Started by DOBRESCU Mihai on 24 March 2017 • 36,275 views
Hi, everyone.
I am attempting to create a history of the Dizzy universe.
I have created the list of Dizzy games that appears below. It should be ordered chronologically, but for the moment only the first few entries are correctly set.
Please let me know if there is any official list of Dizzy games somewhere.
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Please let me know if there is any official list of Dizzy games somewhere.
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{yolkfolk}:scratch:
I don't quite understand what you're trying to achieve here but our Official list is here.
- https://www.yolkfolk.com/games/official
All the release dates are marked on this list.
I don’t quite understand what you’re trying to achieve here
[/quote]Hi, Adz.M.
Thank you for replying to my post.
Alright, I have used a misnomer. By "official" I did not mean the Dizzy games that are protected by copyright owned by Phillip Oliver, by Andrew Oliver and by the Codemasters Software Company Limited.
I would rather use the term "comprehensive" instead. My intent is to chronologically sort the above comprehensive list upon the release date of each game. This way, one could easily see how Dizzy has evolved from "Dizzy I: The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure" released in the month of June of the year of 1987 toward the DizzyAGE series and how the remakes have been issued.
A manual work - which has already been started, as you can see - would use the data found in the following locations:
https://www.yolkfolk.com/games/official
https://www.yolkfolk.com/games/fan
https://www.yolkfolk.com/dizzyage/history.html
An automated approach would use a SQL query such as the following one:
SELECT title, release_date
FROM ( SELECT title, release_date
FROM official_games
UNION ALL
SELECT title, release_date
FROM fan_games )
ORDER BY release_date;
As I do not have access to such an automated approach, I intend to perform this work manually.
I would like to note that the data that is maintained within the Yolk Folk Web-Site is not exhaustive. For instance, there is a Czech version of Dizzy created for the ZX Spectrum microcomputer produced by Sinclair Research Limited that does not appear on this web-site.
There is, unfortunately, another impediment related to the non-English speaking authors, whose sources are more difficult to parse. Also, unfortunately, I do not speak either Czech, or Polish, or Russian. I hope to overcome this issue using Google Translate.
Alright, I have used a misnomer. By “official” I did not mean the Dizzy games that are protected by copyright owned by Phillip Oliver, by Andrew Oliver and by the Codemasters Software Company Limited.
[/quote]You mean Philip and Andrew Oliver? :smile:
I can kinda see what you mean now.Hi, Adz.M.
No, I do not have copies of the games. If I find any, I shall present them to you somehow.
Also, where is "Platform Fever II"?
Hi, Adz.M.
It is sad that so many games have been lost. Let us try to preserve at least what exists in the present.
Hi, Boo.
Yes, I know. It is even documented on Wikipedia at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindizzy_(video_game) Uniform Resource Locator. Still, most of the Dizzy-related websites are listing it in the Dizzy listings. I hoped that there was a Spin Dizzy that I was not aware of.
Consider it removed.
Hi, everyone.
My burdened conscience tells me that I should do something with the numbering of the Dizzy games list, for the sake of our children, of our grandchildren and for all of the generations to come.
The first reason for a good numbering would be that at least a total count of the known Dizzy games should be kept somewhere. Here, our Russian friends are - as always - better equipped, as their Dizzy games lists keep even the platform implementations. My list does not say anything about that. It just aims to cover all the Dizzy paraphernalia in all the known virtual universes.
So, if a little child ever asks anyone how many Dizzy games are out there, on the Internet, an approximate answer would be 396. This number includes all of the remakes. Without remakes, my initial post in this thread led to a smaller number. An even greater number would be produced by including the platform implementations.
Through platform implementations I mean listing all the possible microcomputer architectures on which the games are running: 8-bit (ZX Spectrum by Sinclair Research Limited, C64 by Commodore, Amiga, Atari, Amstrad CPC, Nintendo NES, Gameboy Advance), 32-bit and 64-bit (IBM-PC: DOSBox and DizzyAGE). This would lead to another difficult investigation in the non-English Dizzy sites.
