Please help a girl out!

[BoneSnapDeez]

Fantastic Dizzy was a Together Retro title here a while back... did nobody play it?

Not even the Europeans played it?

[Hobie-wan]

So none of us is Yahtzee then. Fair enough.

[flojocabron]

I was not aware of the Dizzy Character being in a genesis game!

I knew he was on an nes game

4 Quattro adventure. I've owned my copy for years now.



Its a funny, different looking gold cartrige. It even has a special switch in the back. My guess is that switch can be changed for when playing in PAL countries?

Now that I know the name of the genesis game and I image searched it. It brings this up:



I have never seen any genesis cart look like this!

I have "THE EARTH DEFEND" And that one is a strange cart too. But this Dizzy cart looks cool too.

What hast thou wrought GIRLNEEDSHELP?

[AppleQueso]

actually taht switch is part of their weird lockout chip workaround mechanism

[dsheinem]

Fantastic Dizzy was a Together Retro title here a while back... did nobody play it?

Not even the Europeans played it?

I played it and have tried to block it from my memory.

[Erik_Twice]

Oh dear, you have opened a Pandora box. Do yourself a favour, don't play Dizzy

I've never heard of a Euro platformer. I'm familiar with the Euro shmup; what differentiates a Euro platformer from Mario/Mega Man/Sonic/Duke Nukem/Commander Keen?

It's just like shmups: Floaty controls, no level design, you know the drill

[KalessinDB]

Dizzy's got a couple unlicensed Camerica titles on the NES too. Both regular Camerica carts and the Aladdin Deck Enhancer (still bitter about losing mine in a move a couple years back...)

[alienjesus]

Fantastic Dizzy was a Together Retro title here a while back... did nobody play it?

Not even the Europeans played it?

I played it, and I finished it.

I still didn't think of it from the description. Whoops!

[Ivo]

I also played and finished it (and liked it) and I played other Dizzy games before it, but the title of the thread was so vague I only came in to see what was going on when it got to the third page. I might have guessed it with that description, but with the memory being from a console I might not think of Dizzy anyway as I associate the series more to the Amiga.

I think some of you guys are being unduly harsh with Euro platformers in general (and Dizzy in particular).

An example of a very good Euro platformer that came out on consoles and probably had a comparable development budget to Japan-made games of the time is James Pond 2: Robocod.

I think in general if you compare Euro games (platformers or shmups or whatever) from the 80s and early 90s on home computers with what was coming out from the same period in Japan either for the arcades or for consoles (and selling at higher prices), you will get a somewhat "Indie" feel, most likely because of the size and philosophy of the respective development teams.

There are still very good games in the mix even if we stick to platformers, Turrican was already mentioned, and Another World is arguably a timeless classic (and if you don't stick to platformers, there are many more Euro developed games from the same period).

[Gooseberrysoda]

I think the first star of Mr. Nutz is in the woods?