Dynamite Dan walkthrough

[TheGsoffer]

Wow, finaly after 30years I can see how this game ends :-)

[0072sy]

Very skillful. My fave Spectrum game. Think it had Mozart's Piano Sonata No 11 as the theme tune!

[SweGunner71]

This game was/is SO hard.. I dont think I ever managed to get more than 2 or 3 dynamites.

[cultofdeath79]

5:48 you fell in the water!! that shoulda been instant game over!!!! good job though :)

[pablod23]

@cultofdeath79 nooooooooooooooooo he takes the spray and with the spray only lost 1 life..

this game it´s imposible without cheats...but i never see the end of the gameee ¡¡¡

[cultofdeath79]

@pablod23 yes but splash in water = lose all lives usually

[pablod23]

@cultofdeath79 yes yes you have right but in 03:11 he takes the spray oxygen....and with the oxygen only lost 1 life when you fall to water...

great game anyway¡¡

[bigcheese2001]

Sound and graphics were pretty superior I thought at the time! Still loved this game :-) Many late nights and tired school mornings spent playing this one :)

[MrMcmokka]

But this is on trainer mode! The thing is, every time he hits a monster, he doesnt lose a life! Give me a real walkthrough, and I'll believe you! This is perhaps the hardest game I've ever played!

[Goair18]

Imagine the coding for this game 0_o

[Goair18]

Woooow youve just brought bk so many memorys, it also confirmerd i had no idea what i was doing when i was playing that game!!!

[nclive1969]

my IQ was too low to ever complete most spectrum games...I just liked wandering around looking at the graphics...same with this one

[amnesiacradar]

I played this game when I was in my teens and I'm now 40, it has to be one of the most difficult games for the Spectrum 48k and you made it look easy! Good work.

[MrOreshkin]

I love this game much! Remember days in latest 80's I played it at home. Greets from St. Petersburg, Russia! :)

[acharya2chn]

Wish we had youtube during my Sinclair ZX Spectrum Days...

Your skill and Game Play kept me glued to the screen. Thanks for the valuable 10 minutes and Best Regards.

[rebufo77]

@acharya2chn Thank you very much. I would have never got that skill if speccy tournament didn't exist.

[praotacdjavo]

Exelent game where i lost million nervs. Respect rebufo.

[SPeacock]

This game is incredibly hard - looks like Jet Set Willy's psychotic brother - but it's fun to play :)

[wuckle]

This was a real tough game and I managed to complete it a couple of times but there were certain bits where I just couldn't figure out waht to do and always lost a life/lives - Thanks to the poster who explained what the coded message was as I never figured that out either - Great Video and Top skills :)

[racrav]

Wow! Well done. But why leave the girl in the vault? I don't know any better it just looked like you could rescue her.

[darkpunk84]

This is my favorite game on the ZX Spectrum ;)

Greeting from Poland :)

[rebufo77]

@darkpunk84  Thank you... the same from Spain :)

[42paparia42]

@rebufo77

Same from Greece...

[DieBittereWahrheit]

jesus what is going on in this game? i just see blinking stuff and weird noises

[jezz2k]

@DieBittereWahrheit.. It's a 2D platformer. This may come as a shock to you but games weren't always in 3D. 8-bit computers had limited capabilites and most games were coded by a single person. They had to be creative in order to get the most out of these machines. If you weren't around in the 1980s or had no interest in games, then you will have missed out on how games evolved.

[Jarren202]

@jezz2k I think you were very harsh to DieBittereWahreit. I am 31, and my childhood is steeped in c64 gaming.

I am not some post-2000 Playstation kid and even I think this game looks totally messed up. In a good way, yes, but still messed up. Kinda like what Jet Set Willy would have looked like if it was programmed by Syd Barrett.

[Jarren202]

@DieBittereWahrheit Haha tell me about it, I think this Sinclair's taken the brown acid!

[myrnaloysboy]

Unbelievable I spend ages and ages trying to even get a few dynamites!!!!

[HorridFroth]

I still can't believe that this was all crammed into 48 KILOBYTES of memory...

[mongomason69]

I wasted the whole of my school holidays locked in my room on my spectrum trying to beat this i almost had a breakdown.Happy days

[RODOLUKOS]

Thats great i love it!!!i remember my youth now when i had zx!!and i was strugling with that beautiful game.awesome!!!!i am thrilled!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gt0703]

Man im happy i found this video, I loved this game when i was a kid, and though u only needed 5 dynamites to unlock the safe. The guy who plays this is so skillful. Hats off to him. I had it on cpc6128

[Smirgelius]

What if you touched the main bad guys? Like the woman in the Top Secret room? Please don't say instant Game Over? :)

[SPeacock]

@Smirgelius You lose a life - and you keep losing them for as long as you're in contact with them.

[rebufo77]

Thank you very much for all your comments!

[42paparia42]

@rebufo77

Same form Greece...

