History VideoGame / Dizzy

* 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. This is a reference and a TakeThat to ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_User Sinclair User]]'' magazine, which gave its predecessor game a poor review.
* JustForPun: Eggscellent egg-related puns and other such yolks feature heavily in the games, to the point of eggstreme eggasperation. On that point, the previous trope might better be called "Yolk Item".
* {{Knockback}}: Things that don't kill Dizzy will often push him back, like the butterflies in ''Fantastic Dizzy''.

* FloatingContinent: 16-bit versions of ''Treasure Island Dizzy'' featured "The Island in the Sky", which was low enough for Dizzy to be able to reach by pogo-stick.

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: In ''Fantastic Dizzy'', Dizzy can't kill anything, but ''everything'', even seemingly innocuous things like butterflies and drops of water, do damage to him.

* GaidenGame: This series got some very odd spinoffs, including ''Fast Food'' (a sort of ''VideoGame/PacMan'' clone) and ''Dizzy Down The Rapids'' (a ''Toobin''' clone.)

* AWinnerIsYou: Currently provides the page quote. From the ending of the first game:

* FinalDeath: ''Treasure Island Dizzy'' was ''notorious'' for this. As you had only one life and [[OneHitPointWonder no health system]], contact with anything harmful at all at ''any'' point is an instant GameOver.
** The first game was no slouch, either. Breaking the grass bridge two screens right from where you started ended your game right there, as did falling in the waiting room, or dropping from a screen above and landing on a hazard, which would reset you straight back onto it until you'd lost all your lives, Jet Set Willy style.

''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.]]) WebVideo/StuartAshen is a fan of ''Treasure Island Dizzy'', the second game in the series, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-RCHyWcfIU as he points out here.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Dylan is named after Music/BobDylan and is implied to be a stoner.

''Dizzy'' is a series of Action-Adventure games created by Andrew Nicholas Oliver and Philip Edward Oliver, also known as the Oliver Twins, and released by Creator/{{Codemasters}} in the UK during the mid [[TheEighties 1980s]] to early [[TheNineties 1990s]].

A series of Action-Adventure games released by Creator/{{Codemasters}} in the UK during the mid [[TheEighties 1980s]] to early [[TheNineties 1990s]].

# ''Dizzy Prince of the Yolkfolk'' (December, 1991)

* AWinnerIsYou: Currently provides the page quote. From the ending of the first game:
--> CONGRATULATIONS! DIZZY HAS RID KATMANDU OF THE EVIL WIZARD ZAKS AND IN DOING SO HAS GAINED THE RESPECT OF WHICH HE IS TRUELY WORTHY! IS THIS DIZZYS ONLY CHALLANGE OR WILL HE BE CALLED UPON AGAIN?

* JustForPun: Eggscellent egg-related puns and other such yolks feature heavily in the games, to the point of eggstreme eggasperation.
** On that point, the previous trope might better be called "Yolk Item".

* PromotedToPlayable: Daisy becomes a playable character in ''Dizzy Down the Rapids''.
** She's also playable in ''Wonderland Dizzy''.

''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]].) WebVideo/StuartAshen is a fan of ''Treasure Island Dizzy'', the second game in the series, as he points out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-RCHyWcfIU here]].

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: All but one of the Yolkfolk; Dizzy, Daisy, Dora, Dylan, Denzil, Dozy... and Grand-Dizzy.

** 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.

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* GaidenGame: This series got some very odd spinoffs, including ''Fast Food'' (a sort of VideoGame/PacMan clone) and ''Dizzy Down The Rapids'' (a ''Toobin''' clone.)

* GaidenGame: This series got some very odd spinoffs, including ''Fast Food'' (a sort of PacMan clone) and ''Dizzy Down The Rapids'' (a ''Toobin''' clone.)

** ''Magic Land Dizzy'' alone has puzzles that reference PacMan, the Billy Goats Gruff, Alice in Wonderland, Lord of the Rings, Aladdin, the legend of King Arthur, the Pied Piper of Hamlin, the Frog Prince, the Wizard of Oz, Sleeping Beauty and probably at least one more that's been forgotten.