The R4 DS Card Puts Rick Dangerous On Your NDS

Rick Damgerous lands his airplane in the amazon while seaching for a lost tribe by the name of Goolu…

But, by a wonderful twist of fate he lands properly on your Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi, with the help of homebrew programmers and the trusty R4 DS Card for the Nintendo DS / DSi system.Can you help and save Rick Dangerous and guide him through the levels to escape the angry Amazonians? I think you can. With the help of your R4 DS and your stylus for the Nintendo DS, you’ll be running through each level with ease…But don’t think that you’ll have an easy time. Rick Dangerous, whether on the Nintendo DS or the original Amiga version, is not an easy platform game, and well worth the time and effort that you put into playing the game.

One of my fondest memories of platform games came in the form of an really short Indian Jones style main character. Undoubltly based right on the hero himself made renowned by the movies.With a huge boulder rolling after you on the first level of the game.And who was this short hero? A young Indian Jones?  No… It was none other than Core Designs Rick Dangerous.It was one of the reasons I love my old Amiga 500 so much. Enough that I picked one up on eBay 10 years after I sold my original Amiga 500.

O.K., I am assuming a lot, and assuming that everyone reading this will have heard of or player Rick Dangerous.For those of you that haven’t, here is VERY quick run down. Rick Dangerous is a platform game developed by Core Design for the Amiga, Atari ST, and 8-Bit computers, as well as for DOS based PCs. It was put out in EU by Rainbird Software and MicroProse in North America back in 1989. later on it was released with two other games – Stunt Car Racer and Microprose Soccer on the Commodore 64 Powerplay 64 cartridge. We won’t dwell on the packed in games, and focus only on Rick Dangerous itself (or himself, for those of us with Fond memories!) and how you can play it using an R4 DS Card with your Nintendo DS.

So why talk about a game that was release back in 1989?It is completely relevant and quite possible a reason that you’re playing what you’re playing now. Well, if you know anything about challenging platform games, or are into platform games, you’re reading about the grandfather of platform games Really. Many of the elements from this game have been incorporated into unnumberable newer generation platform games.More so than that, it has a lot to do with what is old becoming new again. With the help and dedication of homebrew programmers that make or remake games for the pure love and joy of it. You can, with the help of an R4 DS Card, play Rick Dangerous on your current generation hand held Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi consoles. And it won’t cost you a cent, because the game is released absolutely FREE. Non commercially, and available for download for your to enjoy on your NDS system (and various other systems as well) All you’ll need is an R4 for Nintendo DS for Nintendo DS and the NDS itself of course.

The game was Basically a comic version of the Idiana Jones Franchise. Set in 1945, British agent Rick Dangerous travels to the Amazon jungle to search for the lost Goolu tribe. His plane crashes in the jungle, and Rick must escape from the enraged Goolu. Much like the famous scene in the Indiana Jones Movie, Rick Dangerous starts his adventure trying to outrun a huge rolling boulder.

All you have in your armoury arw a few sticks or dynamite and a pistol, and you hav to fight all of the baddies and evade countless traps in three more levels. The second level is set inside a Great Pyramid in Egypt. On Level Three, You and Rick need to take a trip to the Nazi Stronghold of Schwarzendumpf to save the captured Allied soldiers. The rescued soldiers tell him that the Nazis are planning a missile attack on London. consequently, in the last level Rick must infiltrate their secret missile base.

The original garnered fantastic reviews. Many magazines giving the game 92% or more in the reviews. And I am certain of the R4 DS card version / homebrew version for the Nintendo DS / DSi were ever released commercially, it would garner the same type of reviews, for both its retro look and feel and amazing gameplay. The really amazing thing about this is that it is not a commercial release, and that this free homebrew version has the blessing of the original developers as well.

So get out your Nintendo DS, buy an R4 DS Card and start exploring the amazing world of Rick Dangerous and other great homebrew games for the Nintendo DS system.