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Treasure Island Dizzy
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Player's Review
Spectrum 128k (Dizzy II)
Dizzy was looking forward to the round- the- world cruise he had booked up for. When he told the other Yolk folk about the good deal he found, they wondered just what lay ahead of him...
Dizzy enjoyed the cruise at first although there were far too many pirates on the ship, the Grog was watered down, and he didn't even know what a mainbrace was, let alone how to splice it! The captain, Long John Silver, was a lovely old bloke with a kindly manner, good at insulting and degrading the fare paying punters.
He was well balanced - he had parrot on one shoulder and a chip on the other - and he had a wooden leg which he acquired when he fell out of his pram as a kid. Anyhow, their quaint little man o war found itself in still waters one sun-soaked afternoon, and Dizzy thought he would organize a game of cricket on the aft deck. In a fit of blinding stupidity he used LJ's spare leg collection as makeshift stumps, and when they were lost overboard he was made to walk the plank!
That was how he came to find himself gently poaching on the silent, sun-kissed beach of a seemingly deserted island ... He had to somehow find a way back to the Yolkfolk and lodge his compensation claim with the travel agent. . .
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With this game, the developers really wanted to step it up a notch...or ten! Now you get one life! and no energy bar. If that wasn't enough, as well as solving the games puzzles, you have to find Hidden collectables. It might be short when everything goes to plan, but the ole multiface (game genie / action replay for spectrum) certainly found a use here. Not so much for cheating, but for being able to snapshot when its going well.
But at least we got the added feature for being able to carry more objects right? Well that's also a bless and a curse. If you stire the objects in the wrong order you can land yourself in trouble. having the snorkel removed for instance when finding an object in the sea!
Also at the very end. The computer resets. yeah the game actually does that, rewarding you for actually making it through!
Dizzy was looking forward to the round- the- world cruise he had booked up for. When he told the other Yolk folk about the good deal he found, they wondered just what lay ahead of him...
Dizzy enjoyed the cruise at first although there were far too many pirates on the ship, the Grog was watered down, and he didn't even know what a mainbrace was, let alone how to splice it! The captain, Long John Silver, was a lovely old bloke with a kindly manner, good at insulting and degrading the fare paying punters.
He was well balanced - he had parrot on one shoulder and a chip on the other - and he had a wooden leg which he acquired when he fell out of his pram as a kid. Anyhow, their quaint little man o war found itself in still waters one sun-soaked afternoon, and Dizzy thought he would organize a game of cricket on the aft deck. In a fit of blinding stupidity he used LJ's spare leg collection as makeshift stumps, and when they were lost overboard he was made to walk the plank!
That was how he came to find himself gently poaching on the silent, sun-kissed beach of a seemingly deserted island ... He had to somehow find a way back to the Yolkfolk and lodge his compensation claim with the travel agent. . .
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With this game, the developers really wanted to step it up a notch...or ten! Now you get one life! and no energy bar. If that wasn't enough, as well as solving the games puzzles, you have to find Hidden collectables. It might be short when everything goes to plan, but the ole multiface (game genie / action replay for spectrum) certainly found a use here. Not so much for cheating, but for being able to snapshot when its going well.
But at least we got the added feature for being able to carry more objects right? Well that's also a bless and a curse. If you stire the objects in the wrong order you can land yourself in trouble. having the snorkel removed for instance when finding an object in the sea!
Also at the very end. The computer resets. yeah the game actually does that, rewarding you for actually making it through!
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