Of all the great Spectrum titles, the Dizzy series holds the warmest place in my heart, and this one's my favourite. I guess that makes this is my favourite Spectrum game ever. Magicland was the middle of the 7 Dizzy titles, and I regard it as as the 'peak' of the Dizzy mountain - the most perfect title, with a fully-formed inventory system (unlike earlier titles) and a good size game map (unlike later titles, which suffered from being too big or too small). It has all the classic Dizzy elements - castles, treehouses, fairy tale and fantasy, and of course a perfect soundtrack from the legendary David Whittaker. I also think the game is the most fun and cheerful of all the Dizzy title, and the least 'lonely' - with loads of people dotted around the map, including the Yolk Folk, Zaks, and a host of additional fantasy characters. If you want to see a definitive Dizzy game - look no further than this. Or, if you want to see a video that defines my childhood - here it is! :-)

I've waited like 30 years to see this damn game's end :/

I died so many times on that bit with the shark crossing the moat! Weird how the theme tune comes back to you 30+ years later!

Games were so much harder back then.... one false move and it was death, then back to the beginning of the game.

The patience I had as a kid to get through these Dizzy games just seems alien to me now.

Blast from the past god, glad I lived through these days

Fuck! I LOVED these Dizzy games when I was around 8 and through to 11 years old. God the music is really good for a Spectrum! Very catchy! 😊 I still have my Spectrum Dizzy games, Dizzy, Treasure Island Dizzy, Fantasy Land Dizzy, Spellbound Dizzy, Magic Land Dizzy... There's a few more that I'm forgetting right now as well! 😊 Man, I REALLY LOVED the adventure style of these games. Definitely set me up for the Amiga games like Monkey Island! 😊 ✌🏼😉👍🏼 *Sigh!*

@nickthelick

2 жыл бұрын

Also, this Dizzy looks quite hard actually!

One of my favourite games of all tine. So many memories :)

@flatlandrory

3 жыл бұрын

Me too.

Absolutely loved this game as a kid. Couldnt get anywhere near completing it

@dukes8359

6 жыл бұрын

ScouseMouse same with all the dizzys still tried for hours and hours :)

ДИЗИ самая лучшая игра была на Zx спектрум,у меня целая касета дыла дизи)

This one had the best music of all

Wonderful game. Thanks for the walk through, I was well and truly stuck on the goat :)

This was my favourite of the Dizzy games. And the only one I completed! In the other games I could never find all of the coins/cherry's etc.

@Scripture-Man

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, my favourite too. I'd put them in this order: 1. Magicland Dizzy 2. Fantasy World Dizzy 3. Dizzy Prince of the Yolk Folk 4. Treasure Island Dizzy 5. Spellbound Dizzy 6. Dizzy: The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure 7. Crystal Kingdom Dizzy (last because I couldn't get hold of it back in the day, so have no 'memories' of it)

This music is light years ahead of the other games. So many different melody themes, motifs and tricks.

@eyeshandy

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely

Best Dizzy game hands down!

this ines my favorite and 39 years on the music still is in my head. i find myself humming it. i never could ever get on the shark, i never completed it.

I enjoyed watching that, I'm off back to bed now.

Wonderful game, wonderful music. Thanks for the video, I use it as a soundtrack :-)

what a game! I completed this when I was about 7 and now I'm 31 and after watching this walk though I'm wondering how the hell I did it

@russellspicer3411

8 жыл бұрын

Yes

@deldia

8 жыл бұрын

The magazine's used to produce complete solutions and everyone used to speak about them. I only ever managed Fantasy World Dizzy though.

@Heyoka86

7 жыл бұрын

I finished it when I was around 9, and now I'm 30. The Dizzy games stimulated my imagination a whole lot when I was a kid and I am thankful for it. Then came Monkey Island and Little Big Adventure. Great times.

@johnnymcauley6216

5 жыл бұрын

Loved this game

Designer of the game here (sorry). Here's a thing... People noticed that this game was full of references to various fantasy stories (Lord of the Rings, Wizard of Oz, Billy Goats Gruff, Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass, etc) and even a few videogames (Pac-Man, for one). But as far as I know no-one ever spotted the homage to my favourite Spectrum game on the first screen. They messed it up on the Amiga version by adding a space in the middle of the name (it's supposed to be one word) but the original Speccy version is correct. Kudos to anyone who recognises which classic Spectrum game the first screen was referencing :)

@rzxarchive

7 жыл бұрын

Hi, good to hear from you! Is the game the first screen is referencing The Lords of Midnight?

