Spindizzy Worlds

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14K plays 1990 #Action#Puzzle

Spindizzy Worlds is a puzzle video game published by Activision, released on the Amiga and Atari ST in 1990. It was later released on the Super Famicom in 1992 and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993 by Ascii Entertainment and on the X68000 and the NEC PC-9801 in 1992 by Arsys Software as Spindizzy II. The game is a sequel to the 1986 video game Spindizzy. Like its predecessor it uses an isometric view, and the player controls a spinning top-like robotic device named GERALD, a Geographical Environmental Reconnaissance And LandMapping Device, that is tasked with exploring and mapping a star system before it is destroyed.

From Wikipedia's article Spindizzy Worlds, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Keyboard controls

SNESPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
AZM
BXN
XAU
YSH
LQY
REO
SelectShiftB
StartEnterSpace

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

Online, both players use the Player 1 keys (or a gamepad) on their own computer. Saving, loading and pausing are off while you play online.

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Keyboard controls

SNESPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
AZM
BXN
XAU
YSH
LQY
REO
SelectShiftB
StartEnterSpace

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

Online, both players use the Player 1 keys (or a gamepad) on their own computer. Saving, loading and pausing are off while you play online.

Emulator help & troubleshooting

Play online

Play with a friend on another computer. Host a room and send them the link; they join as Player 2 and you both see the same game.

Press Start Game first.

Go live

Let anyone watch you play, live in their browser. They see your game as you play it, and your online game when you host a room.

Press Start Game first.

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Pixel Verdict

Spindizzy WorldsSNES

3.5 Good job

GameRankings 75% (archived)

What the reviews talk about

Key wordstoughexcellent

What the critics said

  • Nintendo Magazine System gave the game an overall score of 90/100 stating “An excellent update of a genuine classic, and a long-lasting game that stands head and shoulders above any other SNES puzzlers.”

    — Nintendo Magazine System, 1993

  • Super Gamer reviewed the SNES version and gave an overall score of 89% stating: "A massive and very tough test of joypad reactions and brains which you'll love or hate."

    — Super Gamer, 1994

From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Spindizzy Worlds article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.

Scores

  • GameRankings 75% · archived average
  • ACE 1990 AMI: 890/1000 ; AST: 880/1000 (other versions)
  • Aktueller Software Markt 1991 8/12
  • Amiga Format 1991 94%
  • Amiga Power 5/5
  • Computer and Video Games 90/100
  • Electronic Gaming Monthly 1992 30/40
  • Game Players 1993 8/10
  • GamePro 1992 18/20
  • GameZone 4/5
  • Nintendo Power 1993 12.6/20
  • Raze 70%
  • ST Format 1990 91%
  • Total! 1993 91%
  • Video Games (DE) 75%
  • CU Amiga 1991 81%
  • The One 1990 88%
  • Power Play 1991 86%

From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' archived average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.

Players' rating: 53/100 · 23 votes

Full reviews

Face key

  1. 1.00+
  2. 1.540+
  3. 2.050+
  4. 2.560+
  5. 3.068+
  6. 3.575+
  7. 4.080+
  8. 4.585+
  9. 5.090+

5.0 Outstanding! · 4.0 Great job! · 3.0 Good job · 2.0 Could be better · 1.0 Wake me up when it's over · A thumbs-up adds half a point. Our own drawings, in the spirit of the faces GamePro magazine used in the '90s.

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