Tag: Oliver Twins
Yandex Retro Games Battle is a game development contest, organized by the Yandex Museum that brought to life amazing games for the ZX Spectrum, like Marsmare: Alienation and White Jaguar. If released in the 80s, these games would have made the developers rich folks and the blockbusters of the time look not so incredible as our memory tells us! This…
Treasure Island Dizzy is a game released in 1988 by Codemasters. Developed by the Oliver Twins, the game was initially released for the ZX Spectrum and followed versions for many platforms: Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, NES, Amiga CD32, Windows, and Atari Jaguar. As you can see, the Plus/4 is not in the list! Don’t sweat!…
Good news for all you Dizzy fans! The famous Oliver Twins have given Spectrum Computing website permission to host their ZX Spectrum back catalogue! You can now download the following titles from their website: Ghost Hunters, Grand Prix Sim., Dizzy, Panic Dizzy, Fantasy World Dizzy, Treasure Island Dizzy, Pro Ski Simulator, 3D StarFighter, Jet Bike Simulator, Race Against Time, Pro…
“Fresh from the press”, this new video shows the Oliver Twins talking about the new Dizzy game that will be made for the ZX Spectrum Next and given for free to all backers. In the funny 3-minute video, the twins reveal that the new game will be called “Wonderful Dizzy”, and it will take direct inspiration from the classic The Wonderful…
As I am writing this post, the ZX Spectrum Next campaign is entering its last week and is £991 short to reach the astonishing mark of half million pounds! Henrique and team had created a new stretch goal to be unlocked after the £500,000 mark that will make all backers very happy: a new Dizzy game made exclusively for the ZX Spectrum…
Following the recent buzz about the new Wonderland Dizzy game, the Oliver Twins have also made available the (until now) unreleased Nintendo NES title Wonderland Dizzy and put it online for free. RetroCollect website reports that “This fantastic discovery is now sitting proudly on the newly launched Wonderland Dizzy website which includes an online Nintendo NES emulator to sample the game. Featuring…
BUBBLEDIZZY-MBSDH- is the standard game of Bubble Dizzy by Codemasters but with additional 25 in-game features that have been added by Hackersoft. The StoryDizzy’s in trouble – again! Dizzy was taking a boat journey to visit his girlfriend, Daisy and he presented her with a glittering pearl necklace (the old romantic). But! Catastrophe strikes as Dizzy discovers he’s not on…
The Oliver Twins are two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver known for their work as video game developers. They began to professionally develop computer games while they were still at school, contributing their first type-in game to a magazine in 1983. They worked with publishers Codemasters for a number of years following their first collaboration Super Robin Hood, most…