@blatherskite3009

7 жыл бұрын

Not too far off! It was Dragontorc by Steve Turner. On the map that was included with that game, "Wierdhenge" is located pretty much exactly where Codemasters were (and still are) in the Midlands :)

@rzxarchive

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info! Yep, classic a classic game from Hewson, as was Avalon. Interestingly enough, there is a "Weird Henge" in The Lords of Midnight, according to www.icemark.com/tower/IceCrown.htm

@blatherskite3009

7 жыл бұрын

Interesting! I didn't know there was also a "Weird Henge" in Lords of Midnight! Now I'm wondering whether the "Weirdhenge" in Steve Turner's game was itself a nod to Mike Singleton, as Dragontorc was released just one year after Lords of Midnight? It's an unwitting double-reference in Dizzy 4, if so! :)

@rzxarchive

7 жыл бұрын

I asked Hewson about this on Twitter and got a reply from Steve Turner! twitter.com/rzxarchive/status/833941471359234048 "Not deliberately but maybe I had seen it in Lords Of Midnight. I used to make names up from two halves."

Me and my sister tried to clock this game for hours at a time....well that was easy. Jesus the amount of times i used to end up upside down in the water because i'd committed suicide out of frustration :)

Poor old Danny doesn't get a look-in on the win screen. Probably hovering just above the frame.

@makkapacca

7 жыл бұрын

+1

Sinister is how the game ends... to unleash Satan on his own fire... 🤭😂

finished this with infinite lives poke - classic classic classic

Wow, how the heck did I never manage to complete this?!

23:54......always wondered what the hell this screen was all about and how to get to that guy in the clouds. I assumed it was some hidden level because I completed the game without needing to but somehow always dreamed of what was up there :)

@rhynouk1

4 жыл бұрын

Myself and a friend had many tries at seeing what it was. Disscussions in the school playground about it too. Good times.

@andrewrichardson6981

3 жыл бұрын

@@rhynouk1 it's a harpy. If you get too near to it it flies over and kills you

@rhynouk1

3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewrichardson6981 Wow really? I tried to get close but could find the right clouds to stand on. I might try again later.

@trailersic

3 жыл бұрын

Wonder what the Americans would have a made a game where at the end there is a topless harpy and you make a deal with Satan

@adcashmo

3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewrichardson6981 now I finally get it. It always appeared too fast to read and in any case I certainly wouldn't have known what it meant back then :D "The Harpy's Eyrie" = the Harpy's nest! Of course!!

what about the other items that weren't used? i.e. the lightening? the eatme cake etc? were they meant for something? or just a red herring?

@rhynouk1

4 жыл бұрын

Red herrings. The Dizzy games had loads of them.

@DragonRaiderX9

2 жыл бұрын

If you give the Eatme Cake to Daisy, instead of the Drinkme item, then she'll grow larger instead of shrinking, crushing Dizzy. Otherwise, the Dizzy games tend to have a few dud items thrown in as red herrings, yes.

@MikeRosoftJH

21 күн бұрын

Lightning rod is needed. You place it next to sleeping Dozy, and then when you use the magic lamp, the genie's lightnings strike the rod and wake him up.

Damn! i missed 1 crystal :-( I really hate twins for this stupid coins/crystals collection challenge...

so, satan saves the day. As usual

@MikeRosoftJH

21 күн бұрын

Go figure. Zaks could have known better: you make a deal with the devil, and then you get the clever idea of betraying him. What could possibly go wrong?

How catchy is that music?

@minduton

7 жыл бұрын

It is AY music. Only 128k version.

@andyukmonkey

7 жыл бұрын

minduton Thanks for the reply but it's not really related to my comment.

@Scripture-Man

4 жыл бұрын

The answer to your question is: _very!_

Dizzikins :-D

I don't remember music during gameplay...

@andrewrichardson6981

2 жыл бұрын

The 48k version didn't have it, only the sound effects through the beeper

this is an emulation, the music sounded better on a real speccy

@andrewrichardson6981

3 жыл бұрын

no, this is exactly how it sounds. I have it on a real +3.

жаль что всё на английском(((

@spartan.falbion2761

2 жыл бұрын

The speccy version has a rustic beauty.