Mission Accomplished!
*sniff* I still occasionally glance at my stack of Amstrad tapes in their boxes and wonder why it doesn't look right anymore. And the reason is something is missing and that something is bottom right of your photo there. Ah well, at least he looks happy there with his new family of other Dizzy games. I stil have a few Dizzy games in the tape case drawers.
Quote from: Carnivac on 14:47, 05 July 14
*sniff* I still occasionally glance at my stack of Amstrad tapes in their boxes and wonder why it doesn't look right anymore. And the reason is something is missing and that something is bottom right of your photo there. Ah well, at least he looks happy there with his new family of other Dizzy games. I stil have a few Dizzy games in the tape case drawers.
Aww sorry man :(
But as you can see I'm looking after it and he has lots of friends too :laugh:
They are in the wrong order. Can you put them in chronological order and re-take the photo please?
Have you managed to collect all the Dizzy character cards yet too?
V nice collection btw
Quote from: BluesBrothers on 00:26, 13 July 14
Have you managed to collect all the Dizzy character cards yet too?
V nice collection btw
I'm trying to but haven't managed the complete set yet. This is my collection:
(http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/p591/egochip/dizzycards-small_zps26cf62f3.jpg) (http://s1157.photobucket.com/user/egochip/media/dizzycards-small_zps26cf62f3.jpg.html)
I'm missing Daisy and Dylan.
Quote from: EgoTrip on 12:07, 13 July 14
I'm trying to but haven't managed the complete set yet. This is my collection:
(http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/p591/egochip/dizzycards-small_zps26cf62f3.jpg) (http://s1157.photobucket.com/user/egochip/media/dizzycards-small_zps26cf62f3.jpg.html)
I'm missing Daisy and Dylan.
WOW I never knew about these Dizzy Collector cards. However I was never really bowled over by the eggy-ones adventures on the CPC (or Any other format for that matter) they just were not my cup of egg-nog.
Craig
Look what I just won ;D
(http://s27.postimg.org/9r7g2g90j/Clipboard01.jpg)
Where did you get that? In a booby trapped cave in a remote jungle, Indiana Jones style? Or the boring way?
Quote from: Carnivac on 20:43, 20 July 14
Where did you get that? In a booby trapped cave in a remote jungle, Indiana Jones style? Or the boring way?
Nich gave me the heads up, I would never have seen it as it had such a strange Ebay title :laugh:
That means the tape I've got isn't the Dizzy one, cos whats left of the label is red not blue. I thought it was, but I've got no way to test it.
I suspect its the Total Eclipse demo.
Quote from: Neil79 on 17:59, 20 July 14
Look what I just won ;D
(http://s27.postimg.org/9r7g2g90j/Clipboard01.jpg)
What is different about the Amstrad Action Special Edition? Other than the fact that it was free obviously?
Smaller map, different puzzles (you just have to get the potion ingredients) and loads of in-game ads
Essential for Dizzy completists though as Neil seems to be. :)
Quote from: Carnivac on 22:18, 20 July 14
Essential for Dizzy completists though as Neil seems to be. :)
Damn right!
Oh and
What happens when you have everything?
Are you gonna include Seymour games in this too since his series was originally gonna be Dizzy games but they didn't want Dizzy to be in 'real world' types of environments?
Oh that was the reason was it . Always wondered what the point of that character?Man the sleepless nights I had. ;D
Quote from: Carnivac on 22:38, 20 July 14
What happens when you have everything?
Are you gonna include Seymour games in this too since his series was originally gonna be Dizzy games but they didn't want Dizzy to be in 'real world' types of environments?
I'm moving onto Amiga next :p
Quote from: Neil79 on 23:01, 20 July 14
I'm moving onto Amiga next :p
before or after Seymour?
Depends if I see a good copy of Seymour, never played it personally
Lol, it's dizzy with shoulders!
Shoulders?
Anyways I always liked the Seymour sprite. Very nicely animated (I used to pixel it out of Amstrad Action articles for practice) and I liked the cowboy hat version in Wild West Seymour. Nice skeletal death sequence too. And he doesn't roll off things when he's jumping. Definitely worth a go if into Dizzy type games.
Quote from: Neil79 on 23:04, 20 July 14
Depends if I see a good copy of Seymour, never played it personally
Start with the minigame on one of the AA covertapes, Seymour Take One http://cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=1092 (http://cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=1092)
Its good but I think the real world setting takes the edge off it that the Dizzy games had. Also the sprite kind of freaks me out especially the death.
Quote from: EgoTrip on 23:35, 20 July 14
Start with the minigame on one of the AA covertapes, Seymour Take One http://cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=1092 (http://cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=1092)
It's fun doing a little "Death Cameo" while rolling the camera after saving the lady. :D
Tadda, goes in order of left to right
Heres a chart I did which has all the Dizzy games and the formats they were released on. Your next challenge is to use it as a checklist and to tick off every egg.
(http://i.imgur.com/Lf6lIIt.png)
Thanks for that..
In theory, if 3D Deathchase can be ported from the Spectrum to the CPC, could the TID SE and 3 and a Half into Magicland be converted to the CPC?
Don' know if you'd be interested but the Retro Revival Event on August 9th/10th has a talk by Andrew Oliver - The History of Dizzy.
https://www.facebook.com/FusionRevival?fref=photo (https://www.facebook.com/FusionRevival?fref=photo)
Might be pf interest to you :)