Dimrill wrote:
I think Fantasy World Dizzy is the only one I came close to finishing. Does/did Yolkfolk have you with just one life? I can't imagine that being popular now.
Fantasy World Dizzy on the Spectrum was the nearest I came to completing too. Missed out on the coins along the way, required to get the ending, could never be bothered to play again after that. Enjoyed it while it lasted lot more than the previous two Dizzies though, which were played a few times before being relegated to the cassette storage case.
Later, when my family got an Amiga 500, I got pretty far on the Amiga conversion of Treasure Island Dizzy using the (self explanatory) icanfly cheat code. Again, stumped by the coin-collecting. I remember being very impressed by the colourful graphics at the time, but nowadays as a non-child I realise how gaudy and amateurish it looks. (It's also a straight Atari ST port, judging from YouTube. Bleaugh.)
Fantasy World Dizzy was quite nice on the Amiga. Far better than Treasure Island Dizzy, as a game and a Speccy remake. Oddly, it was left off the CD32 Dizzy compilation that I bought years later. Odd, that.
My brother completed Prince of the Yolkfolk, but then it was, to be fair, a better game design than previous Dizzies, more 'fairer' despite still being annoying as games go.
Only other Dizzy I enjoyed was Fantastic Dizzy on the Amiga, which I played on the CD32. Dizzy, but with influences of those so-called "console games" that were available on "games console" of Japanese manufacture. No save game facility pretty much made it not worth the bother for me, unfortunately.