The Excellent Dizzy Collection

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The Excellent Dizzy Collection
System(s): Sega Game Gear
Publisher: Codemasters
Developer: Interactive Studios
Genre: Compilation, Adventure, Puzzle, Action
Number of players: 1-2 (alternating)
Official in-game languages: English Français Deutsch Italiano Español
Release Date RRP Code EU 1994 T-121003 UK 1994-09-23 AU 1994

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The Excellent Dizzy Collection is a compilation containing three Dizzy games for the Sega Game Gear - Dizzy the Adventurer, Panic Dizzy and Go Dizzy Go!.

History

Development

The Excellent Dizzy Collection was born out of financial troubles following the failure of the Aladdin Deck Enhancer for the Nintendo Entertainment System. US-distributor of Codemasters products, Camerica was forced to close, and access to money and staff were limited. Initially developer Interactive Studios planned to re-release or port their Aladdin Deck Enhancer games to the Sega Master System; Dizzy the Adventurer, which had been packaged with all Aladdin adapters, and three work-in-progress games; Dreamworld Pogie, Go Dizzy Go! and Wonderland Dizzy.

Codemasters, however, had other ideas, and feeling that the games would be insubstantial on their own, caused Interactive Studios to bundle them together in one package. The non-Dizzy title Dreamworld Pogie was dropped (and has not been seen since) as was, inevitably, Wonderland Dizzy, after Codemasters decided they did not want two adventure games on the same cartridge. In its place, a port of an older Dizzy game, Dizzy Panic!, now re-titled Panic Dizzy.

As a result of this series of events, it took 22 years for Wonderland Dizzy to finally be released to the public.

Release

Ports were planned for a number of systems for release in January 1994 - for the aforementioned Sega Master System, the Sega Mega Drive (later pushed to April along with a Mega CD version, and then to August) and IBM PC compatibles, however in the end only the Sega Game Gear version saw the light of day, and only in Europe. However, the Game Gear port is not optimised specifically for the system - it runs in the Master System's native resolution and does not tap into the extended colour palette.

Magazine articles

Main article: The Excellent Dizzy Collection/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Computer + Video Giochi (IT) 73 Mega Force (FR) PAL 69 Play Time (DE) 71 Sega Magazine (UK) PAL 89 Todo Sega (ES) 77

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The Excellent Dizzy Collection

Game Gear, UK
Cover
Cart Manual

Game Gear, FR/DE
Cover
Cart Manual

Game Gear, AU
Cover
Cart Manual

Unreleased versions

The Excellent Dizzy Collection
System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Master System
Publisher: Codemasters
Developer: Interactive Studios
Planned release date(s): 1994-01

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 aa140c9c MD5 613376b7b53e43ba17ae1b62da3c9251 SHA-1 db3c0686715373242911f8471a1e91673811d62a	512kB	1994-06-07	Cartridge (EU)
?	CRC32 8813514b MD5 SHA-1	256kB	1993-11-25					Page