Originally uploaded 11th February 2012. Reuploaded here to consolidate on one channel. 5 new RetroAhoy episodes follow this original run. Email: stu@rtbrown.org Twitter: / xboxahoy Reddit: / xboxahoy
Back in the day the fact that codemasters called those games "simulators" was a running joke in the games press. Some saw it as deliberately misleading in fact.
You should have mentioned the Wonderland Dizzy game. The Oliver Twins found an unreleased Dizzy game for the NES, which they've managed to compile, and released the rom online, as well as a browser version. To be fair, it was announced only 2-3 days ago.
I've done a legit playthrough of Dizzy for my channel! Great game, and it was indeed a challenge, most of which stems from having to schlep back and forth across the map because you can only carry one object. There are some red herrings in there too, which can throw you off a bit. Still a classic. Thanks for the history lesson!
I got my start with Dizzy over here in the US with a rental of Quatro Adventure on the NES. The song from Super Robin Hood is still burned into my brain 30 years later.
+E Mic In one of his early reviews he claimed in what sounded like a half-joking manner that Fantasy World Dizzy (shown in the video at 3:44 - 3:56) was the best game ever made. In a far later video he clarified that his previous statement had been mostly a joke.
He also turned it into a Let's play series on his personal channel to end the running gag. Little did he know it would be later evolve into him doing the let's drown out series, the best weekly thing since sliced bread.
You should do one of these videos on Loom. I played it when I was a kid and have been looking for it since. I have kept from researching it because noone does it like Ahoy. Best content for sure
I beat it on an emulator two years ago. At the time I played it on the amiga 500 I couldnt understand English. I still remember the satisfaction of looking up the word pogo stick in a dictionary. And I taped the music to cassette:D
The memories are coming back. I had so much fun with the Dizzy games back in the day. Fantastic Dizzy specially. I think it's the best in the entire series. Also, it seems that the next series of games you're gonna talk about is the Souls Swords series, eh? Can hardly wait!
I liked Dizzy on the Genesis. I had it at one time. I was lousy at it, and I think it was too hard but it reminds me of my childhood so yeah, yay I still liked it.
It's kinda weird that there is this huge slice of PC history that I just completely skipped over. I was playing Crisis Mountain and Below the Root on a Apple II clone, and later it was all about Sierra, Apogee, and Epic on a PC.
I've only finished Fantasy World Dizzy, on Commodore 64, all by myself (no internet back then), and I am still very proud of it. No save games, so you need to memorize everything. The I played some of Dizzy on the Amiga, but never finish any of it. I'd like to try and fniish them all, but dont have enough free time, and motivation is not that strong as once were.
yes, there WERE a lot of sequels and spin-offs, not to mention a PC game named Speedy Eggabert (I think). oh, I recall that game despite being just 16. it was fun, it entertained me for days.
I've always wanted to give this series a shot since my first confusing experience getting lost in one of the NES ports when I was younger. This video made me decide that there is time enough at last.
My family owned Fantastic Dizzy for the Sega Gensis. I would never have guessed that Dizzt was apparantly a popular character, I thought it was a one0off game.
Played the shit out of "Prince of the Yolk folk" and would load up "Treasure island Dizzy" just for the intro tune. Great times,great games. Not many people liked "Bubble dizzy" but i love it on the C64. the 16bit versions didnt quite have the same gameplay.
Not sure if you know, but the Oliver twins have found another Dizzy game they didn't release, Dizzy in Wonderland, been reading about it in Retro Gamer magazine.
Learning about games I've never heard of on systems I've barely heard discussed makes it seem like Europe's game market was a completely different world. I've seen some '80s games discussed by Ashens too.
It was. We never experienced the crash so Japanese consoles didn't take over until the early '90s (and even then, they were tempered by a significant PC gaming scene from the off). We kept our microcomputers throughout the '80s and kept making games for them, but Americans didn't get the devices and thus missed the games entirely. No offence to you personally, of course, since you seem very open about what you do and don't know but sometimes, listening to average Americans talk about the history of video games can seem like a lecture on the 20th century without any reference to WW1 (or some equally huge event).
+Ahoy Were you part of the ZX Spectrum bedroom coding movement? Coding simple BASIC games is still fresh in my mind today. I was 5 years old when I started doing it.
