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Hipster Dave starred in Romero's platformers before they were keen.

Dangerous Dave Pack, which includes three classic platformers: Haunted Mansion, Risky Rescue, and Dave Goes Nutz, is now available on GOG.com for only $5.99.

Among the gaming industry legends, John Romero is one of the most colorful and recognizable people. But how well do you know the early works of the man that pitted you against Hitler in Wolfenstein 3D, sent you on a one way trip to demon-infested space station in Doom, and armed you in nine-inch-nail-gun to blast atrocious Shamblers in Quake? Here's your chance to get acquainted with three games from Romero's pre-id Software times. What kind of games? Platformers, of course!

Dangerous Dave Pack features a sizable chunk of platforming history. Dave, a character created by John Romero, runs and guns through three mind-twisting adventures. In Haunted Mansion our hero searches for his brother Delbert, who was trapped in a house filled with ghosts, ghoul, and zombies, that need to be put down back in the ground with Dave's trusty shotgun. In Risky Rescue Delbert is missing again and Dave has to face the evil, skull-faced Doctor Nemesis to get him back. He succeeds, of course, but there's no rest for the wicked--in Dave Goes Nutz our hero has to break free from a mental institution that's crawling with zombies. For the price of one game you get three sets of devious levels full of monsters to blast, traps to be avoided, and shiny diamonds to collect!

Are you up to some classic platforming action? Do you dare to stare into the pixelated abyss of PC EGA-era gaming history? Well then, grab Dangerous Dave Pack for only $5.99.
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Fuzzyfireball: This is Flat Rock Studios, GOG still needs Zenimax for id games.
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kalirion: Wait, according to Wikipedia, Zenimax also owns Arcane Studios, so if Arx Fatalis is here, what's keeping back the id/Bethesda stuff???
They want to make it as confusing as possible for us :)
Never heard of, but i dont think il buy it either way
Backlog and wishklist needs to srhink.
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Fuzzyfireball: This is Flat Rock Studios, GOG still needs Zenimax for id games.
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kalirion: Wait, according to Wikipedia, Zenimax also owns Arcane Studios, so if Arx Fatalis is here, what's keeping back the id/Bethesda stuff???
Arx Fatalis was published by JoWood
Very nice GOG! I remember talking about this several months back, too. (I actually emailed a Flat Rock person, and he mentioned you guys had worked out a deal.)

I hope we see at least one more old game (unless you want to count this pack as two old games; hopefully not) this week as last week only had one iirc. I'd like you guys to keep up the average even as you release new games.

EDIT: I'm hoping to see at least a 4:6 ratio of old games, new games on the "New Releases" panel.
Post edited October 30, 2012 by tfishell
Looks neat. Reminds me of this :P
Thank you, GOG and Flat Rock! Can't get now, but will keep an eye on this, especially during a later sale... the crew who formed iD were quite adept even with the early platformers.

Question - does Flat Rock also own the rights to Keen Dreams? I don't know what the exact relation is between Flat Rock and Softdisk, but I believe the latter game was published by Softdisk back in the day and that's why it's not on Steam in the Keen pack...

I also hope for many, many more "good old" releases. As an aside, I wish GOG would just make the Mac releases alongside the Windows release from here on out for DOS and SCUMM games... but at least they're Mac-ifying several Interplay games as part of that promotion.

Sorry for the lack of focus in this post!
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EverettLamb: Looks neat. Reminds me of this :P
That was my thought also even though I haven't played the old Duke Nukem platformers. I wonder what's been keeping more Apogee games from coming to GOG.
Very neat, I will of course be waiting for a sale but an excellent release nonetheless.
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HoneydewHuey: Question - does Flat Rock also own the rights to Keen Dreams? I don't know what the exact relation is between Flat Rock and Softdisk, but I believe the latter game was published by Softdisk back in the day and that's why it's not on Steam in the Keen pack...
It's pretty weird, it would seem Flat Rock owns the Softdisk catalog, but the only ones they sell of their official store are Dave and Catacombs so it's hard to tell for sure.
Dangerous Dave is awesome. Say, how about you guys make this tomorrow's gem promo? What, too soon?
Dangerous Dave is not a bad game but I'd much rather have Bio Menace - that was a far superior platform game and is still a lot of fun today. In fact, I only discovered the game in 1995 and when I discovered Dosbox, it was one of the first games I played (although the older Dosbox versions made it crash <.<).
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Red_Avatar: Dangerous Dave is not a bad game but I'd much rather have Bio Menace - that was a far superior platform game and is still a lot of fun today. In fact, I only discovered the game in 1995 and when I discovered Dosbox, it was one of the first games I played (although the older Dosbox versions made it crash <.<).
Bio Menace is freeware :D http://www.3drealms.com/downloads.html
My childhood! So good to see you again.
Good to see one of great old game series on here. Why not pack doesn't include first Dave? Is it freeware?
Looks good, reminds me of the early Duke Nukem platformers. I've always sucked at playing them, but had lots of fun. And it's old. Great release GOG!