The Excellent Dizzy Collection
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| Developer(s) | Interactive Studios |
| Publisher(s) | Codemasters |
| Designer(s) | The Oliver twins |
| Release date(s) | November 1993 |
| Genre(s) | Action game, Puzzle Game, Adventure game |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Platform(s) | Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear |
The Excellent Dizzy Collection is a video game compilation published by Codemasters in November 1993. The title includes three stand alone games, based on the video game character Dizzy created by the Oliver Twins. The compilation contains, Dizzy the Adventurer, Panic Dizzy and the previously unreleased Go! Dizzy Go! This became the last Dizzy game to ever be released.
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[edit] Background
After the failure of the Aladdin Deck Enhancer, Camerica was forced to close down, and Codemasters was in financial trouble. As a result many staff left the Oliver twins' software company, Interactive Studios, who were unable to find replacements. Dizzy The Adventurer was freely bundled with the Aladdin, and three other titles were being developed for it; Dreamworld Pogie, Go! Dizzy Go! and Wonderland Dizzy, however after the Aladdin was abandoned, the Oliver twins to bring in some revenue quickly intended to release all four (when completed) on the Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear. However, Codemasters wasn’t comfortable releasing each as a full priced stand alone title, so forced the twins to combine them into a compilation, however only three could fit. The twins abandoned the non Dizzy oriented game, Dreamworld Pogie and intended to release the action game Go! Dizzy Go! and the two adventure games Wonderland Dizzy and Dizzy The Adventurer. However Codemasters marketing team informed the twins they couldn’t release two adventure games on the one compilation. The twins felt the previously released Dizzy The Adventurer, was the stronger title and conveniently didn’t require any further work on it, and as a replacement for Wonderland Dizzy the twins included the previously released Panic Dizzy.
After The Excellent Dizzy Collection was released, the Oliver twins left Codemasters for another publisher and with the intellectual property split between Codemasters and the Oliver twins no more Dizzy games were ever produced, although both companies have since said they would like to revisit the series. Both Dreamworld Pogie and the final Dizzy game, Wonderland Dizzy remain unreleased.
[edit] Games
[edit] Dizzy the Adventurer
Dizzy the Adventurer is an enhanced version of the previously released Dizzy Prince of the Yolkfolk that was bundled with the Aladdin Deck Enhancer for the Oliver twin's publisher (Codemasters/Camerica) ill-fated NES peripheral. However, the title had not been released on the Sega platforms so was originally going to be released separately, however publisher Codemasters was uncomfortable releasing it separately at full price so was included as part of The Excellent Dizzy Collection.
[edit] Panic Dizzy
The game was originally released as a stand alone product as, Dizzy Panic! for the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 however was included as a last minute replacement for Wonderland Dizzy. Publisher, Codemasters felt two Adventure games shouldn’t be included on the one compilation so the Oliver twins decided to leave Dizzy the Adventurer and replace (the still unreleased) Wonderland Dizzy the with Panic Dizzy to complement the other two styles of game.
[edit] Go! Dizzy Go!
Go! Dizzy Go! was originally to be released on the NES for the Aladdin however due to its unexpected failure the title was then going to be released as a stand alone title for the Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear. However publisher, Codemasters was uncomfortable releasing it separately at full price so was included as part of The Excellent Dizzy Collection.
The game involves is an arcade style puzzle game where the player must navigate the player through a series of mazes similar to the Adventures of Lolo series.
