Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk
Dizzy must escape captivity and wake Daisy in a compact adventure developed by Big Red Software with the Twins' involvement.
Image credits and source
Original cover / promotional artwork
Credit: Codemasters — artwork belongs to its respective rights holders
Game at a glance
- Status
- Classic
- Released
- 1991
- Platforms
- Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Atari ST, Amiga, DOS
- Genres
- Adventure, Platform
- Developer
- Big Red Software; The Oliver Twins (series/design involvement)
- Publisher
- Codemasters
Development and publication
Development: Big Red Software; The Oliver Twins (series/design involvement). Publication: Codemasters.
The Oliver Twins created Dizzy and contributed the concept, design or oversight identified above. Programming and conversions are credited separately.
Making the game
Having done a great job of Magicland Dizzy and Spellbound Dizzy and with deep in developing NES games, Big Red were keen to produce another Dizzy game.
We’d like to take credit for this, but really, they pitched a great concept and with the awesome job they’d done on Magicland and Spellbound we gave them our full approval. The idea of using the tale of the lion with a thorn in his foot was wonderful. We wish we’d thought of that! There were also other lovely story arcs and characters that were a delight. The team nailed the essence of Dizzy and we were very pleased with the result.
We were so pleased with the design that we took the over design and rewrote this for the NES calling it Dizzy The Adventurer.
Original documents
Archived Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk document (PDF)
Archived Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk article (PDF)