Therefore, I have kept the first series of Arabian numerical identifiers (001-396). They are just kept for reference. I doubt that anyone will use them. People will probably continue searching for games using character strings.
My initial approach was to also keep the second series of Roman numerical identifiers (I - CCCXCVI). This is both tedious and useless. The only use that I could think of is to chronologically order the first Dizzy games that were known and referred using their Roman numerical identifiers (I - XII). However, after chronologically ordering the whole list, I have got the surprise to see that - probably because of lack of data - people have misnumbered them. Now, the Roman numerical identifiers appear chronologically as follows below.
I think that I have finally got it. The Roman numbering is actually correct. It is just that some Roman numeric identifiers are not really Roman at all, but they are rather simple letters. This way, Y would stand for XI (11). XII (12) comes naturally this way. The only one that breaks the numbering is XX that could be understood as X-Bis and not as 20 - like a joke.
There are other letters used for designing Dizzy games, such as Dizzy A, Dizzy B, Dizzy R, Dizzy X, Dizzy Y, Dizzy Z, Dizzy XP, Dizzy XX.
Dizzy I
Dizzy II
Dizzy III
Dizzy IV
Dizzy V
Dizzy III.V (One would expect that this would have occurred before Dizzy IV.)
Dizzy VI
Dizzy VII
Dizzy VII+ or Dizzy VIII
Dizzy VII++ or Dizzy IX
Dizzy X Part I
Dizzy X Part II (Dizzy Y or Dizzy XI)
Dizzy XX (This one is now understood as Dizzy X-Bis and not as Dizzy 20.)
Dizzy XII
This being said, I am presenting the Comprehensive List of Dizzy Games at the end of this post. There are still some things that I want to do.
The first thing that I still have to do is to dig within the Dizzy history web pages and come up with the points and with the places that some of the Dizzy games have won during the contests and to update the list accordingly. For the moment, the list has incomplete data in this respect.
The second thing - which is harder to achieve - is to go on with Adz.M's idea to find out the missing games. They may be more that I am aware of, but, for the moment, I am aware only of four Dizzy games that are not present in the https://www.yolkfolk.com domain.
The difficulty lies in something that I have noticed recently. I am maintaining a nice subscription to a Romanian-localized version of the "Peter Norton Security Online" Antiviral Software Suite. It has warned me before that websites such as the World of Spectrum are reported as unsafe. I have ignored this warning and, eventually, I have caught up a Trojan Horse. The before-mentioned nice piece of Antiviral Software Suite has successfully removed it, but how do I know that I am not infecting myself and other Dizzy gamers in the future?
This trickiest part would also gather data about the various platform implementations.
Hi, FrogAndHat.
Yes, the idea did cross my mind that not all of the 396 Dizzy games are strictly games with Dizzy as a superstar or at least with some of the Yolk Folk characters (Daisy, Dora and so on). The problem is that I do not know all of these 396 Dizzy games. I am now playing only my fifteenth Dizzy game, so I am just a newbie with an insignificant knowledge of only about 5% of the total Dizzy universe.
I have removed so far only a single game that was featuring only Seymour. I have saved a Dizzy game featuring both Dizzy and Seymour.
I did not know anything about Spud. I thought he might be Dizzy's grandson or something. Of course, I am removing it.
About "Mystic Belle" I had only a small Russian note that specified that it is 15 MB in size, probably huge for a small adventure game. I am removing it also.
This is not my list. If it had been strictly only mine, I would have kept it only for myself. I welcome any criticism that is brought to its faults.
Boo has already certified that Spindizzy is also not a Dizzy game and I have removed it.
I do not want to venture into removing any other Dizzy games only based on their titles because that road could be misleading. The titles might not contain Dizzy's name and yet the games could be Dizzy or Yolk Folk related.
If anybody finds any other non-Dizzy games, please just let me know and I shall remove them.
Initially, I was interested only in the list of Dizzy adventure games, but I have preserved the Dizzy arcade games just because they were featuring Dizzy or the other Yolk Folk eggs.
