Remember Rick Dangerous?

Way before Lara Croft, back in the 1980's and early 1990's, Rick Dangerous was the Indiana Jones of computer games, running away from rolling rocks, avoiding traps, from South America to a futuristic missile base via Egypt and the Schwarzendumpf castle.

xrick is a clone of Rick Dangerous, known to run on Linux, Windows, BeOs, Amiga, QNX... download and install the game, learn how to play, and enjoy!

If you want to read more about Rick Dangerous, you may want to visit Rick Dangerous Resurrected (english) or Rick Dangerous Forever (french) which, after being dead for a while, seems to be back now.

December 24, 2008

Spent some time getting an AceKard linker, so the children can play xrick DS Lite port. The linker comes from nds worlds, and yes, their site is scary, but everything was delivered smoothly in less than one week.

I realize this site did not link to Simon Phipps. So, from the man himself : Rick Dangerous and Rick Dangerous 2 (yes, I still intend to reverse that one, too. Only, it will have to wait until the children are older and I spend less time replacing destroyed DS Lite touchscreens...).

October 26, 2007

Rick Dangerous meets Ubuntu! Get xrick packages for Gutsy Gibbon here. Many thanks to Pierre-Yves Landuré.

November 8, 2006

Rick Dangerous Flash has moved, go play there.

October 25, 2005

I have absolutely no time to work on xrick, however I had to take a few minutes to add a link to an astonishing port of xrick to... Flash! Play you favorite game in your browser, play Rick Dangerous Flash.

April 20, 2004

Quick update, just to report that I am not dead, but have no time for xrick at the moment ;-|

Others have : some guy next to me in the tube/underground/metro was playing xrick on his cellphone! I knew xrick had been ported to (Windows-based) SmartPhones, now what about this Java "Rick Ranger" for Nokia phones? Did they reversed Rick from scratch, or did they port xrick?

Mmm... they won't tell.

June 20, 2003

A bug has been reported in version #021212: don't touch the jewel in Egypt, or the game will freeze. This is linked to the audio layer (so if you play with -nosound it does not happen) and will be fixed eventually.

About a year ago I sent this email to Core Design in the hope that they may give xrick a legal existence. As of today, it is still unanswered, but in the meantime the Spoutnick Team managed to talk to Core Design about buying a license, so they can release their Game Boy Advanced port. Core Design refused for "internal reasons", whatever that means. So... don't expect xrick to be GPLed soon :-(