The "Brand-New" Dizzy Game Is A Remake, And It's Included Free With FUZE4 Nintendo Switch

The Oliver Twins are such a goofy pair of gentlemen. Looking forward to this!

Wow, Dizzy’s proper retro. Should be interesting to see what this new game’s like. Hope you lot south of the border manage alright in lockdown, I could see us following you in a couple of weeks.

Dizzy for SMASH. I'm calling it right here right now!

Dizzy was my gateway drug to gaming.

I am very egg-cited for this, indeed!

OMG, I LOVED the Dizzy games on the Commodore 64 as a child, especially Magic Land Dizzy and Crystal Kingdom Dizzy! The music of all the games was amazing. So excited for this!

I wonder if they'll put a retro Dizzy collection on Switch too.

I never liked Dizzy games. But, this is very cool for fans.

I hear these games are awful if you didn't grow up with them. But that just makes me want to try them.

EGGcellent news! Hoping for minecart level ^_^

Ha! I really just found out this franchise existed thanks to Slopes. Really cool about the brothers and all they did. Also, it's a very in-depth video if anyone is interested.

Oh no not the egg jokes please stop...

Instant buy. I love Dizzy games. The Oliver Twins were the Miyamoto, Sakurai or Kojima of the 80s. I would love a retro collection of their games. Sadly Codemasters have fallen from grace.

Can we have the old games too. Like dizzy rules. Cmon. Give us the lot

I remember playing Dizzy on the ye olde ZX Spectrum 128k+, my friend had an Amiga and it looked amazing on that... probably looks terrible now, but at the time 👌🏼

Dizzy was a magical set of games and it’s criminal people don’t know about it

Best news ever!!!

I am currently reading 'Let's Go Dizzy: The Story of the Oliver Twins' and playing The Oliver Twins Collection for Evercade, so I am unsurprisingly excited by this news!

Let's bring back Seymour too (he was a potato 😂) and CJ's Elephant Antics. I remember my local corner shop used to sell the Codemasters C64 and Spectrum games. Weird times. Imagine being able to buy budget Switch games when you popped out to get some milk.

Another balancing example of 2020 being nuts in a good way, I see. A new Dizzy game, and on Switch to boot? YES, PLEASE.

I've still only played two of the older games to date (got a NES walkthrough for one of them published once, even), but I'm quite fond of the series already. Fantastic Adventures was one of my childhood games as well, although I never finished it until the age of emulation and savescumming much later - it had many brutal sequences including the minecart rides.

@BionicDodo I love the Oliver Twins cart on Evercade, the games are so simple but brilliant

@JHDK Ohh, thanks for the heads up on the Dizzy documentary. I know what I'm watching tonight:

https://youtu.be/rNavFaHANNU

Dizzy wasn’t a big thing here in the US, but I’m actually excited for this. All I’ve ever played in the series was Adventure Island Dizzy on the gold 4 Quattro Action cart.

More of a CJ elephant man myself but great for fans of Dizzy out there!

..@Ooyah No just stop..

I just bought an Evercade and The Olivier Twins Collection the other day

The AVGN will be very happy to see Dizzy back.

@Westlondonmist I completely agree, it's a great cart. Except BMX Simulator as the second track on that is evil and makes me want to throw my Evercade across the room!

It's unfortunate that the NES games seem more well known as they were lacking (some cut down ports) compared to what was released on the home computers and a big shame that the Evercrade Oliver Twins collections only has them.

Never heard of it, but I hope people will have an egg-cellent time.

Used play Treasure Island Dizzy on the Amstrad and Amiga. Excellent budget games

Dizzy is no longer in hiding after Covid makes everyone forget Salmonella.

Who greenlit this Schlock? Lol.

Hurrah!! Such eggsellent news. Ahem. After playing them all on my Speccy and getting the Evercade cart, this will be a day one purchase. I’m wondering if there could be some DLC which included the old (emulated) ZX games? Please??? I’ll crack a smile if it happens.

If it's not running on an Amstrad CPC emulator with the Magicland Dizzy title screen music on a continuous loop then no dice Oliver Twins!

