History VideoGame / Dizzy

** The GrandFinale of almost every single game usually involves a map-long Fetch Quest from one end to the other, usually as far as it's possible to go, and usually back again. (''Magic Land'', for example; go to Hades, get Wizardslayer Trident; traverse map to the top of the Ice Tower, use Trident, get Zaks' Ring; traverse map back to The Cracks Of Gehenna, [[Literature/LordOfTheRings throw Ring into lava]]. Then start hunting for the [[LastLousyPoint Last Lousy Diamond...]])

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Dizzy kills Zaks this way using the (rather conveniently-themed) Wizardslayer Trident in ''Magicland Dizzy''. However, since [[SoulJar he has his soul sealed in a ring that's left behind after he vanishes]], he doesn't truly die until [[Literature/LordOfTheRings you take the ring and throw it into a lava pit]].

* SuperDrowningSkills: In almost all mainline games. ''Treasure Island Dizzy'' introduced a snorkel, which sort of helps. Unless you accidentally drop it underwater, of course. ''Spellbound Dizzy'' and ''Fantastic Dizzy'' avert the trope (the latter -- except the few water bodies that act as {{BottomlessPit}}s).

* SuperDrowningSkills: ''Treasure Island Dizzy'' introduced a snorkel, which sort of helps. Unless you accidentally drop it underwater, of course.

** One thing that caught players out often in ''Treasure Island Dizzy'' was accidentally removing the snorkel when underwater, which would cause instant death via Dizzy's SuperDrowningSkills.

** The second game, ''Treasure Island Dizzy'', was ''foul'' with this. You're a One Hit Point Wonder with One Life - anything dangerous is ''instant'' End Of Game. Including those wretched cage traps hidden off screen in the trees.

* InventoryManagementPuzzle: Pervades throughout the series, but the strict FIFO system in ''Treasure Island Dizzy'' is particularly heinous. Especially as a bug in the system would ''occasionally'' make you drop two items at once... bye bye, snorkel *drowns*

* UnwinnableByDesign: There's a trap in the ground in ''The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure'' which you have to jump over to avoid triggering. Set it off, and an uncrossable chasm opens. It is impossible to reset the trap, even by deliberately dying, so your hopes of winning end there and then.

* FollowTheLeader: Dizzy's success led to many similar arcade adventure games, a lot of them also published by Codemasters. Examples include ''Murray Mouse: Supercop'', ''Spike in Transilvania'' (sic) and the Seymour series.

* TheMerch: At the peak of Dizzy's popularity, the game inlays offered Dizzy merchandise including t-shirts, baseball caps and clocks for sale by mail order.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Dylan is named after Bob Dylan and is implied to be a stoner.

* BorderPatrol: The Harpy's Erie in ''Fantasy World''. The harpy is there purely to ensure that you don't go too high on the puffs of volcano steam.

* InterfaceScrew: You travel through the looking glass for a couple of screens in ''Magic Land Dizzy'', and the left-right controls promptly switch.

* JustForPun: Eggscellent Egg-related puns and other such yolks feature heavily in the games, to the point of eggstreme eggasperation.

* JokeItem: The "Sinclair Abuser Mag" in ''Treasure Island Dizzy'' is completely useless, although you get points bonus if you drop it in the sea.
* JustForPun: Egg-related puns feature heavily in the games, to the point of eggstreme eggasperation.

* JokeItem: The "Sinclair Abuser Mag" in ''Treasure Island Dizzy'' is completely useless, although you get a points bonus if you drop it in the sea.
* JustForPun: Egg-related puns feature heavily in the games, to the point of eggstreme eggsasperation.

''Fantasy World Dizzy'', the third game in the series, [[BigNameFan is famously adored by]] [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] - if ironically and through a heavy dose of NostalgiaFilter. (He does a LetsPlay of the game on his blog: [[http://fullyramblomatic-yahtzee.blogspot.com/2012/02/eggs-on-legs.html Part 1]], [[http://fullyramblomatic-yahtzee.blogspot.com/2012/02/eggs-on-additional-legs.html Part 2]].) StuartAshen is a fan of ''Treasure Island Dizzy'', the second game in the series, as he points out [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-RCHyWcfIU here]].

* DistressedDamsel: Daisy's usual role. To some extent, the rest of the Yolkfolk.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Egg-related puns feature heavily in the games, to the point of eggstreme eggsasperation.

* InventoryManagementPuzzle: Pervades throughout the series, but the strict FIFO system in ''Treasure Island Dizzy'' is particularly heinous. Especially as a bug in the system would ''occasionally'' make you drop two items at once... bye bye snorkel *drowns*

* PortableHole: You can pick one up, but as soon as you pick it up - and store it in your bag - there's a hole in your bag, so everything falls out of it. [[MindScrew Including the hole]].