On February 1, 1991, id Software was officially, legally born. At the beginning, we were doing games for Softdisk since we kinda left them in a bad spot after leaving so soon after starting the Gamer's Edge disk. To compensate for their loss, we continued to crank out the bi-monthly games and decided to do a sequel to Dangerous Dave called Dangerous Dave In The Haunted Mansion. This was the first game we wrote that had a shotgun in it!

This was a really fun game to make. John kept the Shadow Knights engine that he created while we were at Softdisk and added smoother character movement code. We gave Dave a shotgun (that auto-loads only when he's standing still) and filled a huge mansion with tons of creatures -- all trying to stop Dave on his quest to rescue his brother Delbert! Some might say this game helped spark the idea to do Redneck Rampage...

We knocked this game out in a little under 2 months. There's a ton of levels and monsters in it and it's really great fun -- it has my vote for the best Dave ever created. And it's also the LAST Dangerous Dave that id Software or myself have created, in fact. If you're curious, you should click on the link to Softdisk's online store at the bottom of the page and download it (it's only $10).... it's a real blast!

- by John Romero (original text)