I feel like games only age badly when their mechanics get obsoleted by clearly superior alternatives, and aside from some awkward platforming that simply hasn't happened to Dizzy. I could easily imagine a current mobile version, probably with slightly bigger sprites, the screen is always centered on Dizzy and scrolls around so you can touch in any direction you want him to go, you touch Dizzy himself to make a tic-tac-toe grid go over the screen with only the middle square around Dizzy remaining visible, Dizzy can pick up, drop, and place items in this square by dragging them in and out of three inventory slots that appear at the top of this screen, there's also a magnifying glass icon that can be dragged over anything to make a text description appear at the bottom of this screen, maybe he has a backpack that he takes off and opens during this part, and to return to gameplay you just touch Dizzy again. I suppose you could also drag Dizzy somewhere to make him do a jump in that direction? Anyway this is just an example, to illustrate the potential of Dizzy-style platform-based graphical adventure.
I tried to play this in my spectrum 48, but I just couldn't figure it out. My screen was black and white, which didn't help, and my very young age was also probably a factor.
Only ever played Treasure Island Dizzy on the CPC, and I had no idea WTF was going on! Wasn't a fan. I did love old skool Codemasters though. They were good times.
Back in the day the fact that codemasters called those games "simulators" was a running joke in the games press. Some saw it as deliberately misleading in fact.
The tradition lives on in steam green light
swag simulator is such a gem....
@Adam Courier In 2020 more than ever it would appear.
So would you say that being able to rotate the sprite in the jump animation was... *revolutionary?*
+Alex Soil what channel?
***** Don't ruin my mojo man I was really proud of this one
+GrazerMagic
All I can say is Metroid wouldn't be the same without Samus and her perfection of front flip.
+Heinrich Thurston Probably on his Ahoy^2 channel.
have you ever done any programming for 8bit machines? back then it wasn't all that easy as today..
You should have mentioned the Wonderland Dizzy game. The Oliver Twins found an unreleased Dizzy game for the NES, which they've managed to compile, and released the rom online, as well as a browser version. To be fair, it was announced only 2-3 days ago.
...And this is a re-upload of a old video that was originally uploaded to TH-cam on 11th February 2012 (According to the description box).
***** Didn't see that, whoops.
Well, its a little trivia for people to read.
I love the reference in Dizzy's plot to "The Four Tasks of Danger Mouse" -- right down to the "vampire duck's feather".
I love the Dizzy series so much it cost me two joysticks (looking at you prince of the yolk folk)
My dad's favorite game. Also played it when I was little, now I'm pursue my dream to make own video games
I've done a legit playthrough of Dizzy for my channel! Great game, and it was indeed a challenge, most of which stems from having to schlep back and forth across the map because you can only carry one object. There are some red herrings in there too, which can throw you off a bit. Still a classic. Thanks for the history lesson!
Dizzy is my childhood. One of the first I ever played was Yolkfolk and was my way into gaming :)
There's a free game called Spud's Quest which is pretty much a Dizzy game in all but name.
Wow this takes me back. Thanks for covering this ;)
I got my start with Dizzy over here in the US with a rental of Quatro Adventure on the NES. The song from Super Robin Hood is still burned into my brain 30 years later.
Yhatzee's favourite game
+Millad Bahrami Wait really?
+Millad Bahrami He didn't say it was his favourite but he said fantasy world dizzy is the only game for which he has nostalgia
+E Mic
In one of his early reviews he claimed in what sounded like a half-joking manner that Fantasy World Dizzy (shown in the video at 3:44 - 3:56) was the best game ever made. In a far later video he clarified that his previous statement had been mostly a joke.
He also turned it into a Let's play series on his personal channel to end the running gag. Little did he know it would be later evolve into him doing the let's drown out series, the best weekly thing since sliced bread.
I like so much your "documentary game videos"! All the work to research make history in videos is amazing! Good job!
Dizzy?! Somebody get Yahtzee on the horn!
I want to know when we're going to see Dizzy in Super Smash Bros... They pretty much have everyone else!
Treasure island dizzy nearly made my young brain explode with frustration lol
The Brits love Dizzy. They should add him to the PAL version of Smash Bros.
Do we
@Indy Borgnine ok thanks
That would be cool even tho I'm not interested in Smash Bros anymore
Never have I ever thought you’d make a video about this game.
