The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy

62K plays 1993 #Action#Platform

Fantastic Dizzy (The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy on NES) is a 1991 video game developed by Codemasters. It is part of the Dizzy series. It was published on several platforms, including Mega Drive/Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, and MS-DOS.

The game was planned to be released in time for Christmas in 1990. However, because of a legal action between Codemasters and Nintendo over the Game Genie the title was released in April 1991; as a result, the game missed the Christmas rush it was originally slated for. It sold 125,000 units instead of the expected 500,000. The game was awarded the "NES Adventure Game of the Year 1991" by Game Players Magazine and given the Parents Choice Award. Almost all of puzzles are from the previous games. The game is one of the seven games released for the Aladdin Deck Enhancer.

From Wikipedia's article Fantastic Dizzy, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Keyboard controls

GenesisPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
AZN
BXM
CC,
XAY
YSU
ZDO
ModeShiftB
StartEnterSpace

Hotkeys

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

X, Y and Z are for six-button games such as Street Fighter II.

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

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Keyboard controls

GenesisPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
AZN
BXM
CC,
XAY
YSU
ZDO
ModeShiftB
StartEnterSpace

Hotkeys

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

X, Y and Z are for six-button games such as Street Fighter II.

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

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Pixel Verdict

The Fantastic Adventures of DizzyGenesis

3.5 Good job

Critics 76 · 16 reviews

What the reviews talk about

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What the critics said

  • Entertainment Weekly gave the game an A− and wrote: "Too-cute-for-words Dizzy (an anthropomorphized egg) needs your help to traverse his puzzle-filled kingdom. This game makes you expend IQ points, and the music is funky".

    — Entertainment Weekly, 1992

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

Scores

  • Amiga Computing 1994 80%
  • Amiga Force 86%
  • Amiga Format 1994 87% ; 80%
  • Amiga Power 1994 80%
  • Amiga User International 1994 69%
  • Computer and Video Games 1993 PC: 78% ; SMD: 80/100
  • Electronic Gaming Monthly 1990 NES: 20/40 ; SMD: 34/50
  • Joypad 1993 84%
  • Mega Fun 1994 SGG & SMS: 66% ; SMD: 67%
  • Mean Machines Sega 1993 59/100
  • PC Zone 1994 50/100
  • Video Games (DE) 1993 NES: 65% ; SMD & SMS: 69%
  • Entertainment Weekly 1992 NES: A− (other versions)
  • Mega 1993 80%
  • N-Force 1992 90% ; 92% (PAL)
  • The One 1994 84%
  • Sega Master Force 1993 SMS: 87/100 (other versions)
  • Sega Pro 1993 SGG & SMS: 92% ; SMD: 90%

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: 76/100 · 145 votes

Full reviews

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  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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