Spellbound Dizzy

Description: Genre: Adventures & Role-playing / Developer: Optimus.

Newest Review: ... to keep the costs down by avoiding unnecessary detail. Although dated as a video game, Spellbound Dizzy is as playable and ... more

... enjoyable today as it was in 1990, although much harder to come by. It remains my favourite of all the Dizzy games for its different approach and distinctive look and feel, but essentially plays the same as the rest, even recycling one or two obstacle/solution ideas from its predecessors. It doesn’t look too impressive, and sounds tediously awful, but underneath the surface it’s a timeless game, and children will likely learn a thing or two from its imaginative and practical solutions to problems (examples include ...more

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Spellbound Dizzy: Dizzy's Egg-cellent Adv-egg-ture (1280 words)
by - written on 23/08/07 (Very useful, 123 readings)
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As the fifth game in the popular ‘Dizzy’ series, it could be expected that the repetitive format of the games would start to impede enjoyment, but the excellent ‘Spellbound Dizzy’ expands the scope of the platform adventure series and requires even more patience and ingenuity than its predecessors. The Dizzy games were originally designed by the Oliver Twins for the Commodore, Amiga, Spectrum and other home computer systems of the late 1980s, but by this point in the series their involvement was minimal. Far from causing a downturn in the quality of the games for moving away from their original style, the fresh ideas of the Codemasters team kept each Dizzy ... Read the complete review