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Chubby Gristle was one of my favourite games on the Spectrum. Never noticed that reference on the loading screen, strangely enough.

What are all these new versions like? I'm pretty wary after that new Sega Megadrive/Genesis several years ago turned out to be rubbish.

They should revive Dizzy. It's a great format which has tonnes of potential. My only worry is they'll try to "modernise" the gameplay and mess it up, like they did with some of those terrible 3D Sonic games.

A lot of software companies seemed to have a policy of just porting Spectrum games to the C64. Better music in the C64 Dizzy games but shame they couldn't have made more of an effort with the graphics. The C64 versions of things like Spike in Transylvania, Seymour Stuntman and the CJ games show what...

Did anyone else here play Wally Week games? I remember the Spectrum versions of "Herbert's Dummy Run", "Three Weeks in Paradise" and "Everyone's A Wally" (which even came with its own single). These were kind of proto-Dizzy games. "Three Weeks in Paradise" was easily the best of the Wally Weeks. It ...

Does anyone else remember this game for the Amiga? Great platform game, kept me addicted for months, even had a number of Dizzy-like puzzles.

Spectrum and Amiga versions were great. C64 version was terrible - it seemed like a very bad port from the Spectrum and had slow screen updates and a very unresponsive "objects held" menu.

The text showing hints for games seems to be missing. For example: "to get past the sirens you need to ". (gap) I am new to this forum. Is there something I have to adjust on this forum to see the text?