Wizkid

My God, what a crazy game this was. How I wish I could be playing it again. Wizkid, the b*stard son of Wizball ( a game I unfortunately have never played) was one of the most playable and original games of its day. As soon as the game loaded up you knew it was going to be fun (and different) with the 1812 overture being played triumphantly, canons and all. The game comes as close as the UK could ever get the quirky, crazy and cutesy games that fly out of Japan. However, it is filled with little British trites, gags and humour differentiating it away from anything as banal as a Pokeman monster or a plumber riding a dinosaur. There were two stages in ...  Read the complete review

A spin off of the old Wizball game but in a much better format. The idea of the game was to kill baddies with bricks. In turn they would give off bubble that would contain either coloured liquid, a clown's nose or false teeth! The liquid would turn into notes when burst which would help make up the tune at the top of the screen. When you had a whole tune, it would tunr into money that you had to catch. The shop screen then came up when yu could buy various thing and chose to either go back to the head mode or body mode. The body mode meant you could explore hidden parts of the level. Every level had its own crossword that MUST be completed in order ...  Read the complete review