[munimaster]

I've been reading some article about ZX computers when DDan came on my mind. I remember being playing it long time ago, 1988 i think. I was 6yo kid that time, living in communist Czechoslovakia, where only computer worth to buy was Didaktik Gama - our ZX Spectrum clone - and DDan was one of the games available in my town. I enjoyed it a lot even I've never been able to complete it. So thanks for seeing it now, after so many years, it was great.

[equin0x80]

This is just phenomenal play. You weren't using rollback or anything?

[chewymilkybar]

lmao, I have no idea whats going on

[kmp008]

ah, beautiful game - well played and thanks for posting.

I enjoyed this game immensely, never played it through though...

[RamzesXIIIFPPMZ]

I own the C64 version of the game. As a little kid I didn't know the purpose of the game ("What the heck I'm supposed to do?) so I was just exploring. Big and varied game for Manic Miner's fans.

[sonofafitch85]

So... many... sprite... variations! God, they sure liked their enemy types. This is the kind of game I would have spent the five minutes loading for about two minutes play before I decided it was too hard and resetting. But somehow I really liked the whole process you had to go through to play the games, almost as much as playing them... if that makes sense!

[SlappyTheElf]

I never knew it was possible to complete that game!

[Smirgelius]

This game felt extremely difficult and even unfair, but it still did feel remotely possible. This is something I cannot say about another adventuring and collecting game: Cauldron 2.

[vasvas2]

Amazing play grats !

Seems totally amazing how these games were fitted in just 32k of memory.... (48k-16k for screen)

[progrocker69]

I love the seemingly endless parade of different sprites running pell-mell all over the screen, and it's very colorful too. Looks hard as hell. One thing though, the sounds could wake the dead and are just obnoxious beyond description, even by 80s standards.

[ecosse1982]

i cant thank u enough thxz so much wat waz tha prize?

[kerb303]

brings a lot of great memories !!!!

[vjjunk]

Very disappointed. I´ve played it since 88 and never finished it. I´ve expectating a suitable ending, but it´s crap. Oh, my. But, anyway, thanks for showing it and congrats.

[tkhushrenada]

lol, that's the beauty of C64 though. I love hearing people complain about endings to gears of war or halo and stating "it just sets up for another sequel." You just point them at this and they know they have no right to complain =D

[bzikofski]

one of my first games and most favorites all time on C64 (better colours and music but the rest is identical).

very hard to play also.. i am truly impressed by the skill!!! just amazing!!! :)

i was playing Dan on C64 emulator just now (unlimited lives ;) and i wasnt able to pick up the TOP SECRET documents, so i looked up the walkthrough and found this.. when i finally was on the way to win the game i fell into the well and lost my life in the water !!!! :(

thanks so much for this video!!!

[Scrabbler27]

I used to play this in the late 80's and I liked playing this game. I always lose my lives and never finnished to collect all the dynamites. The most I ever collected was 4 which was fantastic. I am glad that I have seen the ending to this popular game. The person who completed this game was excellent player as I thought this game was rock hard.

[saigokun]

Fantastic! I thought I never lived to see the day that this game was beaten. Thanks for posting this.

[thereallocomaniac]

i never thought it was posible to finish this game, ive tried for years and years.

classic game.

[craneywatch]

Darn, finaly somebody showed be what the target of this game and personally completed it for me.

[nippoland]

This game was psycho. It begs the question: since Dan went into that crazy house with the intention of blowing up the safe, why did he not just bring his own dynamite?!?!

(PS - if there was a blimp ride as a prize for winning the game, I can understand why they made it so hard. I think this one time I managed to collect 3 dynamites. That was a great day!)

[Smirkenorff]

This used to be my favpourite game as a child back in the early 80's Man it was so hard, i dont think i ever completed a game on my amstrad due to the togh nature of games like this. Was good to watch this game, i walk into almost every god damn thing thing going.

[smutnapanda]

Superior skill! Even without loosing a single life!! I was also not able win this game :D

[tomakin]

jesus...

[baden1886]

Brilliant. Been trying to complete that game for over 20 years. First time I've seen it done. Fantastic stuff!!

[lukepanda37]

all i can say respect is due loved that game

[urbycoz]

Gotta ask. What IS that anagram at the end- "NRILIMLUG IFOVM LP"

[itstheit]

1. First off, it is NRIILIHLUG IFOVH LP.

2. If you use a mirror alphabet cipher (where a=z, b=y, c=x, etc.), the result is MIRRORSOFT RULES OK.

3. The phone number doesn't work (I suspect because Mirrorsoft is now defunct). The prize, by the way, was a ride in the Mirrorsoft blimp.

4. Acclaim Games is the successor to Mirrorsoft. I'm going to call them on Monday to see if that prize is still valid. Hee, hee.

[Love42se]

great. Loved this game

[SPINNYFUCK]

Great walkthrough of a very hard game.

[djpole76]

this was my favourite game... never walkthrough

[pedroac]

Amazing! This game seemed impossible to win!