Fantasy World Dizzy

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Fantasy World Dizzy
Art recycled for the US release of Fantastic Dizzy.
Art recycled for the US release of Fantastic Dizzy.
Developer(s) The Oliver twins
Publisher(s) Codemasters
Platform(s) Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, DOS
Release date October 1989
Genre(s) Arcade adventure
Mode(s) Single player
Screenshot of the loading screen.
Screenshot of the loading screen.

Fantasy World Dizzy is an arcade adventure video game designed by the Oliver twins featuring the character Dizzy released in October 1989 by Codemasters.

The game is considered the third in the Dizzy series and was even developed under the name Dizzy 3', because the third game in the series Fast Food Dizzy was not an arcade adventure game and deviated from the Dizzy format.

The game was the first to include the Yolkfolk; Daisy, Denzil, Dozy, Dylan and Grand Dizzy.

Also, the game was first to feature the gameplay mostly used in all subsequent versions: three lives, most graphical elements and physics, two alternative control layouts (on Spectrum - 6, 7, 9 and 0 in addition to previous Z, X, Space and Enter). Only health bar was yet to be introduced in the next sequel, Magicland Dizzy.

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Game reviewer and independent computer game designer Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, in his online video reviews for Zero Punctuation named the Commodore 64 version of Fantasy World Dizzy as the best game ever made. However, it is unclear whether or not this was intended in an ironic manner.[1]

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