Unreleased NES Title Panic! Dizzy Hits Kickstarter

At this age the Oliver twins look like Dizzy themselves

I wish a remake of the original Dizzy adventure game was in the works. I never finished it, but it was captivating.

I played a lot of the old Dizzy games on ZX Spectrum but I'm pretty sure a 'new' one isn't going to hold up these days. Sometimes nostalgia needs to stay as nostalgia.

@dystome @SmaggTheSmug They are making a new Dizzy game, but it's for the ZX Spectrum Next. Not heard much about the game but it's apparently happening. Think they released one or two screenshots a little while back.

Any chance of a Famicom release?

Would love an dizzy collection to be released over this as having to boot up my amstrad evey time I want to play them is a pain mind you they take less time to load up than som ps4 games these days which is odd

Dizzy collection for Switch PLEASE!!!

@FragRed
And there i was thinking this was a joke so i Googled Spectrum Next and boom there it was.

I like the look of this old school computer, i used to spend ages coding on my original rubber key speccy only to get a Syntax error message

Yep I echo that , let’s get these in a collection for the switch !

@Welshland I did think perhaps I should clarify it was a real thing when commenting. I backed it and they have provided updates on every step of production. It's not emulated but entirely hardware based - it is effectively an 8 bit ZX Spectrum but backwards compatible with all existing games.

Nice to see them still finding some gold buried beneath their archives.

@SmaggTheSmug I was thinking the same thing about them looking like Dizzy lol

@dystome I don't get what you mean? I'm old enough the have played on a ZX Spectrum & none of my other beloved 80s franchises have been ruined. Except Ninja Turtles, Transformers, She-Ra, ReBoot..

@dystome I downloaded a few of the originals a year or two back and loved replaying them. They obviously are pretty short buy today’s gaming standards but I still enjoyed the nostalgia trip if nothing else.

I owned loads of Dizzy games back in my Amiga 500 days. I didn’t even know they had been released on a Nintendo console to be honest. Always up for a trip down nostalgia lane though!

@Ooyah On the ZX Spectrum it was called Dizzy Panic on the box but Panic Dizzy on the loading screen (or vice versa, I can't remember).

But weirdly, whatever it was called, it seems a completely different game to this...

They used to be SO prolific, and I admired them greatly growing up.
Half a dozen amazing games a year. The ultimate duo.

Some days I wonder, if they actually sat down and made "little" games nowadays, for mobile, or eShop, or GameJams, or something.. what wonderful games they'd create.
I wonder why they don't do that more..

@antonvaltaz see also KwikSnax on the C64, vs every single other version of KwikSnax

Give us the Dizzy Collection FFS.

@Jayenkai Never knew that! Only ever played the Spectrum and Amiga versions...

@antonvaltaz Once got into an argument with someone at college (me a CPC owner, him a C64 owner) about that, before we both came to the realisation.

Played through a bunch of the old Dizzy games on Amiga just recently. There’s something about that formula that I really connect with. The spin-off games... not so much.

The first time I played Dizzy was on the monochrome green Schneider CPC. It felt like a good adventure game at the time (late 80ies.) Unfortunately it was lots of try&error, puzzles were often cryptic, and even though it looked like a kids game we were never able to beat it because of the strict life limit.
I later played a C64 Dizzy-sequel (island themed). At least it was in 16 colors, but it was still difficult enough to be frustrating. I tried it a bit but gave up. My platforming preferences at the time were Bubble Bobble, Bomb Jack, Wonder Boy, and Giana Sisters and I got my adventure fix from Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, and Project Firestart instead.

I'd take the Megadrive version of Fantastic Dizzy on the Switch

Wow what a blast from my childhood... Dizzy. The original was very challenging back in the day.

The dice matching game resembles a game released on the NES called Palamedes (or maybe its Famicom-exclusive sequel, I do remember the rules were slightly different between the two).