Dizzy: The Complete History - SGR

I wish more people knew about Dizzy. Its sad that their kickstarter failed.

Was an honour and a pleasure working with you on this Slopes, and I thankyou again for reaching out to me, and even have me write some of script! This is the kind of video which is what retro gaming history is all about. The Oliver's are icons of the British gaming lore, and this is such a homage to them. To see such positive feedback for it in heartwarming, and it really is on the finest projects you have done. A long wait, but so so worth it. Kudos my friend. Dizzy Forever.

Sent this video too my dad and hes gonna watch it later. Me and him used to play dizzy for hours when I was a kid

HIGH-FIVE! You convinced this American who never gave a hoot about Dizzy to watch a 75-minute documentary on the entire series. Fantastic work!

Wow the Oliver twins are absolutely amazing grafters, we’ve got a lot to thank them for. The Oliver’s are to gaming what black sabbath is to heavy metal. Creators, forefathers of gaming. Geniuses.

Dan, I was ready to call you out on your facts, but the research for this episode went above and beyond perfection and into the realms of immortality. Quick story. I bought Dizzy 3 and was struggling so I rang the help line. But the tape was on a loop, so I had to wait for it to loop all the way back, and to the point where I was stuck. Later I got stuck again, and this time I played the whole tape, thinking I could memorise the whole thing. I didnt. I went back and played the whole tape again. This time I wrote everything down. Long story short, the phone bill cost me £70; which I paid back over the next 10 years. Thats the most expensive budget game I ever bought. £73.99 in total.

🙌 I'd seen Dizzy on the 4 in one NES collection carts, but I never knew his detailed history. Well done!

As a past and current retro gamer from the U.S., i didnt know much about dizzy. but what a treat to dive into these old uk gems. Thank you slope for showing me dizzy so i could experience these games.

Wow. I just listened to the interview with you on The Retro Hour, this morning. I had not heard of your channel before, but I liked the sound of well researched videos about games, so I decided to look you up. Looks like I did so at the perfect time! Dizzy is one of my favourite franchises, and The Oliver Twins are fantastic people. :)

wow, that was quite an accomplishment buddy! well done.

The music in Fantastic Dizzy for the mega drive is possibly the best music in ANY game ever made. Every time I hear it I'm instantly transported to xmas '93 when i 1st played it. LOVE that game.

Thanks for this video! So many childhood memories playing Dizzy in the 80's and early 90's on my Commodore 64 and Amiga. I spent many hours with Fast Food Dizzy and jumping on that shark fin in Magicland Dizzy gave me nightmares as a kid! Probably my favourite complete history though I enjoy most of the videos. Great work!!!

Huge Dizzy fan from the US here since I was a little kid and first played Treasure Island Dizzy on Quattro Adventure on a rental. A few years later I found the Dizzy standalone game (I can't remember the name now) at a local swap meet and had the only other gold cartridge in my collection outside of the Zelda games. Was cool to later find out how many Dizzy games there actually were with emulation.

Thanks for putting this video together, Slopes! I’m 33 and from the US. Fantastic Dizzy is a game that my mom used to play with me and my sister when we were kids. This game/franchise is so important to me and my childhood. My mom died of cancer when I was still a kid and playing this game with her created a core memory that gets me through tough times. I was very interested in this video and appreciate all the hard work it took to put this awesome video together. Thank you! 🥚

Seems like you have a lot of respect for the franchise. I am one of those rare Americans who knows about the character. I actually owned Fantastic Dizzy on the genesis and loved it though I never could get past a certain part. Seemed like nobody ever knew what game I Iwas talking about. Edit : Dizzy for Smash.

Drop Dead Fred was on TV in the US a lot back in the early 90s and introduced me to Rik Mayall. So when Comedy Central started airing a show that he was in, I watched it. And that's how a yank learned what The Young Ones was. Plus they had an episode where Motorhead played Ace of Spades. I couldn't pass that up.

Dizzy was very much my first experience of a mascot game before Sonic, only ever completed one Dizzy game - Magicland Dizzy - but kept trying on each game I played to try and improve. It's sad to hear how badly the twins were treated by greedy publishers who only cared about making a profit instead of supporting quality games and a pair of clearly very talented developers. Dizzy is very much one of the pinnacles of British gaming to this day.

Dizzy, the acid trip of a Sega Genesis rental that I had to convince myself actually happened. Although I only had the game for a weekend, this Codemasters classic stuck with me for life. None of my friends have ever mentioned the game so I'm probably one of the few American fans.

Fantasy World Dizzy on the ZX Spectrum was the first video game I encountered as a young child that opened my mind showing me that games can be something more than fast-twitch simple action games like Galaga. I was entranced by it. After that I played Magicland Dizzy and I loved it even more.

Absolutely wonderful video. Huge fan of the Dizzy series and was a lovely retrospective. Magicland was my first and the music is still in my head.