But, by a wonderful twist of fate he lands right 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 tiers 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 make the mistake of thinking it is easy.Rick Dangerous is not not an easy platorm game, whether you play the remake or play the original on the Amiga.

Oh the memories of platform games come rushing in when I recollect my fondest of them all – Rick Dangerous as the main character. Undoubltly based right on the hero himself made famous by the movies.With giant stone boulders chasing you in the first five seconds of the game.What was the name of our hero? A young Indian Jones?  No… It was none other than Core Designs Rick Dangerous.It really was the reason I still, to this day, love my trusty Amiga 500 so very much.So much that I couldn’t stop myself from buying an Amiga 500 online after close to 10 years of having sold mine.

fine, I am assuming a lot, and assuming that everyone reading this will have heard of or player Rick Dangerous.For the people that have not, here is a quick explanation. 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. subsequently it was released with two other games – Stunt Car Racer and Microprose Soccer on the Commodore 64 Powerplay 64 cartridge.I don’t want to go over the packed in games – instead, I want to focus on the main Rick Dangerous itself!) 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?How could it, in any way, be even close to 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 countless newer generation platform games.Mo than that though, if you think about it, it is because what is old is once again new. 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 assorted 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 is largely based on the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Set in 1945, British agent Rick Dangerous travels to the Amazon jungle to search for the lost Goolu tribe. The airplance crash lands in the middle of the jungle and Rick has nowhere to go, but has to get there was in order to escape the Goolu tribe. When the game starts Rick finds himself in a cave running from a rolling boulder, a famous scene from the Indiana Jones movie.

Armed with a pistol and dynamite, Rick must fight hostiles and evade countless traps in 3 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. Therefore, 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.