Reviews

The little egg can be the subject of loathing, but I tend to other end: Dizzy is a good, playable arcade adventure, and certainly excellent value when you consider it cost you less than a pint would these days. Some of the game design is a bit ropey (most notably the collapsing bridge: screw it up once and it's game over), but there's really nothing to complain about here.

The first Dizzy game is an underappreciated arcade adventure. The graphics are great and the puzzles logical. I like being able to destroy those pesky bats and spiders and it's something I wish they'd kept in for the sequels.
Only being able to carry one item at a time can be annoying as well as having to traipse from one end of the playing area to the other. But these are minor niggles in what is a very enjoyable game.

I'm not one of those guys that gets all excited for an egg - but undoubtedly Dizzy to the yolk, I mean, ilk of the excellently done games, with very good graphics, sounds and playability.
4/5

Dizzy....Many hate....But many also love...

I'm not going to say the first game is the best, but it was pretty much the most pure as an adventure game, you could drag it on as long as you wanted, if you wanted to kill everything you could, or you could speed things up and avoid the enemies that might not get in your way. Personally I found carrying a certain item that did away with a certain type of enemy around until you'd made passing certain screens easier. I'd like to say it cheapened, and made an easy game harder or unnecessarily drawn out, but let's face it many games that are acclaimed these days are super guilty of that, and nobody seems to really take up arms.

I'm gonna cut this review kind of short, because for all the hate for the egg you can't deny that for £1.99 it was an excellent game, and the only problem I ever had with it was the bridge near the start that collapsed if you stepped in the middle of it, as I'm pretty sure that it made the game impossible to finish. My ma got this for me right when it came out, the guy at the electronics store near her work literally hailed her down and yelled "This is just new in I think your son will love it!", how right that goofy nerdy fucker was.

Looking back it was great, but that bridge stops it from getting the 5, especially since it becomes a chore to avoid that bridge every time you have to go by it.