Note that by removing some titles, the numbering will be messed up. Some holes will be created due to the removal of the non-Dizzy games. I shall have to renumber a few games at the end of the list in order to fill in those holes.
I have removed so far only a single game that was featuring only Seymour. I have saved a Dizzy game featuring both Dizzy and Seymour.
[/quote]Just out of curiosity, what was that Seymour title you removed from the list?
Hi, Adz.M.
Alright, I have removed "Block Dizzy", "Dizzy Dice" and "Dizzy Lord".
Let us see. The problem with "The Adventures of Dizzy Junior" is that its title appears on the https://www.yolkfolk.com web-site only in the screen-shot of "Sacred World Dizzy".
While I was compiling the list, I had a few Dizzy games lists that I had to merge. Because I am not entirely a machine yet, I did not merge these two titles accordingly.
I have now removed the separate entry for "The Adventures of Dizzy Junior" from the list and I have added this alias: 2,011-01-DD: "Sacred World Dizzy".
There is a problem with the aliases, for the newbies. Nowhere on the https://yolkfolk.com website it is mentioned that "Dizzy II: Treasure Island Dizzy" is the same one as "Magic Island Dizzy". Google is my best friend, in this respect.
This actually inserts an ambiguity. Now I have two - hopefully different - entries that can be both addressed as "Magic Island Dizzy":
1,988-08-DD: "Dizzy II: Treasure Island Dizzy (Magic Island Dizzy)
1,992-09-DD: "Dizzy - Magic Island"
I have already removed "Spud's Quest". If it is considered appropriate, I can also remove the Giddy series.
Also, nowhere on the https://www.yolkfolk.com web-site it is mentioned that there is an IBM-PC Remake of "Dizzy III: Fantasy World Dizzy" that is playable through DOSBox. I have played it recently and I have marked it within the list as Y,YYY-MM-DD: "Dizzy III.C: Fantasy World Dizzy" (DOSBox Remake). I guess that this is just the tip of the iceberg of the set of Dizzy games that belong to different platform implementations.
Actually, I was wrong. The https://www.yolkfolk.com web-site does not store the IBM-PC version, but it does list its existence within the "Release Formats" list as "IBM-PC Compatibles: MS-DOS" and it provides a screenshot that is common both for Atari-ST and for IBM-PC MS-DOS. The binary executable file that I have found on abandonware websites is called as "FANTASY.EXE". So this is actually not a remake, but rather it is simply the platform implementation on IBM-PC MS-DOS at that time.
The Seymour game that I have removed was "Seymour – Take One" (Amstrad CPC/ZX Spectrum). This entry was in a Russian list. When I was a teenager, I remember having played this one and "Seymour at the Movies". They were a lot shorter than the Dizzy adventure games.
It is funny to note that this whole seeking process has started from the fact that I was frustrated that I did not know either of the Czech language, the Polish language or the Russian language and I just wanted to play some more Dizzy adventure games. I had no idea that there were 396 of them already out there.
Hi, everyone.
Finally, I have achieved my goal.
The list is finally finished!
For my last wish, the one of inserting also the won prizes and won points within the contests, I hoped that I would be able to find sufficient information on the Dizzy historical web pages. Unfortunately, they have been overwritten each year.
I have looked again into the details of the Dizzy games and also on Wikipedia for prizes that have been awarded by computer magazines such as "Your Sinclair", "Crash", "Zzap!64", "Eurogamer" and "Amstrad Action". I have inserted all the data that I could find.
I have also inserted a few more dates related to the beginning and to the ending of the various contests.
I have understood that within the https://www.yolkfolk.com domain whatever I was referring to as "platform implementations" are referred to as "release formats". Therefore, I shall also use the "release formats" term from now on.
I have removed the "Mystic Belle" title, the "Spud" title, the "Giddy" series of titles, the two "Poonsy" titles and the "Clover" title from the list.
Also, the author of the comprehensive list of Dizzy games warmly invites any honest criticism. Any found faults will be corrected, once they are proved to be accurate.
I have introduced the release formats within the list. This way, the Dizzy game count has risen to 396. I am presenting the Comprehensive List of Dizzy Games.
