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Dead Mice Started conversation Jul 10, 2001
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A590041
This is a revised and edited version of Codemasters' Dizzy Games.
The Dizzy games were very popular in their time and provided a lot of joy for those lucky enough to play them. In fact, they were so good that many sad individuals haven't quite got over them yet and are still wasting away their lives playing them, which just goes to show how great they are... I think.
Anyway, Codemasters' Dizzy games belong in the Computer Gaming hall of fame and I have written this piece, which provides a comical and detailed retrospective on the series, to educate the latest generation of gamers about the adventures of Dizzy. I feel it is only right to let these newbies into a delicious and often under-rated slice of gaming history. In addition, this piece will hopefully remind old school gamers of the brilliance of Dizzy and encourage them to dust off their old games and relive the memories.
A590041 - Dizzy The Egg
Mr Prophet (General Purpose Genre Guru) Posted Jul 11, 2001
Woo-hoo! Go Dizzy!
This is a really detailed and informative article; and pretty funny too. You might want to make the language a little more formal if you want to get picked up for editing; or maybe not. You'd have to ask a Scout to be sure. There're a couple of typos, but I wanted to read the rest of the article, so I forgot to stop and make a note of what they were. Still, they should get picked up by the sub-eds if no-one else notices in peer review.
A personal anecdote to indicate how addictive Dizzy was:
I played the game on a Spectrum: no save games, so I'd have to restart from scratch everytime I got killed (since most of the games didn't even have lives). Now I get fed up of trying to move between save points in those incomprehensibly popular (Not-so-)Final Fantasy games, yet I managed to finish Magicland Dizzy, and get a fair way through most of the first four. They were that playable.
And I remember that blasted shark fin; oh yes I do.
The Prophet.
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Dead Mice Posted Jul 11, 2001
Finally, someone realises my genius... I mean, Dizzy's genius. My plan for world domination is coming closer to realisation. A very informal realisation, but a realisation nonetheless. Agh, what am I talking about?
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Jul 11, 2001
There's another thread about this entry, at http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/f48874?thread=126544 Please follow the link to post your comments, as *this* thread will soon be put into the Sin Bin. Bossel (housekeeping Scout)
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