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Posted by StuC on Wednesday 2nd April 2008

Dan Dare

Dan Dare

  • Original details
  • Gang of Five
  • Virgin Interactive, Electronic Arts
  • 1986
  • Ovine game details
  • Stu and Smila
  • Redefinable controls
  • Game downloads and links
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  • Mekon ready
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Dan dare the original Super Hero was being featured on the Earth Broadcasting Corporation “This is you Life” programme.  The invited guests who spoke glowingly of Dan’s achievements, his bravery and compassion, included . . .

His faithfull friend Digby who had shared so many of Dan’s adventures, Professor Peabody, Space Fleet Commander Sir Hubert Guest, Sondor the Venusian ambassador along with his equivalent from every planet in the known universe.

It seemed the whole world had turned out to honour Dan.  Dan Dare, embarrased but deeply moved by these accolades, stepped forward to speak, suddenly the picture on every vid screen in the solar system changed into a series of horizontal lines, slowly clearing to reveal none other than the evil green face of the Mekon.

The Mekon proceeded to tell of his dastardly plan to propel a hollowed out asteroid the size of a minor planet on a collision course with Earth . If the powers that be did not give into his  terms Earth would be eliminated.

If they agreed the asteroid would be harmlessly detonated, Earth would be safe and the Mekon would take over as commander of the universe.They could not give in to the Mekon’s threats but what was the alternative?

In the studio the assembled gathering turned their gaze to one man, Colonel Dan Dare knew what he had to do.

To run Dan Dare in a window -
create a shortcut and add /W at the end of ” target”.

Widescreen users:- By default ascpect is left square.

To use a streeeetch screen create a shortcut and add /STRETCH at the end of ” target”.

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12 Responses to “Dan Dare”

  1. anthony farrell says:

    this game brings back great memories! how do I download it/run it?

    cheers,

    A

  2. shaun says:

    downloaded bruce lee and dan dare but they dont seem to work, any advice you could give would me great thanks

    • StuC says:

      A bit more info would be helpful. Do they just not run ?

      Do you have a sound card installed ?
      Do you have an OPENGL capable graphics card installed ?

      for starters….

  3. dan says:

    genius mate, love this stuff,

    much respect for the time and effort u guys put into it. wish i had your skills.

    do u take requests? – commando was a great game on the c64 :)

  4. smila says:

    yeah i loved commando so who knows …..

    armalyte is well underway now

  5. Dean Demon says:

    Yeah Commando with the arcade levels and not the cut down C64 levels, Amiga version even worse so PLEASE Commando.

  6. roger says:

    wasnt the 48 version better than this there werent any 128 versions were there?
    anyone for sam?

  7. smila says:

    The speccy version was a different game , more of a arcade running/gun game.

    I always prefered the c64 arcade adventure version.

    The amstrad was different again

  8. [...] As well as the original C64 version, this game has also been the subject of a remake for Windows by Ovine by Design. You can get it here. [...]

  9. Jussi says:

    Hi,

    Is Short Circuit going to be remade?

    Jussi

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