Dangerous Dave's Risky Rescue

Dangerous Dave's Risky Rescue is a video game in the action genre developed by Gamer's Edge and published by Softdisk Publishing originally released in 1993. It is currently playable on DOS.

Third game starring a well-known precocious child from SoftDisk's popular Dangerous Dave series, games that gave id Software founders Tom Hall, John Romero and John Carmack considerable fame as the best shareware designers in the business.

Although it is the third game in the series, Dave's Risky Rescue is the second side-scrolling Dangerous Dave game, so it was marketed as Episode 2 of the All New Misadventures of Dangerous Dave series, following Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion. This time around, you'll have to fight your way through more creepy crawlies as Dave tries to rescue his little brother, Delbert, from the castle of the evil Dr. Nemesis.

The game features the same campy humor of the first two games, 11 varied and well-designed challenging levels, and more secret levels that are a lot of fun to discover. After the claustrophobic Dangerous Dave level in The Haunted Mansion, the outdoor scenes in this game are refreshing, and provide excellent backdrops for more diverse monsters and their attacks. Giant spiders come down from trees, and you can jump on tree branches to explore the vertical environment.

Overall, an excellent platformer that truly deserves its cult status. Two thumbs up, way up!

Note: The download here is the original version of Gamer's Edge, correctly titled Episode 2. (Gamer's Edge is the name of the internal division of SoftDisk that the three id designers worked for). An erroneous version of the game also exists, showing Episode 1 on the title screen and the SoftDisk logo instead of Gamer's Edge.

Since the next game, Dave Goes Nutz, is correctly titled Episode 3, (and is the fourth and final game in the series), this error caused many fans to search in vain for the fourth game in the series that does not exist. Hopefully this little anecdote will help dispel a myth, and reassure fans that there were indeed only FOUR Dangerous Dave games made, not five (although John Romero kindly reminded us that if you count all the different versions of the first Dangerous Dave, there are in fact eight games in the series, as claimed on his site. Thanks, John ;))

Dangerous Dave's Risky Rescue is available at a reduced price on the following websites and is no longer abandonware.