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 […]
A brand new Dizzy game is coming to the ZX Spectrum Next!
The ZX Spectrum Next is doing fantastically well on Kickstarter and with only nine days to go it looked set to hit a £500,000 – double its wanted total – before it closed. Well, today’s announcement from the Oliver Twins quite possibly may have just sealed its half-a-million mark. Appearing on the ZX Spectrum Next […]
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 […]
The Dizzy Eggshellent Eggshibit opens today at the NVA in Nottingham
Back at the end of March we told you here at Flickering Myth about the rather special upcoming “Dizzy Eggshellent Eggshibit” event at the National Videogame Arcade (NVA) in Nottingham. Celebrating thirty years of the boxing-gloved egg – from The Oliver Twins – which graced both 8-bit and 16-bit machines. Well today’s the day, the doors […]
Celebrate 30 Years of Dizzy at the National Videogame Arcade in April
Back in 1987 an egg somersaulted and then barrel-rolled onto numerous 8-bit machines, it then grabbed the gamers of the day adoration and quite honestly has never lost it. Dizzy was his name and this year – 2017 – he’s celebrating his 30th Anniversary and it’s being celebrated in style. Dizzy appeared thanks to the […]
Let’s Go Dizzy! An evening with the Oliver Twins at the National Video Arcade in December
Back in October 2015 we brought you the news that Chris Wilkins, the author of The Little Book of ZX Spectrum Games and The Story of U.S. Gold, was announcing the launch of his new book, The Story of The Oliver Twins – Let’s Go Dizzy on Kickstarter. This broke its target needed, now a year […]
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 […]
The Oliver Twins to make a special announcement at “Let’s Go Dizzy”
Something special is coming! Numerous hints have been dropped over the past couple of months from the Oliver Twins – at Radiant Worlds – and here at Flickering Myth we mentioned, back in September [see here], a rather cryptic message which was posted upon the Dizzy Facebook page. Not only this when Flickering Myth recently […]
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 […]