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Dizzy’s Excellent Adventure (£9.99 cass)
Mercifully, Codies have resisted the
temptation to call their new compilation Dizzy’s Eggcellent Adventures - you get un oeuf bad egg jokes in ZZAP!
Featuring a nice variety of game styles and three new releases, it's almost certain to be a hit but is it a worthy
successor to last year’s Dizzy Collection? I think we should be told . . .
Kwik Snax
Like its
illustrious precessor Fast Food, Kwik Snax is a a maze game in which you pit your wits against hideous Pacman-like
enemies that follow your every move. This time your task is not just to fill your face, but to gather the roving
fluffies that wander around aimlessly, and guide them to the maze exit.
Simple eh? Well it would be if when collected they didn’t insist on following you around like lost sheep, losing
their way completely should they come into contact wilh a monster!
Kwik Snax scored 80% in Issue 67, and I honestly think it was too low. The monster sprites are delightful, the
action is nonstop and the presentation is second to none. Okay, the Dizzy sprite doesn’t look much like our ovoid
chum, but we’ll let that pass. Great game!
Panic Dizzy
There’s nothing like a good puzzler is there? Simple yet addictive, Panic Dizzy has you matching various shapes
to their respective holes, and you’d better be quick about it or you’ll cause a humungous foul up!
Panic Dizzy is the sort of game you either love or hate. I have to admit I found it a little tame, especially after
Kwik Snax, but it’s colourful, well presented and brilliantly executed - if you’re into this sort of puzzler, you
won’t be disappointed.
Prince Of The Yolk Folk
Whoooppeee! At last, a true Dizzy adventure that looks and plays just like it should! Prince Of The Yolk Folk is
a marvellous game, featuring the fiendishly simple problems 
and wonderful cutesy atmosphere we all know and
love! At his best, you can’t go far wrong with a Dizzy game, and this is certainly Dizzy at his best!
It’s interesting to see how the problems have evolved from the early Dizzy games. Whereas before you usually only
used one object to solve one problem, in this one you often have to use them in combination, eg to get out of the
first location you must use all three items on offer.
Prince Of The Yolk Folk is a true masterpiece, and as it’s only available on this compilation, a real incentive
to buy.
Spellbound Dizzy
This is the one you’ve all been waiting for. . . Dizzy’s biggest adventure yet! At 105 screens, it’s bigger than
Dizzy II and III put together!!!
Dizzy
himself is prettier and better animated than in Yolk Folk, but the game as a whole isn’t as well put together.
The simplistic graphics and cutesy atmosphere are there, but the game is plagued by slow running speed - it takes
ages to update the screen after moving to another location or picking up an object. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not
a disaster, just not as good as it’s box-mate.
Dizzy Down The Rapids
Haven’t seen this somewhere before? In a Domark game called Toobin’ perhaps? Dizzy Down The Rapids has you guiding
Dizzy in his floating barrel along a tortuous riven full of logs, crocs, and other nasties intent on sending our
favourite egg to Davy Jones’s locker.
Another
blockbuster, Dizzy Down The Rapids makes good use of the Commodore’s graphic capabilities. What it lacks in originally
it makes up in playability, dispensing with that annoying Asteroids style rotating movement system and instead
concentrating on simplicity and fun.
Full of excellent touches like being able to choose where you reappear when you die, (no being dumped out of the
frying pan into the fire), and a whoop of delight when his eggcellence finds a diamond, Dizzy Down The Rapids is
a worthy contribution to the compilation.
Dizzy’s Excellent Adventures is a superb compilation, a real bargain. One of the best packs I’ve seen in a long time, and anyone who misses out must be one egg short of a hen-house. Buy it!!!
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