Day Dreamin' Davey

Day Dreamin' Davey is an action video game developed by Sculptured Software and published by HAL Laboratory for the Nintendo Entertainment System that uses a third-person overhead perspective.

Day Dreamin' Davey
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Developer(s)	Sculptured Software
Publisher(s)	HAL Laboratory
Designer(s)	Michael Mendheim Hal Rushton
Programmer(s)	Ken Moore
Artist(s)	Les Pardew
Composer(s)	Paul Webb
Platform(s)	NES
Release	NA: June 1992[1]
Genre(s)	Action
Mode(s)	Single-player

Summary

Davey battles thieves in the medieval themed level.

The game is centered around a young boy named Davey who is prone to daydreaming in school.

Throughout the game Davey goes through events during his day at school that cause him to go into daydreams. The very first involves the school bully Lumpy taking his pencil, which causes Davey to daydream that he is in the Middle Ages fighting as a knight looking to regain a lance (which is his pencil in real life). Another involves him falling asleep during art class when told to draw by his teacher and pretending he is in the Wild West, and a third involves him falling asleep during a discussion of Greek civilization which takes him to ancient Greece. These stages repeat throughout the game.

The object of the game is to retrieve certain objects, each of which are shaped like a real-life object from the school such as the lance representing a pencil and the Holy Grail representing a trophy. Each weapon is specific to the time period that Davey visits. Guns and whips are acquired in the Wild West levels while swords and lances are given to the player while playing in the Medieval European period. There are projectile weapons to each time period in addition to melee weapons. The Ancient Greek level found in this game is based on Greek mythology and does not use figures from "actual" Greek history like Plato, Socrates, or Aristotle.

Players can either start a new game or use a password in order to continue a game. When Davey dies, the screen flashes for a split second and Davey utters the word "Bummer" as his death animation. Even though the game is not a role-playing video game, there are still friendly non-player characters to talk to that may give Davey items or just to chat with him.

There are several sections in the game where Davey must shoot the gun out of the hand of an enemy.[2] In these sections, the player can either use the NES controller or the NES Zapper.[3]

Reception

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References

1. "NES Games" (PDF). Nintendo. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 21, 2010. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
2. Cinemassacre (December 30, 2011). "Day Dreamin Davey - Angry Video Game Nerd - Episode 98". YouTube. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
3. "Day Dreamin' Davey". Console Database. Base Media. Retrieved 8 November 2014.