And I guess I’m 5 years too late to think that
watching this makes me wanna go watch the dizzy lets play on the other channel. the only place you can find stuart raging at a game lol
You should do one of these videos on Loom. I played it when I was a kid and have been looking for it since. I have kept from researching it because noone does it like Ahoy. Best content for sure
I played all the dizzy games on spectrum in early 90s. Also played the NES Dizzy and Robin of Sherwood
Absolutely love this series, brilliant work! Please, please please can you do Julian Gollop and Rebelstar / Laser Squad / Chaos / UFO series?
he uploaded it
@@Preinstallable Yeah! I watched it this weekend, it was so good. Very happy to see it :)
Bushido blade is one i hold in high esteem. One of my top 3 fighter games.
I had dizzy treasure island on the spectrum, I had no clue what I was doing aged 6 but I loved it
I'd love to hear your insights into the Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy games. Definitely my favourites on the Spectrum.
Loved these games.
The greatest game ever made.
I've only played Treasure Island Dizzy on the Amiga, it has fantastic music.
+Drake Sigar Same here haha. I never beat it though but the theme song is after all this years still stuck in my head
I beat it on an emulator two years ago. At the time I played it on the amiga 500 I couldnt understand English. I still remember the satisfaction of looking up the word pogo stick in a dictionary. And I taped the music to cassette:D
The memories are coming back. I had so much fun with the Dizzy games back in the day. Fantastic Dizzy specially. I think it's the best in the entire series.
Also, it seems that the next series of games you're gonna talk about is the Souls Swords series, eh? Can hardly wait!
+White Heart Wow, I didn't know you had such a hankering for old games like this ^^
Of course you'd like old games Blanc! Stuck in the past. Go back to Luwee! Vert is better in every way.
keep em coming
I liked Dizzy on the Genesis. I had it at one time. I was lousy at it, and I think it was too hard but it reminds me of my childhood so yeah, yay I still liked it.
The great news is that there is new Dizzy game in development for the ZX Spectrum Next by the Oliver Twins. That to me is very exciting news.
Played the first ones on ZX Spectrum 128k and on Amiga 500, and Fantastic Dizzy on Megadrive. Great series!
It's kinda weird that there is this huge slice of PC history that I just completely skipped over. I was playing Crisis Mountain and Below the Root on a Apple II clone, and later it was all about Sierra, Apogee, and Epic on a PC.
That Puggsy artwork looks a lot like the first rayman game.
I loved this game!! The sequel was good as well
Treasure Island Dizzy on the Spectrum 128k, brilliant memories.
There was something addictive about Dizzy.
I've only finished Fantasy World Dizzy, on Commodore 64, all by myself (no internet back then), and I am still very proud of it. No save games, so you need to memorize everything.
The I played some of Dizzy on the Amiga, but never finish any of it.
I'd like to try and fniish them all, but dont have enough free time, and motivation is not that strong as once were.
yes, there WERE a lot of sequels and spin-offs, not to mention a PC game named Speedy Eggabert (I think). oh, I recall that game despite being just 16. it was fun, it entertained me for days.
fantasy island dizzy was awesome
Kwik snax for c64 was a big part of my early childhood.
Too bad Dizzy didn't became a big franchise. This series was great.
I loved fantastic Dizzy by then
I've always wanted to give this series a shot since my first confusing experience getting lost in one of the NES ports when I was younger. This video made me decide that there is time enough at last.
I had Fantastic Dizzy on the Sega Mega Drive as a kid.
is it only me who gets ASMR whilst watching these?
I'm surprised he didn't mention Wonderland Dizzy, the long-lost Dizzy game that was just released for free on browsers.
read the description. this is a reupload. the video is almost 4 years old.
My family owned Fantastic Dizzy for the Sega Gensis. I would never have guessed that Dizzt was apparantly a popular character, I thought it was a one0off game.
Wonderland Dizzy coming soon for the new ZX Spectrum Next
Fast food Dizzy was the best Dizzy
Dizzy was my childhood
This game might as well have been the first metroidvania style game lol
I wonder when Ahoy's next video is coming.
Played the shit out of "Prince of the Yolk folk" and would load up "Treasure island Dizzy" just for the intro tune. Great times,great games. Not many people liked "Bubble dizzy" but i love it on the C64. the 16bit versions didnt quite have the same gameplay.
