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

Trivia

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The Dangerous Dave series was a hugely popular game in Indian and Pakistani school systems.

External links

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• John Romero's site: The Saga of Dangerous Dave
• John Romero's site: The Apple II original Dangerous Dave
• John Romero's site: Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement
• S&F Prod.'s Dangerous Dave page
• Dangerous Dave PC Walkthrough

1988 computer and video games | Apple II games | DOS games | id Software games | Platform games

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