If you are curious about the distribution of the Release Formats within the 396 titles, here is the list:
1 Google Android
1 Gameboy Advance
1 Sega: Master System
1 Sega: Mega Drive
1 Unknown Release Format
2 Apple Macintosh iOS
4 Sega: Game Gear
6 Flash Player
9 Nintendo: NES
11 IBM-PC Compatibles: MS-DOS
12 Atari ST
13 Sinclair ZX Spectrum TR-DOS
14 Amiga
15 Amstrad CPC
15 Commodore C64
27 Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128 KB
30 Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48 KB
94 Microsoft Windows 32 bits
133 DizzyAGE
Hi, everyone.
Please note that 45 titles (12 %) are marked as "(Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )". Therefore, only 345 titles are currently present within the https://www.yolkfolk.com web-site.
Also, apparently it is possible that there are other titles on the http://www.dizzy.pl web-site that are not on the list.
I hope that as many missing Dizzy games as possible will be found in the near future. Needless to say that anybody is welcome to say whether they have these missing titles or whether they have heard anything at all about them.
Initially, I wanted to create a separate thread for the 45 titles that are not on the https://www.yolkfolk.com web-site. However, for the moment I am pasting the pieces of information that I have found about them here. If it is considered appropriate, a "Lost and Found" thread can be created using this data.
Out of the 45 missing titles, I have found 23 of them using the Google search engine and marked them with the "Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com, but I have found it with Google" character string. Therefore, only 22 titles are really missing and marked with the "I could not find this title yet" character string.
12 out of the 18 missing titles from the category "Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48 KB" listed above can be found in the private collection of another Romanian, George Chirtoacă, who still keeps them freely downloadable from the Uniform Resource Locator http://sites.google.com/site/georgechirtoaca/software/Dizzy.zip?attredirects=0 within a "Dizzy.zip" archive.
Since most of the Romanian Sinclair ZX Spectrum unofficial clones (HC-85, HC-88, HC-90, HC-91, HC-2000, CIP-01, CIP-02, CIP-03, CIP-04, Tim-S, Cobra, Junior, Jet, Prae, Cub) were 48 KB-based, also George Chirtoacă's "Dizzy.zip" archive contains only 48 KB ".tap" binary files.
Also, please note that out of the 396 overall known titles, 19 of them (5 %) are not dated and they appear within the list preceded by the "Y,YYY-MM-DD" character string. All of the remaining 371 titles have at least the year as a known part of the release date.
This is the distribution of the 45 missing titles based on their release formats.
1 Unknown Release Format
1 Sega: Game Gear
1 Amiga
1 DizzyAGE
4 Microsoft Windows 32 bits
5 Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128 KB
6 Sinclair ZX Spectrum TR-DOS
8 IBM-PC Compatibles: MS-DOS
18 Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48 KB
This is the list of the 45 missing titles, ordered by their release formats.
1 Unknown Release Format
Y,YYY-MM-DD: "Dizzy for zx-pk.ru" (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com ) (Is it a ZX Spectrum 48K title?)
The only data that I have found out about this title so far lies at the http://dizzy.ucoz.ru/walk/dizzyfor.txt Uniform Resource Locator, in the Russian Language. Using Google Translate, I have gotten the following walk-through:
"Go to the right and on the cloud, take a coin. Give it to someone in the bottom left corner. It will turn into the drive and try escape, you need to have time to catch it, or will have to start over again. Give the resulting disk to the programmer. get tablet strength. Eat it and break the stone on the left to get a coin. Go right and break the stone dam. Give coin penguins. Go right and talk to the badger. Go left and talk to Bart administrator. Left from a place where there was a stone wall, grab the mushrooms. Give them to the administrator. Go down and pick up the fallen pass. Give it a badger."
It looks to be either an incomplete game, or just a demo version. The http://zx-pk.ru Russian web-site seems to be somehow related to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum microcomputer.
I could not find this title yet.
