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Or if you'd rather get first-hand experience rather than watching a Youtube video, you can actually play most of the games directly on the Oliver Twins' website (the Olivers being the creators, of course).

So I originally had a longer post here filled with egg puns but... fuck it, for once I don't wanna be autistic. The best way to describe Dizzy games is Metroid, but if they were about finding out where to use items instead of shooting things. They're way more fun than I expected them to be.

I imagine this series will be familiar to people from the UK as Dizzy was more popular there. We yanks didn't really get much exposure.

Also there's a fansite with tons of fan-made games using something called the DizzyAGE engine. I can confirm a lot of these work fine on Windows 10, I don't know about Linux or Windows 11. I'm kind of impressed with how many of these there are, actually.
 
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There's also a bunch of Russian Dizzy homebrews because bootleg Spectrums were super popular there.
All thanks to the ULA being a cheap bundle of wires!
 
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For some reason, I was expecting anything other than the Oliver twins Dizzy. Like the Guilty Gear Dizzy or some lolcow I've never heard of.

So now I'm like "pheeeeew"
 
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skykiii said:
Also there's a fansite with tons of fan-made games using something called the DizzyAGE engine. I can confirm a lot of these work fine on Windows 10, I don't know about Linux or Windows 11. I'm kind of impressed with how many of these there are, actually.
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The remake for Prince of the Yolkfolk (titled as "Dizzy the Adventurer" on the NES) sucks. Stars and cherries aren't picked up automatically, the controls are even slippier than the NES version, and I miss this music. It IS closer to the Amiga version, though, but you don't have to manually grab stars and cherries in that one.
 
I love how its like, three people knew what this thread was about and everyone else was like "Oh I thought this was about some random person or fighting game character named Dizzy."

I'm surprised nobody thought this thread was about Dizzy Devil from Tiny Toons.
 
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The remake for Prince of the Yolkfolk (titled as "Dizzy the Adventurer" on the NES) sucks. Stars and cherries aren't picked up automatically, the controls are even slippier than the NES version, and I miss this music. It IS closer to the Amiga version, though, but you don't have to manually grab stars and cherries in that one.
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In general one thing I notice that is kinda headscratching is the Amiga versions tend to go overlooked. Like that fan-made Dizzy engine has remakes of all the main games... and they're all based on the Spectrum versions.

I remember specifically one of them (I believe it was Spellbound Dizzy) even had an extra room on Amiga that's not on the Spectrum (its right near the beginning--the Amiga version adds platforms you can use to get across the water to a hidden alcove with items. I saw nothing like this on Speccy).

And yes I found that despite only playing the opening screens of both versions. Insert predictable "Spectrum" jokes here ;)

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Fun fact -- Apparently Treasure Island Dizzy's infamous "one life then you have to start the whole game over" design choice was because the Twins realized there was softlock potential due to the Snorkel, but couldn't find a way to fix it. There's a 2023 fan remake now that comes up with a solution--the Snorkel is simply permanently in your inventory once you pick it up.
 
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skykiii said:
Fun fact -- Apparently Treasure Island Dizzy's infamous "one life then you have to start the whole game over" design choice was because the Twins realized there was softlock potential due to the Snorkel, but couldn't find a way to fix it. There's a 2023 fan remake now that comes up with a solution--the Snorkel is simply permanently in your inventory once you pick it up.
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Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh.


More on topic, I was very surface-level involved in the Dizzy-AGE scene, but only because a perpetually drunk Russian nigga (rip) went over to me and said "you know English, maybe you could help translate this entire script to Russian" - and I did the most relatively low-effort translation I could, because I haven't had the game on hand.

That being said, the ZX Spectrum got a couple remasters of Crystal Kingdom Dizzy (7) and a whole new title that's... not made by the Oliver twins, but rather screenwritten by them - that being Wonderful Dizzy.
 
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Scarthew said:
ye I know dizzy. Those old pc games are too jank for even me though. Like the original duke nukem, cant do it.

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the original Dukes had tight level design and controls, Dizzy looks good but controls like shit, not to mention that hateful-player mechanics. Surprised no one posted the Sseth video:
 
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