Trivia / Dizzy

• Ascended Fanon: The Oliver Twins said Dizzy was never supposed to be an egg, just a face with hands and feet. But after the first game was released and everyone thought he was an egg, they decided to go with that, and created the rest of the Yolkfolk.
• Colbert Bump: Practically anyone learning about the series in the 21st century did so because they heard about it on Zero Punctuation.
• Creative Differences: One of the main reasons for the death of the Dizzy series is because the Oliver Twins and Codemasters had a falling out over how to handle the IP. Nothing could be done after the Oliver Twins broke away from Codemasters since the rights were split between the two parties.
• Follow the Leader: Dizzy's success led to many similar arcade adventure games, a lot of them also published by Codemasters. Examples include Murray Mouse: Supercop, Spike in Transilvania (sic) and the Seymour series.
• The Merch: At the peak of Dizzy's popularity, the game inlays offered Dizzy merchandise including t-shirts, baseball caps and clocks for sale by mail order.
• The Shelf of Movie Languishment: An NES remake for Magicland Dizzy, called Wonderland Dizzy, was made but ended up being lost for over two decades. The Oliver Twins eventually found the source code and released it to the public in 2015.
• Sleeper Hit: The first game initially didn't do that well in sales, but as months went by they steadily grew and grew thanks to word of mouth, convincing Codemasters to request a sequel from the Oliver Twins.
• Throw It In!: Dizzy's trademark somersaulting jump action was just the result of the Oliver Twins faffing around with the rotate function in their paint program.
• What Could Have Been:
  • At the peak of the series' popularity, Codemasters was in talks with Hanna-Barbera over a possible animated adaptation, however the legal fallouts involving the NES ports put an end to these discussions.
  • In the mid 00's, Blitz Games tried to pitch a 3D reboot of the Dizzy games to Codemasters but aside from this pitch video, it never amounted to much more until the actual reboot in 2011 for mobile devices.
  • In 2012, Blitz Games set up a Kickstarter to help fund a new game in the series called Dizzy Returns, which would have the same gameplay of the original games but with 3D graphics. The Kickstarter failed to meet its goal however and then Blitz got shut down shortly after.

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