The 1980s were a great time: Kelly Le Brock was still a bodacious chick, 9/11 was still twenty years away, Blossom was still a good decade away, so you didn't have Joey Lawrence hair envy yet and Dizzy The Magical Fantasist Egg was the alternative to tickling your balls with soda from a SodaStream.
Times may have changed; for instance Kelly Le Brock looks like someone melted a mariachi band, Joey Lawrence is bald and SodaStream still feels great on your nutsack, but Dizzy still remains in the hearts and minds of thirty year old men. Like a pixellated Diana, Princess of Hearts. Only more interesting and a better soundtrack. There’s only so much you can remix screeching tyres and a Martin Bashir interview.
So it's good news that a new version of Dizzy has been rumoured by Codemasters isn't it?
Exactly!
The ’80s mascot, who's career stalled when Edwina Curry went batshit mental about salmonella (probably), is said to be revealed once again tomorrow. Re-revealed, if you will.
The Dizzy franchise has been on hiatus since the 1992 Crystal Kingdom Dizzy, and there was even rumours that the egg hero was set to join Pat Sharp and Sinitta on this year?s I'm A Celebrity, but it was only Fatima Whitbread?s love-eggs. Which Sinitta smuggled in.
The filthy bitch.
There's no definite word on what platforms the new game will be appearing on, or even whether the Prince of Yolkfolk will be gracing Electronic Boutique or Woolworths shelves before Christmas but that doesn't matter because you should be getting yourselves to the doctors for anxiety tablets.
If this version of Dizzy is as difficult as the previous outings, with the annoyingly precise jumps, you\’ll need diazepam. Troo dat.
Abi says
Oi, plenty of 30-something women were fans as well. I was way more into the cute platformers than the beat-em-ups, and Dizzy was always my number one!