1 Sega: Game Gear
1,991-04-DD: FAD.d: "Fantastic Dizzy (Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy)" (Sega: Game Gear) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://coolrom.com/roms/gamegear/7353/Fantastic_Dizzy.php Uniform Resource Locator within the "Fantastic Dizzy.zip" archive as the "Fantastic Dizzy.gg" binary file. One needs an emulator to play this title.
1 Amiga
1,994-01-DD: (Dizzy VII++ or Dizzy IX:) "Christmas Dizzy" (Amiga) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
This seems to be a magazine game. At the http://www.samsolutions.co.uk/dizzy/games/magazine-games.htm Uniform Resource Locator, it is written the following story:
"This game was given away with Amiga Power Issue 33 (it was on Disk 1). It was basically a preview of Fantastic Dizzy for the Amiga and contained one of the "game maps" and the sliding puzzle subgame."
You have everything about this title at the http://hol.abime.net/496 Uniform Resource Locator. There, it appears under the "Fantastic Dizzy" title, with the "Christmas Dizzy" pre-release name. This web page has loads of information about this title and links towards other websites, which in turn also seem to maintain a lot of information about this title.
I could not find this title yet.
1 DizzyAGE
2,011-03-22: "Time Travel Dizzy" (DizzyAGE) (Lost) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
Adz.M once said that this demo title has been somehow lost.
I could not find this title yet.
4 Microsoft Windows 32 bits
Y,YYY-MM-DD: "Platform Fever II" (Windows 32bit) (Lost) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
Adz.M once said that this title has been somehow lost.
I could not find this title yet.
2,003-MM-DD: "Jungleland Dizzy" (Demo) (Windows 32bit) (Lost) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
Adz.M. once said that this title somehow was deleted from the https://www.yolkfolk.com web-site and it does not have any backup.
I could not find this title yet.
2,006-01-DD: "Dizzy R" (Windows 32bit) (Lost) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
I forgot how I have found out that this title has been lost.
I could not find this title yet.
2,007-12-DD: DATP.a: "Dizzy and the Pit" (Windows 32bit) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
I could not find this title yet.
5 Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128 KB
1,991-01-DD: Dizzy III.V.b: "Into Magicland" (ZX Spectrum 128 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
I could not find this title yet.
1,993-MM-DD: (Dizzy VII+ or Dizzy VIII.a:) "Last Will Dizzy: The Last Adventure" (ZX Spectrum 128 KB) (Not in https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://www.zx-spectrum.cz/data/games/files/s.php?id=Dizzy9.zip Uniform Resource Locator within the "Dizzy9.zip" archive as the "Dizzy9.tap" binary file with a size of 46,645 bytes.
This title should not be confused with the "Dizzy9.tap" binary file with a size of 25,642 bytes that is included within the "Dizzy.zip" archive that is downloadable from the http://sites.google.com/site/georgechirtoaca/software/Dizzy.zip?attredirects=0 Uniform Resource Locator.
1,995-MM-DD: DD.a: "Drunk Dizzy" (Russian) (Demo) (ZX Spectrum 128 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
I could not find this title yet.
1,995-MM-DD: DXX.a: "Dizzy XX: Hell in Paradise Island" (Demo) (ZX Spectrum 128 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
The World of Spectrum web-site contradicts itself. It lists this title as "Original publication: Freeware" and yet also as "Availability: Distribution denied".
I could not find this title yet.
1,999-12-DD: DY2K.a: "Dizzy and the Y2K Predicament" (ZX Spectrum 128 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
I could not find this title yet.
6 Sinclair ZX Spectrum TR-DOS
1,992-01-DD: RTM.c: "Dizzy - Return to Magicland" (ZX Spectrum: TR-DOS) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
I could not find this title yet.
1,994-01-DD: DX.d: Dizzy X Part I: "Journey to Russia" (ZX Spectrum: TR-DOS) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
I could not find this title yet.
1,995-01-DD: DY.d: (Dizzy XI:) Dizzy X Part II: "Return to Russia" (Dizzy Y) (ZX Spectrum: TR-DOS) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
I could not find this title yet.
1,998-04-DD: HID.a: "Home Island Dizzy" (ZX Spectrum: TR-DOS) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
I could not find this title yet.
