Wizkid not Whizz Kid

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Wizkid not Whizz Kid

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There is an archive entry for Whizz Kid by Ocean. The correct title is Wizkid.
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Re: Wizkid not Whizz Kid

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The Whizz Kid spelling seems to come from a magazine article which misspelled the title. "Whizz Kid" should perhaps be listed as an AKA.
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Re: Wizkid not Whizz Kid

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Rorthron wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2018 2:08 pm The Whizz Kid spelling seems to come from a magazine article which misspelled the title. "Whizz Kid" should perhaps be listed as an AKA.
I've added the fix to the spreadsheet, have you got a link to the magazine article?
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BTW it's this title (not the other Whizz Kid in the archive):

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=12486

The magazine reference is already listed in the entry:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/mag.php ... 88&page=11

It's on the bottom right of the page and actually uses the spelling Whizz-Kid (with a hyphen).

The spelling is definitely wrong. The game was released for the C64 as Wizkid, and it's the sequel to Wizball.
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C64 cassette was titled Wizzball...
http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/wizba ... Id,403065/
Great times indeed.
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Wizkid is the sequel to Wizball:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizkid_(video_game)

I made a mistake: it was not released on the C64, but the Amiga.
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Corrections made in ZXDB, thank you!
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All bug reports in this thread were already applied to ZXDB database, therefore I'm now locking this thread for convenience.
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