@Gerald @stuie1234 That defining moment when you hear an 8-bit sampled voice saying "Treasure Island Dizzy" through a single tinny mono speaker on a CPC464 ❤ I never could find the final coin in that game though so stayed stuck on the island 😳

I got very excited about this, but then saw a video about The Oliver Twins recreating Fast Food Dizzy in Fuze4 Nintendo Switch, so I suspect that it could be that being released.
I could be wrong, and it's a brand new proper Dizzy game, and if so I'm all over that. But for now I'm hesitant.

Here's the link to the video - https://youtu.be/ArffVxFuCj8

I loved the dizzy game I played as a kid, I remember thinking how clever and interesting it was with loads of exploration and backtracking. I can’t remember the name but it was set in a fairy tale and there were knights and a dragon etc

@Mangaphile I hope not! Or it could be a Switch version of Wonderful Dizzy, the new game they're making for Spectrum Next.

I was playing them on Amstrad CPC 6128. Great games.

Do wish they would bring the old ones, especially Treasure Island Dizzy.
Bring back the magic wall of water!
But yes I will definitely check this out

Now that is surprising but not unwelcome news!
I played both the NES games and the PC one back in the day. Loved the platformer/adventure game mix.

Also

I'm from the US and have never heard of this series until an earlier article on this site started talking up it's supposed importance to gaming history. There are a few other retro British series like that talked about too (if you're from Britain they seem very important, but elsewhere they're virtually unknown), like maybe something called James Pond?

Anyhow, I'm glad for the fans.

@RR529 I'm in the US and have been a fan for decades, in the US, we had several NES Dizzy games and one on Sega Genesis (probably the best one to date). The NES games were unlicensed but were sold at many stores. They seem to be well known here from the people I know, you missed out on some great games.

codemasters were great back then releasing pretty decent games at budget prices. Dizzy was their best known series I would say. For those wondering why this is so popular in Europe, the home PC was very popular mostly because it was an affordable way to play games.

Dizzy was my first video game ‘hero’ back on the Spectrum ZX. I still have Fantastic Dizzy on Mega Drive too! I’d love a collection on Switch, with modern updates like save stated or rewind function. Some of those games were punishing!

Anyone remember the PAC Man clone Fast Food?

@Clyde_Radcliffe Now if this is the case, I'll be over the moon!

Cracking news! It's no yolk that I'm shell shocked by this - I beat a lot ovule oeuf ne-fry heard of Dizzy egg-cross the pond; I'll be scrambling to egg-quire a copy

American here, but I remember this series! Holy cow that brings back memories.... and makes me feel my age.

being nearly 50 and gaming since zx81 I hated that bloody egg

I played ALL the games back in the day, some were great, some not but this series has a very special place in my nostalgia banks 😍. Can’t wait to see what they have in store!

@ShinyUmbreon Poor blighter’s cracking up...

Let's play Dizzy.

Dizzy was one of the first games I ever played. Loved it. Played it on the Atari ST. Floppy disks and joysticks, the good ol days.

I love the Dizzy games I had them all on my Amstrad CPC 464 as a kid, and I recently picked up an evercade for the oliver twins collection. Looking forward to this!

@gamecuber Yes!! I used to love fast food that was great 👍 treasure Island and fantasy world dizzy were my favourites I think.

I for one am disappointed this isn't a game about jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie.

I used to play these games constantly as a child... I'm starting to feel ill thinking about how many years ago that was.

The first time I played Dizzy was at a friends house, and he had a monochrome (green/black 2 color version) of it on the Schneider CPC home computer.

The first game from the Oliver Twins I actually played/bought was BMX Simulator on the C64 datasette, which, as I learnt today, happens to be the predecessor of Micro Machines.

But for these old classics to be added to my Switch catalog, there needs to be a complete Dizzy collection on a cartridge for about 20 bucks. And with complete I mean complete and not like the incomplete split up Turrican, Mega Man or Castlevania collections.

My Swiss cheese memorybanks tell me that I played one of the games of the Dizzy series on the NES.

I think the C64 & Specy gamers used to talk about the game a fair bit (EDIT: as some seem to be here)

Dizzy and the Freescape games kept me on my Speccy in its twilight years (it’s currently entombed in its box in my cupboard along with the games).

Sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but it looks like my prediction is correct. The 'new Dizzy game is a version of Fast Food and the only way to get it is to buy Fuze4 Nintendo Switch. After that you can get the game for free with all the source code to play about with.

