Dan Dare III: The Escape (1990)
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Dan Dare III: The Escape was released in 1990 for the ZX Spectrum 48K. The game was published by Virgin Games Ltd and developed by David Perry, Nick Bruty, and Simon Butler.
This title is a single-player arcade adventure. It supports Kempston and Interface 2 joysticks, cursor keys, and redefinable keyboard controls. The game originally began development as Crazy Jet Racer, but the team later rebranded it to feature the protagonist from the Eagle Magazine comic series.
The cassette version was priced at £9.99, while the disk version retailed for £14.99. In addition to the ZX Spectrum, the game was released on the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Amiga, and Atari ST.
The game received an average review score of 87.4%. It earned the Crash Smash award from Crash magazine and the Sinclair User Classic award from Sinclair User.
In the USSR, the game gained popularity through numerous cracked cassette versions released by groups such as Andrew Strikes Code, Atossoft, and SA-Software. Players often encountered editions featuring GEMA protection, while documentation was frequently circulated on disk-based media.
Found 12 cracked versions (releases) of the game