Loved this little gem, and I still have my cassette!
Here after AVGN
I feel so Dizzy
The art style of the first Dizzy game reminds me a lot of the art style of an IOS game called: Downwell.
Knew a kid who thought Dizzy was the best. An unpopular position given Sonic 1 & Mario where then stomping the competition
Not sure if you know, but the Oliver twins have found another Dizzy game they didn't release, Dizzy in Wonderland, been reading about it in Retro Gamer magazine.
Amazing :)
Cool vid
I feel like Bomberman/Dynablaster could be worth a RetroAhoy episode.
Learning about games I've never heard of on systems I've barely heard discussed makes it seem like Europe's game market was a completely different world. I've seen some '80s games discussed by Ashens too.
It was. We never experienced the crash so Japanese consoles didn't take over until the early '90s (and even then, they were tempered by a significant PC gaming scene from the off). We kept our microcomputers throughout the '80s and kept making games for them, but Americans didn't get the devices and thus missed the games entirely. No offence to you personally, of course, since you seem very open about what you do and don't know but sometimes, listening to average Americans talk about the history of video games can seem like a lecture on the 20th century without any reference to WW1 (or some equally huge event).
11th February 2012th holy shit m8...
I loved dizzy when i was a kiddo
The only one I've played is Dizzy Fast Food on the c64. It's weird seeing him in different context.
+Ahoy
Were you part of the ZX Spectrum bedroom coding movement? Coding simple BASIC games is still fresh in my mind today. I was 5 years old when I started doing it.
He was a Amiga kid with a game named Krusha which he is making a sequel to on the side
+slightlytwistedagain looking at the screen shots, I guessing he was CPC fan as that what those shots come from
It is worth mentioning that the first game came out in 1987.
I feel like games only age badly when their mechanics get obsoleted by clearly superior alternatives, and aside from some awkward platforming that simply hasn't happened to Dizzy. I could easily imagine a current mobile version, probably with slightly bigger sprites, the screen is always centered on Dizzy and scrolls around so you can touch in any direction you want him to go, you touch Dizzy himself to make a tic-tac-toe grid go over the screen with only the middle square around Dizzy remaining visible, Dizzy can pick up, drop, and place items in this square by dragging them in and out of three inventory slots that appear at the top of this screen, there's also a magnifying glass icon that can be dragged over anything to make a text description appear at the bottom of this screen, maybe he has a backpack that he takes off and opens during this part, and to return to gameplay you just touch Dizzy again. I suppose you could also drag Dizzy somewhere to make him do a jump in that direction? Anyway this is just an example, to illustrate the potential of Dizzy-style platform-based graphical adventure.
This game used to drive me nuts.
Treasure Island Dizzy, CPC464: ICANFLY ;)
are you sure dizzy didn't get his name from when he drank a bit much?
hey ahoy you should do the iconic arms for the famas
Yahtzee's favorite game series of all time.
Do more videos on guns. Those were awesome.
Another example of a game publishers just assumed would not work in the US. I would of played this back in the day.
I tried to play this in my spectrum 48, but I just couldn't figure it out. My screen was black and white, which didn't help, and my very young age was also probably a factor.
I got very dizzy watching this... WHAT?!!
I've never heard of this series..
The Egg was then an IDEA~!
yahtzee is proud
You look at a Dizzy game and you think it's a kids game. They are actually so hard.
"Ave-a-wiff-of-E" potion, eh? Sounds like MDMA to me. lol :D
but the pikey accent betrays it's true contents: Fentanyl and unleaded gasoline. XD
Yahtzee, is that you?
Soo cool
i hope there was an over easy mode.
ahoy there!
I like your voice.
I feel old now lol
Did Codemasters do Ninja Scooter Simulator?
In this age of remakes, we need a new Dizzy game. Indie devs, assemble!!!!!!!!!
Haha no
YaaaaaY dizzy!!!!!!!!!!!!
Iconic arms?
Same
Hey hey people
Only 7 minutes?
2:33
yo I would watch an episode of Iconic Arms: Plastic Raincoat
Only ever played Treasure Island Dizzy on the CPC, and I had no idea WTF was going on! Wasn't a fan.
I did love old skool Codemasters though. They were good times.