Ready for a little NES scramble? Camerica's got the egg! Dizzy, champion of the Yolkfolk, is out to fry an evil egg- stealing magician, courtesy of Camerica's Aladdin NES Game Enhancer. You may recall that ol' Diz is one of England's most popular video game characters. Dizzy the Adventurer crosses the Atlantic bundled with the Enhancer.
Eggs-treme Romance
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- Dizzy is a very playable and funny platform puzzle game. Released originally for Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commdore64 it has now been remade by Crystal fusion.
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Dizzy and Daisy are two young Yolkfolk in love. When Zak the Sorcerer puts Daisy under a sleeping spell, it sends Diz into shellshock. Now he must eggs-ecute Zak and give Daisy a wake-up call.
The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy is the first Dizzy game created directly for PC machines. It was obvious that PC conversions of the games originally made for the Spectrum were not good enough, so the programmers wanted to use the PC's resources to create a better and more challenging game.
Dizzy the Adventurer is a cartoony, side-view, multi-scrolling adventure game. As in previous Dizzy games, you travel around the countryside in search of various items that serve as keys to solving a passel of puzzles and predicaments. Dizzy is a good egg, so many of the problems he encounters have to do with helping other unfortunate characters, such as Leo the Lion, who has a thorn in his paw, and the Juggler, who's lost his balls.
The game isn't organized by stages. You must traipse back and forth across a fantasy landscape that includes a tree- borne neighborhood, a cloud walkway, and two castles.
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- From some ledges, you'll have to make a leap of faith to proceed in the game.
- To reach the upper levels of the tree area, you must jump onto off-screen clouds.
- Whenever you get close to the top of the screen, press A to jump up and look for hidden upper levels like this one.
He Ain't Humpty Dumpty
Dizzy the Adventurer is a hard-boiled puzzler. It's easy enough to find stuff (the countryside is littered with it), but what do you do with Pliers, a Trumpet, Cheese, Logs, an Empty Bucket, a Stick, and a Hole? That's what you have to figure out. However, deciding when and where to use those goodies will scramble your brains. Moreover, you can only hold three items at a time, so you must stash stuff in places where you won't forget about it.
Dizzy was created in 1987 by Andrew and Philip Oliver, collectively known as the Oliver Twins and published by Codemasters. Prior to Dizzy, they had mostly written simulation games for Codemasters such as Grand Prix Simulator, and they were eager to branch out into different types of games. Dizzy is a series of video games, created by the Oliver Twins and published by Codemasters.It was one of the most successful British video game franchises of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Originally created for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, the series appeared on multiple home computer and video game console formats, with over a dozen games being published between 1987 and 1992.
Dizzy's controls are simple and solid. He walks, jumps, and pulls his famous egg roll/forward somersault. Dizzy's no soft-shell hero, either. He takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Water, however, will poach him.
Un-egg-stravagant Looks and Listens
Dizzy's a cute little egg with an award- winning smile. The rest of the graphics are uninspired, though nicely detailed and easy on the eyes. The conversation screens look good, but seeing them once is enough.
The sounds are similarly un-egg- ceptional, but at least they're an easy earful. The music is mellow yellow and good for one listen. The effects are okay, though infrequent.
Eggo-maniacal Action
Dizzy the Adventurer is good, simple fun. Although this is a single-player game, straightforward controls mated to mind-stumping puzzles make it an entertaining game for a kid teamed up with an older player, or for a party of puzzle-solvers. Dizzy is a Grade A game that isn't over easy, and that's no folk.
Overall rating: 6
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Developer(s) | Oliver Twins |
Publisher(s) | Codemasters |
Composer(s) | Matt Gray |
Series | Dizzy |
Platform(s) | NES, MS-DOS, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Amiga, Sega Game Gear, Amiga CD32 |
Release | April 1991 |
Genre(s) | Adventure game |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Fantastic Dizzy (The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy outside Europe & Australia) is a 1991 video game developed by Codemasters. It is part of the Dizzy series. It was published to several platforms, including Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, Nintendo Entertainment System,[1]Amiga and MS-DOS.
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The game was originally intended to be released in time for Christmas in 1990, but because of a legal action between Codemasters and Nintendo over the Game Genie the title was released in April 1991, making it miss the Christmas rush it was originally slated for. Furthermore, only sold 125,000 units instead of the expected 500,000.[citation needed] Despite this, the game was awarded the 'NES Adventure Game of the Year 1991' by Game Players Magazine and given the coveted 'Parents Choice Award'.[citation needed]
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Story[edit]
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The evil wizard Zaks casts a spell on the Yolkfolk and kidnaps Dizzy's girlfriend Daisy.[2] It is up to Dizzy to undo Zaks' doings and rescue Daisy from the castle in the clouds. Ulysses james joyce pdf.
