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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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VIPERs: Hmm, why is the best one (for me), the original Danegrous Dave missing?
I haven't downloaded it, but at the bottom of this page the publisher has a download called "Gamer's Edge Sampler" that says it has the very first Dangerous Dave game for free:
http://www.downloadstore.com/
Post edited October 30, 2012 by SCPM
Wow! Great news! I didn't think I would ever see Dangerous Dave games on GOG.
So this is GOG's first id title?
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gandalf.nho: These are real classics, and with Softdisk here soon we will see Catacombs 3D and maybe Rescue Rover.
Even though id never seemed to care much about the Rescue Rover games, I think they were actually pretty solid puzzle games. I'd also be happy to pick up a Catacomb/Hovertank pack.
HOOOOOLEEEEEEE SHIIIIIIIITTTTTTT

I wasn't expecting much today since usually the big stuff releases on Thursday but wow

THIS game is a true classic, I remember playing it when I was like 8 years old

Awesome to see that additional packs/episodes are included as well
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DodoGeo: So this is GOG's first id title?
No, this is a Softdisk title, the first iD titles weren't until later on. Good news though, I'm guessing that we can expect to get more goodies in the future as the Softdisk back catalog has a lot of very good games available.
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VIPERs: Hmm, why is the best one (for me), the original Danegrous Dave missing?
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SCPM: I haven't downloaded it, but at the bottom of this page the publisher has a download called "Gamer's Edge Sampler" that says it has the very first Dangerous Dave game for free:
http://www.downloadstore.com/
Hum, Flatrock's page only had the Dangerous Dave and Catacombs series, maybe they don't have rights to Rescue Rover and Hovertank 3D
Neato. I think I never played Dangerous Dave but I played many platformers from the same DOS-era and liked them a lot. Perfect!
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lol, out of all of Romero's games you pick one he ISN'T well-known for? the guy's a legend, but not because of this...
Post edited October 30, 2012 by Fred_DM
Oh, I just noticed, there's - for want of a better word - a typo at the start of the article; 'Dave Goes Nuts' should be spelled with a z...
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Fred_DM: lol, out of all of Romero's games you pick one he ISN'T well-known for? the guy's a legend, but not because of this...
They need a contract with Zenimax first to be able to sell id Software games here
Post edited October 30, 2012 by gandalf.nho
Holy fucking hell, now this was unexpected!
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VIPERs: Hmm, why is the best one (for me), the original Danegrous Dave missing?
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SCPM: I haven't downloaded it, but at the bottom of this page the publisher has a download called "Gamer's Edge Sampler" that says it has the very first Dangerous Dave game for free:
http://www.downloadstore.com/
Or you can download it directly from John Romero's page, but it's a bit of a pain as it's the Apple ][ version.

http://www.rome.ro/games_dangerous_dave.php
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DodoGeo: So this is GOG's first id title?
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hedwards: No, this is a Softdisk title, the first iD titles weren't until later on. Good news though, I'm guessing that we can expect to get more goodies in the future as the Softdisk back catalog has a lot of very good games available.
Now at least I know why Keen Dreams isn't in the Steam Commnder Keen pack.
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hedwards: No, this is a Softdisk title, the first iD titles weren't until later on. Good news though, I'm guessing that we can expect to get more goodies in the future as the Softdisk back catalog has a lot of very good games available.
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DodoGeo: Now at least I know why Keen Dreams isn't in the Steam Commnder Keen pack.
Yeah, but the lack of CK 6 still confuses me.