Dangerous Dave

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Dangerous Dave
Developer(s) John Romero
Release date(s) 1988
Genre(s) Platform game
Mode(s) Single Player
Platform(s) MS-DOS

Dangerous Dave is a 1988 computer game by John Romero. It was developed for the Apple II and DOS as an example game to accompany his article about his GraBASIC, an Applesoft BASIC add-on, for the UpTime disk magazine.

Since the original 1988 publishing of Dangerous Dave on UpTime, there have been three sequels and three ports of the original to other platforms.

  • Dangerous Dave (Apple II), 1988, Apple II, 6-color, UpTime (the original)
  • Double Dangerous Dave, 1990, Apple II, 16-color, Softdisk (16 color port of the 1988 original)
  • Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement, 1990, DOS, EGA, non-published (the demo that launched Commander Keen and id Software)
  • Dangerous Dave (PC), 1990, DOS (CGA, EGA, VGA), Softdisk (DOS version of the 1988 original)
  • Dangerous Dave GS, 1990, Apple //gs, never completed (//gs version of the 1988 original)
  • Dangerous Dave In The Haunted Mansion, 1991, DOS / EGA, Softdisk
  • Dangerous Dave's Risky Rescue, 1993, DOS, EGA, Softdisk
  • Dave Goes Nutz!, 1993, DOS, EGA, Softdisk

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The Dangerous Dave series was a hugely popular game in Indian, Pakistani and Israeli school systems[citation needed]

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