Zeus Software

Risky Woods

Unusually for Electronic Arts in the early 90s, this was a platform -shooter game with little or no adventuring or strategy elements. The game scrolls sideways, and has sections where precision jumps are required, either to clear rivers or collect bonuses. You carry a dagger to deal with the enemies, and must avoid contact with them. When killed, they leave coins to be collected - these are spent in the shop sections. Death loses you most of your coins, but they can usually be retrieved if they land on solid ground - making it better to be killed in combat than by drowning.

• Platform
• Adventure
• Arcade
• 1992

Released

31 December 1992

Developer

Zeus Software

Publisher

Electronic Arts

Perspective

Side view

Age rating

PEGI 3

Platforms

Sega Mega Drive/Genesis · Atari ST/STE · PC (Microsoft Windows) · DOS · Amiga

Genres

Platform · Adventure · Arcade

Also known as

Draxos · Nicky Boom - Classic Platformer · Nicky Boom Lite · Nicky Boum