The 10 Best Dizzy Games In Order Of Greatness
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มี.ค. 2023
- Hey whatsup Guys OSG here with another patreon request and this time it’s the top 10 Dizzy games in order of greatness. As im not a massive Dizzy fan this was a bit difficult for me but with help from a top bloke called 25Clannsman I have put together a list that I hope satisfies the Patreon request from Steve Paterson. Anyway love em or hate them Dizzy games where everywhere when we were younger and most people will have played at least one in their lives.
So without more delay lets take a look a the 10 best Dizzy games including what system they are best on in order of greatness
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Back in the day I had most of the Dizzy adventure games on Amstrad and Amiga but that extra colour makes such a difference on the Speccy...and Dizzy looks mouldy on the CPC.
Love them on Amiga too but I felt they were that little bit better and more at home on the 8-Bits.
I always played them on my own as my best friend Ollie didn't like Dizzy and we played stuff like Gauntlet, Renegade, Gryzor etc...I loaded Dizzy the moment he sodded off lol
Spot on video OSG and I'm glad to have been of some help. Ta for the mention fella :-)
Thanks again for your help mate :-)
This video brought me back to sitting in my mate’s living room as kids with his trusty Spectrum 48k, putting in the hours on Treasure Island Dizzy. Good times😁
well then my work is complete as thats what this channel is all about
Never knew Dizzy was on the master system.
That one was on the Megadrive too
Finally, a new OSG video. And about Dizzy of all things. This made my Friday Night.
sorry mate, had loads on in my personal life..im back on it now though
im pretty sure all these games are on the amiga but none made your list ?. wow im in shock
I think the Amiga versions were great looking i.e. disnt have see through graphics but the gameplay wasnt as good, it was too slow and clunky
Loved playing dizzy games as a kid. Great list. One of my favourites wasn’t there. Bubble Dizzy on the C64. Used to play it for hours. Treasure island dizzy was the first one I ever played.
Clanny had Bubble Dizzy in but I wasnt convinced ....
You must be unaware of the Dizzy Act passed in Parliament in 1998 which states any top list of Dizzy games must have Treasure Island Dizzy on the Amiga at number one.
The dizzy games seem to have passed me by. I think I'd moved onto the Mega drive by the time they surfaced
The number 10 game was on the Megadrive too and actually pretty good
Awesome video Paul! I didn't know some of these existed but I'm.glad Treasure Island Dizzy made the list. I had that on the C64 and could never complete it as a kid. I have since though!
Thank you so much for seeing this through OSG you have made my year 👍😆😎. So many fond memories of these games playing on the green screen of my mates Amstrad CPC 464.
No worries mate, im trying to work my way through the patreon request backlog now so thought id get this one out the way cos you have waited so patiently.
I think Treasure island Dizzy was the only game many an old school gamer completed back in the day! Only one I did as well.
The spectrum was the perfect system for dizzy
Very true, Spectrum really showed off dizzy
Treasure Island on speccy was/is my favourite thanks for the upload osg my man
Excellent! Thank you so much.
Love your videos osg! I enjoyed treasure island dizzy very much as a kid
Thanks mate
As a kid I aways loved the look of dizzy games but my god found them hard and mostly gave up
Great video 👍
Thanks Alex :-)
Great video, as usual. I'm surprised the Megadrive version of Fantastic Dizzy didn't make it into the list, though.
In any case, I think Kim Justice would have loved to collaborate on this video. 😊
I had a few on the c64. Never knew what the hell I was meant to do. The mega drive one was good though.
Overall I think I prefer Seymour or Chucky for my C64 egg folk.
Eggcellent video and a good Top 10 list.
Don't think I'd change anything on the list personally.
That means a lot coming from you, i used your site a lot while researching this list
I had the Dizzy Collection on c64, which was Dizzy 1-4 plus Fast Food. I also had Dizzy Panic.
Of those, Magicland and Fantasy were the best. I just replayed Fantasy a week ago, and it was still fun.
My first ever experience of Dizzy was Fantasy on the Atari ST at my friend's house. I still mean to replay that version, as I recall some differences from the C64
You brought back so great memories there. I used to love dizzy, sorry osg. Fantasy world on c64 ❤
I only played treasure island dizzy, I had no idea there were so many games. What’s impressive is that the Speccy versions seem to have surprisingly good music.
yeah 128k versions are great
@@oldstylegaming they all had great music.
iirc, Allister Brimble was Codemasters' go-to guy for tunes, and he certainly knew what he was doing :)
Loved dizzy games growing up, and agree with the top 3 games, exept for me the C64 versions are the best with their great music and better presentation.
(and dizzy not changing colour with the background)
love these games and the soundtracks are brilliant
I used to love my Dizzy Collection on my C64! played them all to death! I really liked Treasure island and fantasy world on the Amiga though for the Art style!
