Dizzy : Amstrad Action Special

Copyright : Codemasters | Reviewed by : Patrick Furlong

When you want to promote a game, what is the best way to get coverage? TV advertising? Glowing reviews? No, write a special cut down version and get one of the computer magazines to put it on their covertape which is what Codemasters did with Dizzy. In this cut down Special Edition, you have to collect the ingredients to the potion which kill the Evil Wizard Zaks. Those thinking of getting the ingredients and making the potion in this demo then repeating everything they did on the full game (and cutting down on the amount of gameplay time) were in for a shock as most of the objects were in different places and some couldn?t be picked up at all, instead giving you adverts for Codemasters games and Amstrad Action magazine.

Graphics

Great MODE1 graphics like the complete game. The only difference between this version and the release version is that there is a line of text at the top of the screen announcing this as Amstrad Action?s Dizzy.

Sound

The Dizzy music is there intact. However, I didn?t like the music to Dizzy 1 much.

Gameplay

I didn?t like the first Dizzy game much, however, I kept coming back to this demo version for some reason.