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 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.
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!
+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.
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 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
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 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.
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'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.
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.
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.
+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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
"Mega Drive" was the official name in most regions, including Japan and Europe, for the system known as the Genesis in the US. I'd say there was a bit of trademark clash in the US which prevented that name being used.
I grew up with Fantastic Dizzy on MS-DOS. Easily one of the best Dizzy games in my opinion, although all of the games in the series are a bit unfair gameplay wise.
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.
I know it's a very old joke at this point that only Europeans like Dizzy games and Americans can't understand why, but i don't want to keep it secret anymore, I'm an American and I really enjoy several of the Dizzy games. Actually I'm more confused by the hate that Dizzy gets here in the States, maybe they weren't the most amazing games ever but at least a few of them were quite enjoyable.
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 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.
I love the reference in Dizzy's plot to "The Four Tasks of Danger Mouse" -- right down to the "vampire duck's feather".
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 :)
I love the Dizzy series so much it cost me two joysticks (looking at you prince of the yolk folk)
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 like so much your "documentary game videos"! All the work to research make history in videos is amazing! Good job!
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.
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!
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
Treasure island dizzy nearly made my young brain explode with frustration lol
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 :)
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.
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
Hey hey people
Glad to see I’m not the only one who came here from Sseth’s video
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
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.
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
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.
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'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.
I had dizzy treasure island on the spectrum, I had no clue what I was doing aged 6 but I loved it
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.
I played all the dizzy games on spectrum in early 90s. Also played the NES Dizzy and Robin of Sherwood
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.
+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
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.
I'd love to hear your insights into the Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy games. Definitely my favourites on the Spectrum.
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.
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.
The greatest game ever made.
I loved fantastic Dizzy by then
Bushido blade is one i hold in high esteem. One of my top 3 fighter games.
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.
Kwik snax for c64 was a big part of my early childhood.
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...
That Puggsy artwork looks a lot like the first rayman game.
Played the first ones on ZX Spectrum 128k and on Amiga 500, and Fantastic Dizzy on Megadrive. Great series!
Treasure Island Dizzy on the Spectrum 128k, brilliant memories.
I had Fantastic Dizzy on the Sega Mega Drive as a kid.
There was something addictive about Dizzy.
Loved these games.
Too bad Dizzy didn't became a big franchise. This series was great.
Loved this little gem, and I still have my cassette!
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.
This game might as well have been the first metroidvania style game lol
fantasy island dizzy was awesome
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.
is it only me who gets ASMR whilst watching these?
Knew a kid who thought Dizzy was the best. An unpopular position given Sonic 1 & Mario where then stomping the competition
It is worth mentioning that the first game came out in 1987.
Wonderland Dizzy coming soon for the new ZX Spectrum Next
The art style of the first Dizzy game reminds me a lot of the art style of an IOS game called: Downwell.
I feel like Bomberman/Dynablaster could be worth a RetroAhoy episode.
Here after AVGN
Dizzy was my childhood
The only one I've played is Dizzy Fast Food on the c64. It's weird seeing him in different context.
In this age of remakes, we need a new Dizzy game. Indie devs, assemble!!!!!!!!!
Haha no
You look at a Dizzy game and you think it's a kids game. They are actually so hard.
I wonder when Ahoy's next video is coming.
are you sure dizzy didn't get his name from when he drank a bit much?
Another example of a game publishers just assumed would not work in the US. I would of played this back in the day.
keep em coming
Fast food Dizzy was the best Dizzy
I loved this game!! The sequel was good as well
2:02 did anyone notice that those slabs had the same texture as the Minecraft ones?!
What?
I feel so Dizzy
2:33
yo I would watch an episode of Iconic Arms: Plastic Raincoat
Only 7 minutes?
"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
Hmm, Dead to Rights: Retribution? I really enjoyed that game, even if it didn't get great reviews.
Treasure Island Dizzy, CPC464: ICANFLY ;)
Yahtzee, is that you?
I loved dizzy when i was a kiddo
whats the difference between sega mega drive and sega genesis?
"Mega Drive" was the official name in most regions, including Japan and Europe, for the system known as the Genesis in the US. I'd say there was a bit of trademark clash in the US which prevented that name being used.
hey ahoy you should do the iconic arms for the famas
Yahtzee's favorite game series of all time.
I grew up with Fantastic Dizzy on MS-DOS. Easily one of the best Dizzy games in my opinion, although all of the games in the series are a bit unfair gameplay wise.
yahtzee is proud
This game used to drive me nuts.
I always saw dizzy as a budget knock-off of budget platformer Monty Mole. Surprised he didn't make an appearance in Dizzy's influences.
Did Codemasters do Ninja Scooter Simulator?
i hope there was an over easy mode.
What is "eyeaus"? Do you mean "i-O-S"? As in "iDevice Operating System"?
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.
I know it's a very old joke at this point that only Europeans like Dizzy games and Americans can't understand why, but i don't want to keep it secret anymore, I'm an American and I really enjoy several of the Dizzy games. Actually I'm more confused by the hate that Dizzy gets here in the States, maybe they weren't the most amazing games ever but at least a few of them were quite enjoyable.
Undertale must've had some graphical inspiration from this
You wanna do Fury of the furries?
I've never heard of this series..
Do more videos on guns. Those were awesome.
I got very dizzy watching this... WHAT?!!
i burned many power supplies on my nes clone when i was a kid with this game because there was no save and no walktrough on internet :)