2,005-MM-DD: DF.c: "Dizzy Forever" (Russian) (ZX Spectrum: TR-DOS) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/trdos/games/DizzyForever.trd.zip Uniform Resource Locator within the "DizzyForever.trd.zip" archive as the "DIZZY_FR.TRD" TR-DOS binary file.
Y,YYY-MM-DD: ALJ.c: "Dizzy: A Little Joke" (ZX Spectrum: TR-DOS) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
I could not find this title yet.
8 IBM-PC Compatibles: MS-DOS
1,987-12-DD: FF.g. "Fast Food" (IBM-PC Compatibles: MS-DOS) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://www.myabandonware.com/download/na-fast-food Uniform Resource Locator within the "fast-food.zip" archive as the "FASTFOOD.EXE" executable binary file.
1,989-10-DD: Dizzy III.g: "Fantasy World Dizzy" (IBM-PC Compatibles: MS-DOS) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://www.myabandonware.com/download/15e-fantasy-world-dizzy Uniform Resource Locator within the "fantasy-world-dizzy.zip" archive as the "FANTASY.EXE" executable binary file.
1,990-11-DD: KS.g: "Kwik Snax" (IBM-PC Compatibles: MS-DOS) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://www.myabandonware.com/download/1x9-kwik-snax Uniform Resource Locator within the "kwik-snax.zip" archive as the "kwiksnax.exe" executable binary file.
1,993-MM-DD: BD.g: "Bubble Dizzy" (IBM-PC Compatibles: MS-DOS) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://www.myabandonware.com/download/1wf-bubble-dizzy Uniform Resource Locator within the "bubble-dizzy.zip" archive as 15 binary files.
1,993-MM-DD: Dizzy IV.g: "Magicland Dizzy" (IBM-PC Compatibles: MS-DOS) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://www.myabandonware.com/download/1um-magicland-dizzy Uniform Resource Locator within the "magicland-dizzy.zip" archive as the "magic.exe" executable binary file.
1,994-MM-DD: FAD.f: "Fantastic Dizzy (Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy)" (IBM-PC Compatibles: MS-DOS) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://www.myabandonware.com/download/26n-the-fantastic-adventures-of-dizzy Uniform Resource Locator within the "the-fantastic-adventures-of-dizzy.zip" archive as 12 files.
2,005-11-DD: DPR.a: "Panic Dizzy" (Remake) (IBM-PC Compatibles: MS-DOS) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
I could not find this title yet.
1,991-12-DD: Dizzy VI.g: "Prince of the Yolkfolk" (IBM-PC Compatibles: MS-DOS) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://www.myabandonware.com/download/1pl-dizzy-prince-of-the-yolkfolk Uniform Resource Locator within the "dizzy-prince-of-the-yolkfolk.zip" archive as the "FOLK.EXE" executable binary file.
18 Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48 KB
1,989-10-DD: Dizzy III.a: "Fantasy World Dizzy" (ZX Spectrum 48 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google; "Your Sinclair".2004.Twenty-fifth best game of all time; "Eurogamer".9/10; "Amstrad Action".89%)
I have found this title at the http://sites.google.com/site/georgechirtoaca/software/Dizzy.zip?attredirects=0 Uniform Resource Locator within the "Dizzy.zip" archive as the "Dizzy3.tap" binary file.
1,990-11-DD: BD.a: "Bubble Dizzy" (ZX Spectrum 48 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://sites.google.com/site/georgechirtoaca/software/Dizzy.zip?attredirects=0 Uniform Resource Locator within the "Dizzy.zip" archive as the "DizzyBubbl.tap" binary file.
1,990-12-DD: Dizzy IV.a: "Magicland Dizzy" (ZX Spectrum 48 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google; "Your Sinclair".2004.Twelfth best game of all time)
I have found this title at the http://sites.google.com/site/georgechirtoaca/software/Dizzy.zip?attredirects=0 Uniform Resource Locator within the "Dizzy.zip" archive as the "Dizzy4.tap" binary file.
