Classic 80s video game mascot Dizzy celebrates his 30th birthday today. His first outing, Dizzy - The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure was released in 1987, a fact that should make some of us feel more than a little bit old!
To mark the occasion, the plucky egg's creators, Phillip and Andrew Oliver have released a brand new Dizzy game named Mystery World Dizzy.
The game is free to play right now on the Mystery World Dizzy website, but true fans will at some point be able to purchase physical NES carts containing a working version of the game via the Mystery World Dizzy Kickstarter campaign.
The page also contains a link to the NES ROM file yolkfolk.com/fla…nes for you to play offline with a NES emulator. Thanks to R37R0 for the heads up!
All comments (44)
BuzzDuraband
8 Apr 17#1
Seriously. One of those times you wish you could add heat multiple times. Massive heat man, thanks for the heads up!
Maverick77
8 Apr 17#2
Wow I used to love Dizzy. Many Thanks!
JohnnyRoller
8 Apr 17#3
Dizzy was my all-time favourite game as a kid. I had all of them. My favourite was the 2 in 1 cart on the Megadrive with Fantastic Dizzy and Cosmic Spacehead.... Both awesome.
R37R0
8 Apr 17#4
The page also contains a link to the NES ROM file yolkfolk.com/fla…nes for you to play offline with a NES emulator
BuzzDuraband
8 Apr 17#5
Mine looked like this...
Snakeyes646
8 Apr 17#6
Loved it, me and my best pal played some of the Dizzy games for days on end. The pic below is my fave game in the collection & i played it non stop on the C64. (pic isnt my game)
JohnnyRoller
8 Apr 17#7
I had all of them lol, I know what they looked like! My first computer was the zx spectrum... and what a computer it was.
BuzzDuraband
8 Apr 17#8
That upgrade from the 48k to the 128k. Them feels! better than the 360 to the One :grin:
Darryl2312
9 Apr 17#9
Heat, thanks! The speccy days, the good old days where my love of gaming started, £2.99 a game, new one every Saturday after my paper round, life was so much better then...
m.ad
9 Apr 17#10
Treasure Island was evil! One life for the whole game! But I must say, it may have been the most frustrating, but also the most satisfying when you finished it. Before Dark Souls, there was this...
Loved Dizzy. Even traced characters from the Yolkfolk and made my own Dizzy lunchbox for school. Nobody at school knew what Dizzy was, but I just knew they were missing out. Getting on this!
m.ad
9 Apr 17#11
I'm stuck already. Anyone know the number to call for the solution? :stuck_out_tongue:
Noobster101
9 Apr 17#12
This is amazing news, as a youngster Dizzy is the game i used to play. Remember getting the cassette from the local cornershop
hamsterpig
9 Apr 17#13
I had Dizzy collection on Amstrad, if I remember rightly Fantasy World was my favourite X)
retrogamer
9 Apr 17#14
Takes me back. I remember they used to sell these cassettes in places like Superdrug and Tandys.
kingmonkey69
9 Apr 17#15
The games were rock hard and I was **** at them, but they were excellent non the less!
InsaneNutter
9 Apr 17#16
I had Dizzy Prince of The Yolkfolk on the Amiga, I loved the game however don't think i ever managed to finish it. The internet for most people was not really a thing back then, so unless a magazine had a guide or a friend could help then you were out of luck! No GameFaqs, No Gaming Forums / Fan Websites, No Youtube lol. Good times though :smile:
m.ad
9 Apr 17#17
Yolkfolk was remade for iOS and Android a few years ago :smile:
reddragon105
9 Apr 17#18
Not the first time this has happened - they also remade Magicland Dizzy as Wonderland Dizzy for the NES in 1993, which didn't get released until 2015 when they rediscovered the source code. That also got a physical cartridge release.
But am I the only one who is old enough to have played these games back in the day but didn't because an egg with a face really creeped me out?
phlroy
9 Apr 17#19
Yeah. I used to love spending 10 minutes loading it up only for it to crash,happy days lol
gavvybiggs
9 Apr 17#20
Great days. Had it on my Speccy and also played it a lot on my mate CPC464 (think that's what it was called)
aLV426
9 Apr 17#21
Such an iconic game - I know the guy that did the original artwork and I feel so old now!
beefkr10z
9 Apr 17#22
TO THE KICKSTARTER PAGE!!!
