Amiga

The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy

Who would have thought it, eh? The little blobby white character who came into existence because he was easy to draw and did not present too much of a problem to the old Spectrum’s extremely limited colour palette is now one of the country’s biggest video game stars. As well as racking up huge sales on all the 8-bit and 16-bit home computer formats, Dizzy has been spotted on the NES and recently made his debut on the Mega Drive. In fact, he made his debut in this very game, which is the first-ever Dizzy game to be converted back to a floppy disk format, as well as the first one to feature proper scrolling instead of just flicking from screen to screen. Pretty interesting stuff so far, huh?

Fantastic Dizzys existensberättigande är tveksamt. Möjligtvis kan en yngre publik ha en del glädje av spelet, tack vara att det är så lätt att lära sig. Men också de kommer att spela igenom spelet ganska snabbt, och vi som har högre krav än så glömmer det här illa kvickt. Jag hoppas att speltillverkarna snart tröttnar på att göra sega plattformsklichéer som denna och satsar sina resurser på intressantare projekt.