1,991-04-DD: DDR.a: "Dizzy Down the Rapids" (ZX Spectrum 48 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://sites.google.com/site/georgechirtoaca/software/Dizzy.zip?attredirects=0 Uniform Resource Locator within the "Dizzy.zip" archive as the "DizzyRapid.tap" binary file.
1,991-05-DD: DP.a: "Dizzy Panic (Panic Dizzy)" (ZX Spectrum 48 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://sites.google.com/site/georgechirtoaca/software/Dizzy.zip?attredirects=0 Uniform Resource Locator within the "Dizzy.zip" archive as the "DizzyPanic.tap" binary file.
1,991-12-DD: Dizzy VI.a: "Prince of the Yolkfolk" (ZX Spectrum 48 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://sites.google.com/site/georgechirtoaca/software/Dizzy.zip?attredirects=0 Uniform Resource Locator within the "Dizzy.zip" archive as the "Dizzy6.tap" binary file.
1,992-01-DD: RTM.b: "Dizzy - Return to Magicland" (ZX Spectrum 48 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://sites.google.com/site/georgechirtoaca/software/Dizzy.zip?attredirects=0 Uniform Resource Locator within the "Dizzy.zip" archive as the "DizzyRetML.tap" binary file.
1,992-12-DD: Dizzy VII.a: "Crystal Kingdom Dizzy" (ZX Spectrum 48 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google; April 1993: UK number-one Spectrum game; "Your Sinclair" Readers Top 100 Games of All Time.70/100)
I have found this title at the http://sites.google.com/site/georgechirtoaca/software/Dizzy.zip?attredirects=0 Uniform Resource Locator within the "Dizzy.zip" archive as the "Dizzy7.tap" binary file.
Y,YYY-MM-DD: "Czech Dizzy" (ZX Spectrum 48 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games/d/Dizzy.tzx.zip Uniform Resource Locator within the "Dizzy.tzx.zip" archive as the "Dizzy.tzx" binary file.
1,993-MM-DD: (Dizzy VII+ or Dizzy VIII.b:) "Last Will Dizzy: The Last Adventure" (ZX Spectrum 48 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://sites.google.com/site/georgechirtoaca/software/Dizzy.zip?attredirects=0 Uniform Resource Locator within the "Dizzy.zip" archive as the "Dizzy9.tap" binary file.
1,994-01-DD: DX.c: Dizzy X Part I: "Journey to Russia" (ZX Spectrum 48 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://sites.google.com/site/georgechirtoaca/software/Dizzy.zip?attredirects=0 Uniform Resource Locator within the "Dizzy.zip" archive as the "DizzyDizzyX.tap" binary file.
1,995-01-DD: DY.c: (Dizzy XI:) Dizzy X Part II: "Return to Russia" (Dizzy Y) (ZX Spectrum 48 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://sites.google.com/site/georgechirtoaca/software/Dizzy.zip?attredirects=0 Uniform Resource Locator within the "Dizzy.zip" archive as the "DizzyDizzyY.tap" binary file.
1,995-MM-DD: DD.b: "Drunk Dizzy" (Russian) (Demo) (ZX Spectrum 48 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
I could not find this title yet.
1,995-MM-DD: DXX.b: "Dizzy XX: Hell in Paradise Island" (Demo) (ZX Spectrum 48 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
I could not find this title yet.
2,001-01-DD: DXII.b: Dizzy XII: "Dizzy Underground" (Original) (ZX Spectrum 48 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
I could not find this title yet.
2,002-07-DD: TDZ.b: "The Dizzy Zone" (ZX Spectrum 48 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
I could not find this title yet.
2,005-MM-DD: DF.b: "Dizzy Forever" (Russian) (ZX Spectrum 48 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com )
I could not find this title yet.
Y,YYY-MM-DD: ALJ.b: "Dizzy: A Little Joke" (ZX Spectrum 48 KB) (Not on https://www.yolkfolk.com , but I have found it with Google)
I have found this title at the http://sites.google.com/site/georgechirtoaca/software/Dizzy.zip?attredirects=0 Uniform Resource Locator within the "Dizzy.zip" archive as the "Dizzy8.tap" binary file.
