Dizzy is one of my favourite video game characters of all time. I loved his adventure games on the old home computers back during the eighties/early nineties. His games combined platforming with exploration of hidden objects and puzzle solving which required the use of items and talking to characters. Aside from the classic adventure games Dizzy also featured in some spin off action like games. Unfortunately for us players most of the spin off games featuring Dizzy were pretty awful. I suspect Codemasters were just capitalising on the character's popularity by plonking him in games that wouldn't have sold otherwise. Fast Food was the first spin off Dizzy game ...  Read the complete review

The first hints of the successful licensed franchise that the Oliver Twins’ anthropomorphic egg Dizzy would never become came with ‘Fast Food,’ released at the end of 1987. Essentially a quick, cheap and fairly unimpressive PacMan clone designed for a budget sale, the game was completely redesigned several years later to take advantage of the Amiga and Spectrum’s superior abilities, for inclusion on the ‘Dizzy Collection’ compilation of all the early Dizzy games. Despite the revised moniker (in the style of ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’), this game is completely unrelated to Codemasters’ primary series of Dizzy games, which were excellent and thoughtfully crafted ...  Read the complete review