Characters[edit]
Fantastic Dizzy contains all 16 characters in the series. While most of the Yolkfolk were harmed by Zaks, others have different problems. Other characters include Good Wizard Theodore, Blackheart the Pirate, the Palace Guard, Prince Clumsy, Rockwart the Troll, Shamus the Leprechaun and the Shop Owner.[3]
Locations[edit]
There are several places for Dizzy to visit, including the whole complex of the Yolkfolk secret treehouse, the mine, the neighbouring city of Keldor, a pirate ship, a castle, the grasslands, Carber Bay, the cemetery and finally Zaks' Cloud Castle.
The game generally scrolls horizontally, although some mini-games/sections scroll vertically. When Dizzy climbs a ladder or jumps to an off-screen platform, a new screen is loaded. As game play continues, the scenery cycles between night and day.
Concept[edit]
The game is hard to qualify in a genre: while it seems at first a platform game, Dizzy is vulnerable to all enemies while unable to eliminate them, and puzzles are completed by bringing an object to a location (in the same fashion as Gods and adventure games), and also has to capture all 250 stars scattered in the game. The game can also be seen as a union of all the previous games where the player can find a lot of familiar puzzles (e.g. Elevators, magic beans) and places (e.g. mines, deep sea) as well has several arcademinigames based on older games in the series (like Bubble Dizzy).
Stars[edit]
Depending on the version of the game, 100 or 250[4] stars are scattered around the game which must be collected to grant access to the final confrontation with Zaks.[4] While most stars are accessible in the regular parts of the game, some are placed inside the minigames, which forces the player to run through them as many times needed to get all stars. If the player tries to reach the tower without the stars, Dizzy is stunned by the electric door.
Objects[edit]
Dizzy can carry up to three items like keys and objects to be used to solve puzzles.[5] Some objects are meant to be traded to characters, given to characters, or placed in certain locations. Some are used to reach places or things otherwise inaccessible[6] or to protect from danger. This element is similar to the game Puggsy, released for Sega systems.
Minigames[edit]
Astro 25 portable cps latest version software. While most of the game is passed in the slower platform sections, there are three minigames required to complete it, plus one to get all the stars.
- Mine carts: Dizzy can travel in the carts found in the mine into other places in the game, collecting stars along the way. There are a number of dangers in the rails, from falling rocks, dead ends and carts in the opposite direction. Nearing the end, both cart speed and number of dead ends increase.
- Dizzy Down the Rapids: Some versions of Fantastic Dizzy feature a section where Dizzy must ride a barrel down a river avoiding a pursuing troll and several natural hazards while riding surface currents and attempting to collect stars. This minigame is omitted from several versions, including the Mega Drive/Genesis and PC releases.
- Castle Capers: A minigame based on the Operation Wolf concept, Dizzy, armed with a crossbow, has to get a 5 hit advantage over the trolls, who are occupying the castle. However, if the trolls get the same advantage, Dizzy loses a life.
- Bubble Trouble: Dizzy has to reach a small island before his oxygen wears out. To do so, he has to ride air bubbles formed in the sea bed, and jumping into the platforms in the sides or other bubbles before they burst. Larger bubbles endure more, but are slower, while smaller ones are fast but burst shortly after Dizzy rides them. This minigame was adapted into a standalone title, called Bubble Dizzy however due to further development required on Fantastic Dizzy and Dizzy Down the Rapids, Bubble Dizzy was released November 1990.
- Theodore's magic puzzle: The extra life minigame is a regular 4x4 shuffling puzzle, which has to be completed in inside a time limit. As the number of lives increase, so does the complexity of the puzzles.[7]
DAMAGE Layout[edit]
- The game features DAMAGE indicator, as a reverse version of HP. If DAMAGE is filled up, Dizzy loses a life.
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Reception[edit]
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Entertainment Weekly gave the game an A- and wrote that 'Too-cute-for-words Dizzy (an anthropomorphized egg) needs your help to traverse his puzzle-filled kingdom. This game makes you expend IQ points, and the music is funky.'[9]
References[edit]
- ^NES instruction booklet, p. 1
- ^NES instruction booklet, p. 3
- ^Nes instruction booklet, pp. 9-21
- ^ abNES instruction booklet, p. 4
- ^NES instruction booklet, pp. 7-8
- ^NES instruction booklet, p. 6
- ^NES instruction booklet, p. 5
- ^Mega review, issue 13, page 49, October 1993
- ^https://ew.com/article/1992/01/31/latest-video-games-2/
External links[edit]
- Fantastic Dizzy at MobyGames
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