Community discussion

Your favourite version

Started by Peter Teal on 16 January 2007 • 2,308 views

31 posts

Poll Results

What is your favourite version of this game?

Nintendo NES (Original / Blue logo)0 votes

Nintendo NES (Aladdin / Red logo)0 votes

Amiga0 votes

Sega Master System0 votes

Sega Mega Drive / Genesis2 votes

PC DOS / IBM0 votes

2 recorded voters.

#7183713 October 2010

Posted by: @mataeus

Lemmings 2 needs to be the Amiga version. The original and best!

True..true. DOS version is a great version. Anyway, what about BIG 6? Anything special in that version? Someone have that version? I planned to do longplay of whole BIG 6 game.

#7187320 October 2010

I have no idea, but if you find anything special, you should certainly include it in your longplays!

#7187420 October 2010

Yup. But cant find a rom(only a torrent,but I dont use torrents anymore) {dizzy}:mad:

#7188121 October 2010

What is BIG 6?

#7188522 October 2010

From a quick Web search, I've found that it's a collection of 6 Dizzy games for the Commodore Amiga CD32; basically, it's every Dizzy adventure game that had been released for Amiga except Fantasy World Dizzy. And the version of Fantastic Dizzy included on it is said to be updated to take advantage of CD music and AGA graphics.

#7188722 October 2010

Thanks :)
How come no Fantasy World? That's an odd exclusion...

#7190623 October 2010

I dunno, maybe space was getting tight and they had to drop one. I think Fantasy World Dizzy was one of the earliest 16-bit Dizzy updates and the only one where the in-game sprites were made to resemble the large artworks (see Dizzy's hat, nose, arms and legs), so they probably also thought it would look strange next to all the other games with the more traditional Dizzy design.

As for Fantastic Dizzy, I remember seeing rumors on this forum that the CD32 version added a save feature and the river rapids mini-game. Therefore I hope Lemmy finds a copy of it so we can have video proof of this stuff.

#7193623 October 2010

Found this link:
http://snesorama.us/board/showthread.php?p=357031

It has a download of The Big 6, Hopefully it works and dont give me any problems. If so, Fantastic Dizzy for CD32 is coming soon...

#7219726 November 2010

Did you find anything cool yet? I was thinking that whoever plays that compilation should check to see if the "Trade coin for bean, trade cow for Prince's secret sign" trick works, to help confirm whether it's a MegaDrive-only secret.

#722213 December 2010

Well, havent played it.There will be NES longplays about Fastastic Dizzy and Treasure island Dizzy coming soon.. CD32 games doesnt run so easily on WinUAE. I should ask soon how setup those(kickstart roms). As soon as that happens I will make a longplay.

#7501023 July 2011

i voted for the Amiga version as the Amiga was the computer i had growing up and where i played most (if not all) the Dizzy games at first, well i may have played some on the PC but they were very similar ports

i have since having the internet tried other versions of the game but the Amiga beats them still in my opinion, i love the music, graphics and of course the games overall plot and length

the length of course makes this trickier then some Dizzy games (but at least Theodore is on hand to grant extra lives) and that for a while put me off playing it but i'm happy to report recently i completed it, even if it did take a few hours {dizzy}:dizsmile:

i like the reuse of puzzles, combination of characters and the little extra games added in such as Bubble Dizzy and the Minecart Chase - i'm almost sad to have completed it as it means i have completed all the Dizzy adventures on the Amiga so it is either onto 8-bit versions or just run through them all again (which wouldn't be a bad thing)