The Oliver Twins have announced that the iconic British video game character Dizzy is set to return for his first completely new adventure in 26 years this coming week. Inspired by L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Wonderful Dizzy has been designed by The Oliver Twins using traditional methods (plus a little help […]
Royal Mail to commemorate iconic British games with new stamps
Royal Mail are celebrating British video games this January with a collection of new stamps showing iconic games from the 1980s and 1990s. During these two decades British developers dominated the 8 bit and 16 bit markets with some absolutely fantastic games. There’s so many great games from British Developers during this period that it […]
Crystal Kingdom Dizzy remastered and released for Easter!
To welcome in this Easter morning there is nothing better than been handed a special egg that has been lovingly crafted to make you feel rather happy. Most of us are just a-ok with the latest offering for Mars or Smarties, but for the Retrogaming community to awaken and discover that a classic Dizzy title […]
Wonderland Dizzy announced at the “Let’s Go Dizzy!” event!
Here at Flickering Myth we’ve caught glimpses of a new Dizzy game over on the horizon, coming from the direction of the Oliver Twins from Radiant Worlds for some time, but what we didn’t expect from this game was it is technically twenty-two years old and that it will also be free to everyone! Just announced at “Let’s […]
Interview – Philip Oliver discusses SkySaga at PLAY Expo
Villordsutch interviews Philip Oliver and they talk about SkySaga… I met Andrew Oliver earlier in the day as he was setting up the SkySaga stall. Philip had decided to drive up. The stand place was already getting busy and I was also chatting with Boomkin the Community bod. When I returned later for my interview, […]
Are the Oliver Twins making a new Dizzy game?
Here is a true blast from the very dust-caked past for those of you of a certain age, and those who remember when 8-bit games where just actually called “games”. If can you recall when we traded these games upon magnetic tape we called “cassettes”, then you will also remember a certain egg from the […]