Fast Food Dizzy was underrated in my mind. But my favourite was the 1st one I played which was Treasure Island on the A500.
me too!
Dizzy for me personally is one of the best games of ALL TIME. I feel sorry for today's kids who will not feel the joy of playing such games back in the 1980s on the Spectrum and Commodore. Videos like this make me happy and sad at the same time. My generation grew up in a much better and happier times. THANKS FOR THE VIDEO!!!
Love Dizzy, one of my favourites is Dizzy Down The Rapids i absolutely loved it! Recently picked up the Oliver Twins collection on the Evercade which is full of the Dizzy Classics, but no down the rapids unfortunately.
Ah Dizzy. Always hated the games, not for me but a great video as always 👍
Same here mate
thank you
You're welcome
No C64 QuikSnax?! That was better than the other versions of the game by a country mile! Great graphics, gameplay, music and mini-games! Not even a mention here! Still great video though!
I really dont like the games tbh thats why i drafted in the help of someone else
Good list although bit dismayed at the lack of CPC love here, considering Dizzy was created on the CPC. i'd have had Magic Land at the top spot.
@G P I had the CPC long before I had the other machines so to me, the CPC versions were my versions. (although I will admit the 16 colour CPC Crystal Kingdom Dizzy looked very poor). I like all versions in their own way..
Wow haven't seen the 😵 Games in a long time.😂 😂
Interesting video, never played any version, on any system. A cute character though.
Wow, so many on the Spectrum. My memories of Dizzy Games was on the Amiga.
I think they were written for the spectrum originally, tbh i never played a dizzy game on the Amiga, by the time i got an amiga the dizzy franchise was very tired for me
Kwik SNax is always the interesting one. The game on the C64 is completely different than the one that was released for the other micros. I wonder what the story for that was as they were released at the same time.
maybe the idea was pitched and they all went off did their own thing, the Spectrum and the Amstrad were so similar that a lot of the games were just ports from one to the other (bit like Amiga and ST) good to see you again Ronnie :-)
I remember it being great on the speccy, mainly for the music.
Kwik Snax on the C64 screams 'reskin'. And I think it was great - there were so many ideas crammed into that game (the weapons, the collectables, the hidden rooms and bonus round to name a few) - it just doesn't seem like something Codemasters would have intentionally commissioned, I reckon this was someone's original game that they bought and rebranded as Kwik Snax to fill the gap in the cross-platform coverage.
@@aqarius5740 I noticed that it was nothing like the other versions but only played it on C64 once.
Played them Dizzy adventure games on the C64 when I was 12....even though the graphics didnt improve much on the Speccy version, I loved them ever since. In fact, I had a fondness of Speccy style graphics on the C64, such as Head over Heels, Skool Daze, Fairlight, Treasure Island and Popey the Sailorman 😅
Great Games! First game I had on the speccy was Treasure Island Dizzy - bought purely on the appeal of the cover art! Soon followed by Dizzy 1, which I felt was the better game! Would love to see the Oliver Twins do a new Dizzy game on the Spectrum Next!
They probably will i would think, they are sill active
Treasure island dizzy for the Amiga 500 was the first game i bought myself can still remember the day all these years on, am still an avid gamer.
My Big brother had majority of these games back in the day for his amstrad. I got to play some in mid 90s lol. However i managed to find fantastic Dizzy ( My personal fave) on the plug in controller type games recently
So many memories
I need to play through some of these on the steam deck or the oliver twins collection on the evercade. Prince of the old folk was the only one I finished back in the day. The others were rock solid with what felt like pixel perfect jumps.
Fantasy world was my fav, the best thing about Dizzy games is they were nice and cheap you could go and loads for a few quid which when your young and can't a lot makes a lot of difference.
I never really understood the c64 versions, they essentially seemed to use the same gfx as the Spectrum, even though it was capable of better. Though the music in fastasy World Dizzy on the c64 is great.
Even though that music was reused from the C64 version of Fast Food.
My unlce said he nearly got all the coins on Treasure Island Dizzy exept for 1 coin and he thought it was a glitch.
Played most of the speccy games. Almost completed Treasure Island and Fantasy Land but died at the last hurdle on both
Kwik Snax on c64 was amazing. Completely different to the speccy
My fave was always magic land Dizzy, the music and puzzles were great even though some of the jumps had to be pixel-perfect. Even though I loved the graphics of treasure island Dizzy if you dropped the wrong item you were fucked and may as well reset. I'm surprised nobody has resurrected the franchise just even with nice graphics, have some speech and make it 2D,a Dizzyvania as such. Keep the single screens but have a bit of scrolling here and there.
