Dizzy - Magicland

[Tom Henrik]

Feel free to comment and discuss this game here. Also, if you have any useful tips or tricks don't hesitate to share them with the others! Thanks!

Review and Download (if available) (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/213)

[Durak]

Oi! Hopefully this one doesn't have the annoying water in the middle like the other one. Now that this one's here I have to play it as if it's a challenge =).

[aaberg]

Ohh no, I hate Dizzy! :yawn:

[Durak]

Heh, why? Is it beacause it can be so frustrating?

[Wilo]

AUGH DIZZY!!!! UNHOLY SON OF A (insert whatever you want here - SATAN)!!!!!! God I hated these games. bloody peices of crap. Farthest i ever got was cut short since some jackass said he wanted goldcoins and then shoved me into the water killing me for my last life. stupid stupid stupid! unholy games i swaer to god the pure purpose is to eat up more time then EQ does and just drive you nuts!!! Heard things about one guy that actually drew a face onto an egg and called him Dizzy. then threw it onto his neighbors roof and went "Oh ****" and ran back inside when he realized what he done......stupid stupid stupid egg freak! worse then a round of survior:The game (the most craptastic game in existance mind you)

[Kosta]

LMAO! :D

Thanks for the detailed insight and that little anecdote! ;)

[Durak]

Well! Atleast I wasn't the only one frustrated by Dizzy in my youth. Atleast I beat a few of them. B)

[Matt]

Just a bit of info about the order the games were released.

Dizzy was originally an 8-bit game (for computers like the spectrum or commodore c64) and Magicland was fourth in the series of games, while Prince of the Yolkfolk was 6th.

I'm not sure about the order they were converted to the PC, but in terms of original releases, Prince of the Yolkfolk is actually a sequel to Magicland, not the other way around.

[hanging]

correct..

I think magic land was the first one converted.. Fantasy world was the first one converted to Atari and amiga.. but I dont think it got any further..

[marko river]

Dizzy - Magicland was second one converted to PC.

Matt is right, magicland is 4th in series. After first Dizzy, there was Treasure Island Dizzy, then Fantasy world Dizzy (first one I played and to me best one, since everything is cool with items, inventory and stuff) and Magicland.

Dizzy was originaly made for Spectrum and converted to C64 right away. Well, they are fun little logic-platforms. I see there are some really anoyed players. Well, I guess I'll be anoyed too, but on C64 you always could find cracked versions with unlimited lives, so you can focus on adventure part of game. I have Fantasy world and it's great, but you only have 3 lives. On C64 I played this one millions of times and I always lose like 10 to 15 lives. So, I guess PC gamers will never like Dizzy.

[Roudh]

Does anyone know about any walkthroughs for Dizzy... I'm stuck! I don't know what to do at all apart from pick up diamonds. How do you wake the sleeping guy and free the planted one? How do you get 30 diamonds for that troll? how do you rescue Dora? I am so confused with this game.

I never liked it as a kid and still don't now LOL!!!

Help?

[Skillster]

Hello I can't get this to work under dosbox, in winxp
has anyone ever got this to work?

[TheSmyth]

:hairpull: Treasure Island Dizzy was the best, not sure if it was ever released for the PC though, i has the Atari ST version.

[NoMaD SouL]

I have em all pc version call me anyone if you want em :whistle:

[DCLeadboot]

Does anybody know any secret codes for giving Dizzy infinite lives and/or health?
I just can't get anywhere 'cos he dies too easily! :blink:

[Little Fella]

If you want to play Dizzy the way it was meant to be played, download an easy to use Spectrum Emulator and get all the Dizzy TAP files.

It wasn't that hard to stay alive if your Z and X keys were mapped properly and both worked.

Dizzy 1 was the hardest without a doubt. You could only carry one item at a time which meant you were constantly having to run from one end of the map to the other avoiding the falling raindrops and spiders on webs and fires and bats and all kinds of other things.

Treasure Island Dizzy (the 2nd one) was the only one I couldn't complete. I could never find the 30th gold coin so in the end, after playing all the remaining games (Fanstasy World Dizzy, Magicland Dizzy, Dizzy, Prince of the Yolkfolk and that one I can never remember the name of) I found a cheat that could give you a gold coin every time you press a certain button.

I even played Dizzy 3.5 which came on a tape on the front of a Spectrum magazine. In Dizzy 3.5 you find a strange device in the woods where Dizzy and his friends spend a lot of their time. Dizzy being Dizzy, starts up the machine, and it transports him to Magicland.

Once they changed the format....that's when it got hard. You had Fast Food and then Kwik Snax, Bubble Dizzy, and Dizzy Down The Rapids. All of which starred that little egg that so many kids had grown to love, but that's where the similarity ended and Codemaster's massive sell-out revolution began. I say sell out, but that's just because I didn't like the above mentioned games at all, with the exception of Kwik Snax which I thought was ok.

It's nice to see Codemasters are still going though, after all the endless hours me and my friends must have put into playing their games when we were younger.

Now the games are all about how many Germans or Arabs we can kill.


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[Shellback82]

FYI all you Dizzy lovers:

The first Dizzy was never released for the PC. Treasure Island was the first one released for the PC way back in 1987. The second was Fast Food, also in 1987. THEN came Fantasy World in 1988. Kwik Snax came in 1989 and Magicland came in 1990. The next one was not released for the PC and was called Panic!, which came out in 1990. Prince of the Yolk Folk was also released in 1990 as well as Bubble and Spellbound. Down the Rapids was not released for PC and came out in 1991. Two other titles released in 1991 that were released for PC are Fantastic Adventures and Crystal Kingdom. The last two releases were not ported to PC. They were Adventurer in 1992 and Go! Dizzy Go! in 1993.

Hope this helps all of you.

[Guest_Mentor]

It might help to remind you that Dizzy's girlfriend is actually Daisy. Dora is his sister, I believe.

[your all noobs]

listen ime 21 and i finished most of the dizzy games and the first pc import i believe was treasure island dizzy i am currently making a tribute to this game and believe it to be one of the best games ever made i was actually quite shocked that u dont like this game considdering the first were made on 8 bit machines the coders must have been complete geniuss ime using state of the art proggramming languages and i still run into problems .dizzy is a work of complete geniuss as much today as in the 80s

if your at all interested in my game and the progress ime making feel free to email me at ste44@blueyonder.co.uk

[Portnawak]

Personally I think that TI Dizzy was the best of the lot, does anyone know why it isn't available in a decent format (never been a fan of C64s). I too never found the 30th gold coin, even though I cheated like hell with ICANFLY (if I remember correctly).
TI Dizzy and TSOMI are the two games I remember the most from way back when...
Incidentally, did anyone out there ever actually finish TSOMI without cheating?

[punkassbitch]

I don't give a shit. Dizzy Rules!XD