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Dynamite Dan II

Dynamite Dan II: Dr Blitzen and the Islands of Arcanum is a platform game and the sequel to 1985's Dynamite Dan. It was written for the ZX Spectrum by Rod Bowkett and published by Mirrorsoft. An Amstrad CPC port was released the same year.

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Dynamite Dan II
PublisherMirrorsoft
DesignerRod Bowkett1
ProgrammersZX Spectrum
Rod Bowkett
Amstrad CPC
Keith Goodyer1
PlatformsAmstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum
Release1986
GenrePlatform
ModeSingle-player

Dynamite Dan II: Dr Blitzen and the Islands of Arcanum is a platform game and the sequel to 1985's Dynamite Dan. It was written for the ZX Spectrum by Rod Bowkett and published by Mirrorsoft.1 An Amstrad CPC port was released the same year.

Reception

CRASH gave a 93% review2 Readers chose it as the best platform game of the year.3

Your Sinclair rated it 9 out of 10.4 Reviewers were impressed with the graphical and sound effect improvements over the original game, and the fun gameplay.

References

References

  1. Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers".
  2. Dynamite Dan 2 review from CRASH issue 32, September 1986; retrieved from Crash Online
  3. "CRASH 38 - Readers' Awards".
  4. Dynamite Dan 2 Archived 2007-08-07 at the Wayback Machine review from Your Sinclair issue 9, September 1986; retrieved from The Your Sinclair Rock 'n' Roll Years
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