I loved Fast Food on the Spectrum, and I already have Fuze, so this is good for me, but it sucks that it can't be accessed as a standalone game so more people can enjoy it.

@Bucket @Mangaphile What a shame it's not a proper adventure game but Fuze seems in the spirit of the home computers of the 80s and maybe I'll find some other stuff worth playing on there if I get it. Does it have like a Top Games bit?

OH GOD, the worst Dizzy game there is... VERY DISSAPPOINTED

@Bunkerneath There are far worse Dizzy games! Down the Rapids was pretty abysmal.

Also, this was known ages ago! It was even mentioned in the recent Slopes Game Room Complete Dizzy video!

I feel like I've been hearing about this FUZE game for ages, one thing I'm confused about is whether it's possible to create art assets for the game? Or will you have to make do with the assets from pack-in games like Dizzy and such?

Disappointing news

@TheDavyStar Yes, there is an image editor to create your own images and animations.

Shame that was so hyped , I would’ve loved to see a new dizzy game on the switch .

Well that sucks. Fast Food Dizzy is my least favorite Dizzy game, and it was a spin off. My excitement has gone from 10 to 0.

Quick someone Summon the Angry Video Game Nerd! he needs to know about this

God, it's got that crappy lazy art style that sooo many modern remakes of classic pixel games go for (or that you see on Flash websites or on many cash-grab mobile Apps and the like). It just looks baaad, like something built on one of those drag and drop code your own game websites for school kids. For Christ sake, I expect more from a new Dizzy game in 2020!

Edit: Wait . . . is that literally what Fuze4 is? I didn't realise until I went back and watched more of the video. Is that the reason behind the game looking the way it does? Oh the sheer irony [probably the wrong word to use here] of my statement being pretty much spot on with the actual truth!

LOL yep the circle of my gaming life is nearly complete! Next.... Horace goes skiing, Horace and the spiders and maybe Death Chase (for all those who know their ZX Spectrum games? )

Shame this is nowhere as good as the original. The 3d objects in the maze obscure food and enemies, the graphics are horrible and the guards can move through food. The graphics are weird, though. There were already Dizzy sprites loaded into Fuze. Why not use those?

Dizzy is fine but it's hard to get into it now. I played some of the games when I got into Amiga emulation and for the most part they are decently made. Just kinda slow moving for a platformer.

@Clyde_Radcliffe not that I've seen. There's a projects page with games and demos, but I haven't seen a way of sorting it

I have been secretly hoping and praying for Dizzy to come to Switch for quite a while now. Looks like my prayers have been heard and answered!

for everyone disappointed by this, this game isn't really made for fans of the series per se; The Oliver Twins explain in the Slopes Game Room episode that this was developed as an example of what Fuze can do, to inspire kids to get into game development. critiquing it as though it is like a series comeback is really silly.

@Creature - Agree. Lots of people excited by this that haven't played Dizzy, Fast Food wasn't a 'classic' dizzy game in the sense of Fantasy World or the original. Really the article should have remarked upon that.

Well I did say Dizzy should be in Smash Bros and that was year 2015 lol

Fast Food Dizzy...

Well that was the quickest I've ever gone from Woooooo! to Boooooo!

😆

Iv been learning to code on Fuze for the past year and still enjoy using it, the Dizzy assets included are really good plus many more! look forward to writing my own dizzy game very soon !

@Damo There's now a proper Dizzy game on the Switch! Not the Fast Food remake but a proper full size adventure game!

It's called Tycoon Dizzy and you need the Fuze 4 Switch software to play it but it looks really good and was 25 years in the making with the creator having drawn maps for it back in the 80s! (You can see what he's written about making it at the beginning of the below videos)

Here's a video of Fuze 4 speaking about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOjzWtnB_vY

And here's a playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOjzWtnB_vY&

Unfortunately you need the paid for Fuze software to play it, but they did say in the comments of the first video that it might be added to the free Fuze 4 Player gallery in the future.

I sent an email to the news tips bit about this too, hopefully you can do a story about it as it would be great for more people to know about it! Seems like the creator put a lot of love into it and I'm very excited to try it when I get a chance.