Rick Dangerous is a game that I have fond memories of from my teens. I played it on my Amiga and remember completing it just like it’s sequel Rick Dangerous II. Although it’s not among my favorite platformers from that era, like Putty, Toki and The Addams Family, I certainly haven’t forgotten about it. Maybe because of it’s unforgiving nature and the time I had to spend on it to see it all the way through.

If I had to rank it, I would probably place alongside games like James Pond 2, Nebulus II, Fire and Ice, Prehistorik and The Blues Brothers.

And above Chuck Rock, Zool, B.C. Kid, Super Frog, Scooby and Scrappy Doo, Magic Pockets, Gods and Soccer Kid.

I don’t think I played other platformers back then. I’m not counting puzzle platformers here, like the excellent The Lost Vikings, Magicland Dizzy and P.P. Hammer. And I’m not counting The Last Samurai, Strider, Leander and the Shadow of the Beasts because of the fighting.

I love how writing about an addition to the games collection diverges into something like ranking all the platform games that I played on my Amiga back in the day!

Anyway, back to the game at hand: It’s the disk version for the Commodore 64/128. I would rather have got the Amiga version, but those only sell for ridiculous prices. And the boxes are the same. I wonder if this will escalate into collecting for another subgenre. From the above mentioned games I already have Putty for the Amiga, The Lost Vikings for PC, Magicland Dizzy for the Evercade and Toki and Shadow of the Beast for the Atari Lynx. I would love to have P.P. Hammer, but that one is so expensive, as is Nebulus II. The Addams Family would be a nice SNES addition, as I remember renting and completing it for that system. I don’t think I ever completed it on the Amiga.

Argh, again with the rambling! But I need to pay homage to my domain name, I guess.