Thanks for the kind words about Magicland :) I was the designer on that one - the first one that the Oliver Twins didn't do - and at the time I was just happy that it wasn't a franchise-killer. Anyway, the 2015 game "Mystik Belle" is the closest thing I've played to what you describe - it has a very similar blend of puzzles 'n' platforming to the Dizzy games but with a healthy dose of Metroidvania thrown in.
@@blatherskite3009 ah awesome, I always assumed the Oliver Twins did it. I still mean to play the latest one. I always ended up either down the well or in the water trying to jump on that bloody shark's fin for hours so I guess I have you to blame for that. I've always thought it was the pinnacle of the Dizzy games, what other games did you work on?
@@krissymarklewis1793 I left Codemasters when the game was 90% complete so never got to do any final playtesting. The shark was meant to be easy, moving at the same speed as Dizzy, so all you were supposed to do was time your jump to land on it, keep walking, and jump off at the other side. That was the idea, anyway...
That was the first and last game I did. Left the games industry after that and did "fun" law stuff instead. Big Red (the guys who were contracted to code Magicland to the design spec I wrote) took over on the next game along, designing and coding it.
Codemasters did contact me to see if I wanted to do Dizzy 5 but were only offering a flat payment of £100 to do it. Even back in 1990 that simply wasn't worth the time that I wanted to put into the project, because I wanted to do something a bit more ambitious after (mostly) "playing it safe" with Magicland.
The only real change I made with Magicland was Dizzy no longer dying with one hit, just because it p*ssed me off so much with the earlier games :)
Great list - and I know it's inherently a subjective opinion but there's some weird platform choices here. I can't say I've played the edition of Fast Food Dizzy shown here, but the Amiga/ST version was a lot faster and a lot more frantic.
Same with Fantastic Dizzy - the Master System edition was a programming wonder when you consider the scale of the game, but the Mega Drive version has a genuinely beautiful soundtrack rather than the MS cart which sounds like someone's emptied a change jar down some wooden stairs.
I respect the dissenting opinions though, even if I disagree. Thanks for the nostalgia!
Totally agree with the number 1 on the list. But there are problems lower down. Kwik Snax on Spectrum and Amstrad is just a clone of Pengo. The C64 version is much more interesting, a maze game inspired by the Sega arcade title Flicky. Dizzy Down The Rapids is also a much better spin-off than Fast Food (which was originally going to be sponsored by Happy Eater, but they withdrew). And Magicland Dizzy is inferior to Crystal Kingdom Dizzy in my view.
I cant really argue mate, ive never been a fan hence why i hot help with this one. They all seem very similar to me
treasure island dizzy on the amiga was by far the best game go take a look at the music on that version . infacet not one of your dizzy games came from the amiga . why is this ?.
For me i never played a dizzy game on the amiga, by the time i got my amiga the dizzy franchise was very tired .... in case you didnt realise im not fond of dizzy games haha
Magicland is certainly the best Dizzy adventure, (not played Wonderful Dizzy i suspect that is better) but they're all great. the Spectrum did have the best versions but they're all playable on any system, (although speccy versions of Bubble and Rapids were trash)
Bring back dizzy!
Dizzy TUCA was one of the best discoveries back in the day, I played the f**k out of that game.
I heard about the game's existence from a school mate. I was in a computer shop one weekend and there it was the Amstrad CPC version on the shelf staring me in the face, I just had to have it.
The only one i would disagree on is Dizzy (the first in the series), on the Spectrum there is no music and you have THE most annoying walking noise. Amstrad version has good music and plays the same and looks the same without colour clash :) My favourite probably is the first one and Fantasy World Dizzy
As a kid Dizzy was perfect for me as I got a lot of game for little money which meant I still had some milk round money left for important things like sweets and comics :) And if they ever make Dizzy into a movie then Matt Lucas should play him.
Haha
Whilst I agree that Dizzy had his home on the Spectrum, I'm surprised that the Amiga versions weren't mentioned at all as they were generally superior in graphics, sound and gameplay. Especially Fast Food - the CPC version was a blight on the Dizzy landscape.
First one is almost the same as NES/Famicom version.There`s also Go Dizzy go -puzzle game.
Quite a few factual inaccuracies, but that aside, a good video.
Loved the dizzy games , great value at 1.99 or 2.99
Can't blame codies for milking it
But, number 10 was the best.
Lol everyone will have their favourite ..personally im not really a fan, I mean yeah they were a real bargain for the money but they all very like each other apart from Fast Food, Kwik Snax and Bubble Dizzy (which i didnt include)
Never played one....should be ashamed 😅
About test of time - adventure parts of Dizzy definitely didn't stand it. Dead ends in the first game, lives system (which seems horribly distracting for time consuming game where puzzle solving requires you to wander a lot) and Rick Dangerous learn by heart traps in Treasure Island. Series got old badly, imho.
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Dizzy was best on the Amiga.