FANTASTIC DIZZY | Famicom Adventures #9

“ARRRGGGGHHH! Haylp! No! I can’t stand it! I’m seeing Dizzys before my eyes! Yibble! Yibble!!” - editor of the January 1990 issue of Crash magazine
In the future, I promise to stay focused strictly on the Famicom, not the NES. Well, except when I don’t. But mostly I will!
My Twitter: / mackerelphones
My website: mackerelphones.com
Playlist: • Famicom Adventures
Play every Dizzy game online: yolkfolk.com
Wonderful Dizzy link: yolkfolk.com/WonderfulDizzy/
Photos of the Darling and Oliver brothers, plus reading about the history of Codemasters
www.retrogamer.net/profiles/c...
Additional Dizzy scans and artwork from yolkfolk.com.
All the music is from the Dizzy games, with the exception of the following:
“The Legendary Hero” from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
“Firelink Shrine” from Dark Souls
Extra footage, because the Dizzy games are too hard to me:
ZX Spectrum Longplays [103] Dizzy - The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure
Played by Mad-Matt
World of Longplays
• ZX Spectrum Longplay [...
Fantasy World Dizzy Walkthrough
RZX Archive
• Fantasy World Dizzy Wa...
ZX Spectrum Longplay [106] Magicland Dizzy
Played by Mad-Matt
World of Longplays
• ZX Spectrum Longplay [...
Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy Walkthrough Gameplay
Played by Prince Nick
RetroEightBitHD
• Fantastic Adventures o...
I use footage of these video games:
The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy (1991)
Dizzy: The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure (1987)
Treasure Island Dizzy (1988)
Manic Miner (1983)
Fantasy World Dizzy (1989)
Fast Food (1989)
Pachio-kun 5 (1993)
Magicland Dizzy (1990)
Spellbound Dizzy (1991)
Bubble Dizzy (1990)
Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures (1994)
Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest (1987)
Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk (1991)
Dizzy Down the Rapids (1991)
Knight Lore (1984)
Knight Lore: Majou no Ookami Otoko (1986)
Wonderland Dizzy (2015)
Wonderful Dizzy (2020)
I also use clips from the movies The Battle of Algiers (1966), The Birds (1963), and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975).

[@mackerelphones]

CORRECTION: As a commenter below noticed, I seem to have made an error in the video. I state that there are multiple items the player can use to pay the troll guard outside of Keldor. I probably confused later remakes of Fantastic Dizzy for the original, as in this NES version I don't think there is any item except the bag of coins that the troll accepts (without, say, hacking the game or something).

[@goofmuffin]

i imagine the yolk folk are somewhat like axolotls, not developing beyond the egg stage of their lifecycle

[@yolkfolk_com]

Eggcellent stuff.
Many thanks for the shout out too. ^_^

[@KOTEBANAROT]

Hey look, its a giant talking egg!

[@gryzorr]

Thanks for the review, really appreciated. Good work!

[@NatTheNewt]

I like how he rolls (:

[@BagOfMagicFood]

Huh, I've never seen the Snappy Weed come back to life before. I'll have to look into when that happens, along with something I've seen in a few others' playthroughs where one of the stars respawns after collecting the final star.
Now I also need to find out what other items the troll guard will accept!

[@mackerelphones]

I could have sworn you could give the troll another item, but I'm realizing now I might be mistaken

[@BagOfMagicFood]

​@@mackerelphones I know the Genesis, Amiga, and PC versions put in a second bag of gold coins to provide another way out of the city since they removed the river mini-game. Could that be what you were thinking of?

[@mackerelphones]

@@BagOfMagicFood Very likely. So many dang versions of this game

[@KOTEBANAROT]

This is a... hmm. This sure is a lore. Did they ever say why the evil wizard wants the cute athletic yolk gf
If they made the yolkfolk be cute race of animal people i imagine this series wouldve had a much more robust fan community. Sure this attention would come for a *price* but...

[@mackerelphones]

My guess is the evil birds carried Daisy to the sky castle like a cat leaves a dead mouse on the door mat, and Zaks was like, "Okay, I'll lock you up, I hate your kind anyway"

[@birdsofdestiny1823]

Please play Shantae and the Seven Sirens

[@mackerelphones]

I plan to! Eventually

[@birdsofdestiny1823]

@@mackerelphones thanks