Loved Dizzy when I was a kid on the commodore 64

Was hoping when you said it was made available for free that i would be able to download it and play in a NES emulator but its played online. Still cool though so heat added :smiley:

Thanks for the info. It didn't show up at work.

Great news, I used to love Dizzy on the Spectrum, they were really great games and Codemasters seemed to be able to get great (for the time) colour graphics out of the Speccy where as many other just resorted to black and white (or some other two tone system).

Magicland Dizzy was my favourite of the classic 8 bit titles (though it actually made it to the Amiga too), but Fantastic Dizzy on Megadrive was superb too and showed just how good a true 16 bit Dizzy title could look. Really sad they never continued though with the mounting pressure to go 3D and the fact that Dizzy wasn't considered cool enough anymore I can understand it, I suppose.

Shame (apart from the tiny Android re-imaging of prince of Yolkfolk) we haven't seen a proper all new modern Dizzy, now that the market has matured and 2D titles are welcomed as much as 3D the market is ripe for a new Dizzy game, not a full price AAA release obviously but would make a great mobile (not IAP please!) or console/steam download release.

Ooh those retro memories flood back.

Wow, I loved playing the Dizzy games on Spectrum all those years ago. The site even lets you play all the old games online too, great find. Really interesting story how this game was re-discovered too. Heat added

Love to hear stories of this, reminds me of Putty Squad a couple of years ago when the Amiga version thought incomplete was finally released for free.

I never managed to finish Dizzy 2. It was always crashing my C64 when you were getting to the certain point. Today I was trying to play that game online and it seems to be full version. Finally after 20 years I will be able to finish the game.

many a happy day spent playing this and rainbow islands and there was a amazing game called creatures i think made by thalamus! that was a amazing game.

Ah the childhood memories.

Had all the dizzys on the commodore 64 loved them :smirk:

Had no idea this had been announced! Just got myself the physical NES cart backer reward, only 3 left now! :sunglasses:

Brilliant stuff. I've been making my way through the Dizzy games this last year or so via the various emulators on my old GP2X. So far I've finished:
Original Dizzy on the ZX Spectrum (which is the one I first played as a youngster).
Treasure Island Dizzy (Dizzy II) on the Nes. It's on the Quattro Adventure/Super Adventure Quests collection.
Fantasy World Dizzy (Dizzy III) on the C64. I actually thought there was something wrong with the game when I went down the well and Dizzy appeared upside down with the controls reversed.
Dizzy The Adventurer (from the Excellent Dizzy Collection) on the Sega Master System. Also known as Dizzy Prince of the Yolkfolk.

I've been really enjoying playing them again (and playing ones I didn't own). They have brought back some good memories, although I don't recall finishing any of them as a kid. Saying that, I'm making heavy use of savestates to get through them now. I've just started Magicland Dizzy on the ZX Spectrum and Fantastic Dizzy on the Megadrive. It looks great on the Megadrive with the day/night cycles and varying weather.
Thanks for posting this. I've just tried the nes rom and it works fine on the GP2X nes emu (GPFCE), so it looks like I've got one more to play, making it five left to complete.