I think I can help with this update.
Just to point out that if you've been using the search engine on Yolkfolk, in some places it provides outdated links.
Adventureland Dizzy" (2,001 Demo) (Broken Link)
The broken link has been fixed.:egg: https://www.yolkfolk.com/games/adventureland-dizzy-2001-demo
Dizzy R" (Windows 32bit) (Lost) (Not in YolkFolk.com)
This game isn't lost it all, it can be found here and the download link has been tested.
(Although it used to be called 'Dizzy R Remake', but I recently updated and renamed it to just 'Dizzy R'.):egg: https://www.yolkfolk.com/games/dizzy-r-1
"Dizzy and the Pit" (Windows 32bit) (Not in YolkFolk.com)
This game was only made in Flash, the release format marked on the site is possibly an error.
One last thing, some of the Spectrum titles you've listed as "not on Yolkfolk.com". The later Spectrum model and the Emulators are able to play the same certain Dizzy ROM on either 128k or 48k.
So technically, some of the 48k games are on Yolkfolk, It's just the site labels them in a way to say which games work in 128k mode.
Hi, Adz.M.
Thank you for replying to my post and for your valuable comments.
I agree with everything that you have said and I have already updated the list accordingly.
However, there is an exception. I do not agree with you regarding the titles that belong to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum release formats.
My idea was like this. If a title is marked within the https://www.yolkfolk.com web-site as having all of the three possible Sinclair ZX Spectrum release formats (48 KB, 128 KB, and TR-DOS), then I would have to go out there and try to find all of the three different-sized files.
Why? Let me give you my recent experience.
After twenty-five years, I have played "Dizzy V: Spellbound Dizzy", because it is huge (well, not as huge as "Dizzy and Zaks' Ring" that I have just finished tonight) and the original Sinclair ZX Spectrum release formats do not have the feature of saving the game state. So, twenty-five years ago I left it unfinished and this time I really wanted to finish it.
Since I have found a very nice Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator, namely "Spectaculator", that can save the whole memory at once and that can also insert POKE's into the emulated microcomputer memory, I have nicely finished the game.
To my surprise, I have seen a recording of the game afterward where it looked completely different! Dizzy was wearing an aqualung and the screens were from times to times commented by scrolls found on the way. I was completely disappointed! While browsing the Wikipedia entry for the game, I have found out that the 128 KB version of the game had a few features that the 48 KB version did not have! For instance, it had different power-ups: bananas, strawberries and not just plain apples.
Due to this poor and disappointing gaming experience, I have decided that I do not want to trick the gamers at all. Of course, I understand your point, it is very logical. Basically, any 48 KB game can be played on a 128 KB microcomputer. The vice-versa situation might not always be true. However, I prefer to let the list be like this in this respect, just in order to be as precise as possible.
The best example in this respect is the title 1,993-MM-DD: (Dizzy VII+ or Dizzy VIII.a:) "Last Will Dizzy: The Last Adventure". For this title, I have found two "Dizzy9.tap" binary files. The first one has a size of 25,642 bytes for the 48 KB version. The second one has a size of 46,645 bytes for the 128 KB version. This case is as clear as it can be.
There is another situation where I feel that I might be tricking the gamers. I do not speak the Polish language at all. Well, I know that "Always Coca-Cola" is something like "Zawsze Coca-Cola". However, I have browsed tonight the twenty-six web pages of the http://www.dizzy.pl web-site and I have found out some Polish-only titles that seem not to be within the https://www.yolkfolk.com web-site. If I were truly an egoistic fellow, I would just ignore them completely. But, since there are a lot of Polish gamers out there (and Poland is geographically bigger than Romania), I intend to include those titles in the list as well, soon.
Hi, everyone.
I have found eight more Dizzy games that are present within the http://www.dizzy.pl website and that are not present within the https://www.yolkfolk.com website.
The game details appear within the twenty-six web-pages that start with the http://www.dizzy.pl/gry/gry/gry.shtml Uniform Resource Locator.