(Still waiting for my Dreamworlds Pogie KS cart to arrive!)
gap30
9 Apr 17#23
I had a CPC464
Always remember a game called animal vegetable mineral
Moonwolf1976
9 Apr 17#24
I wasn't rich enough for an Amstrad with the built in cassette deck like you. :smile:
Mine was like this:>
robcrazee
9 Apr 17#25
Vestel.....my god they made tv's back in the 80's :dizzy_face:
Going to play this for the next few night cheers for the heads up :smile:
fl3tch3r85
9 Apr 17#26
Brings back memories...Thanks for the post
kDelta
9 Apr 17#27
"To play this game, please, download the latest Flash player!"
madforret
9 Apr 17#28
Wish I could keep adding heat every 24 hours. Dizzy was my childhood gaming icon before I'd even heard of Mario. So great to have a "new" adventure to enjoy (new to us at least even though the code is 20 years old!). :grin:
danstewart
9 Apr 17#29
If only this came with the whole DRM code wheel you had to use to get the loading code! Loved Dizzy but give me some Golden Axe side scrolling action any day. Remember that was the first game that gave me the experience of being in an arcade at home!
Snakeyes646
10 Apr 17#30
whoa this got hot =D
format
10 Apr 17#31
i think i could still complete treasure island dizzy by muscle memory 20 years later :worried: also probably one of the first games i bootlegged on my grans 2-deck tape player :smile:
hotfinder
10 Apr 17#32
Codemasters need to make Treasure Island Dizzy Rally, Micro Dizzy Machines or at least put some easter 'eggs' in their games. :grin:
APMerry
10 Apr 17#33
The nostalgia is strong in this one
coyote
10 Apr 17#34
Oh Yes!!!!
Played Dizzy to death on the old C64
XP200
11 Apr 17#35
Speccy owners, BAH, Amstrad cpc 464 all the way, hate speccy owners and their rubber keyboards. :stuck_out_tongue:
morocco1
11 Apr 17#36
I got you on that. Treasure Island was BRUTAL. I think it was that which taught me my colourful vocabulary - having to come out of the water to drop everything and pick them up in a different order to make sure I didn't drop my scuba gear while trying to pick something else up. And then when I finally reached the guy at the end and he told me I couldn't leave until I gave him all of the coins in the game, some of which were invisible... I was fixing to put my foot through the screen and send Codemasters the bill.
cicobuff
11 Apr 17#37
People actually liked the Dizzy games :neutral_face:
I remember these games on a C64. More excitement wondering if they would load successfully rather than play the game. Often it took longer to load than you played before you got bored.
Anyone remember the technique of starting a load then leaving the room to make sure no vibrations effected the datasette so that games loaded?
cicobuff
11 Apr 17#40
Never personally had that problem, I have more the memory of twiddling the screw to ensure azimuth tape alignment to avoid errors loading the games, or borrowing TDK D90s off friends with games on them saved out with a totally different head alignment than your own deck and frustratingly trying to get those to load.
ykhan16
12 Apr 17#41
Oh gosh this is taking me back! I had a C64 back in the day- still remember those hypnotic strobing load up screen! *__*
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Opening post
To mark the occasion, the plucky egg's creators, Phillip and Andrew Oliver have released a brand new Dizzy game named Mystery World Dizzy.
The game is free to play right now on the Mystery World Dizzy website, but true fans will at some point be able to purchase physical NES carts containing a working version of the game via the Mystery World Dizzy Kickstarter campaign.
The page also contains a link to the NES ROM file yolkfolk.com/fla…nes for you to play offline with a NES emulator. Thanks to R37R0 for the heads up!
All comments (44)
Seriously. One of those times you wish you could add heat multiple times. Massive heat man, thanks for the heads up!
Mine looked like this...
Loved Dizzy. Even traced characters from the Yolkfolk and made my own Dizzy lunchbox for school. Nobody at school knew what Dizzy was, but I just knew they were missing out. Getting on this!
But am I the only one who is old enough to have played these games back in the day but didn't because an egg with a face really creeped me out?
Yeah. I used to love spending 10 minutes loading it up only for it to crash,happy days lol
(Still waiting for my Dreamworlds Pogie KS cart to arrive!)
Always remember a game called animal vegetable mineral
Mine was like this:>
Going to play this for the next few night cheers for the heads up :smile:
Played Dizzy to death on the old C64
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Anyone remember the technique of starting a load then leaving the room to make sure no vibrations effected the datasette so that games loaded?