"How did the Dizzy games fair over in the US when compared to the UK market?

Dizzy was a bigger hit in the UK, largely due to the platforms it was on. When Dizzy was released in the US it was only on NES and Mario and other games were very well established. Also this was Codemasters first outing in America and so they needed to build their business from scratch. That said, because the US is at least a five times bigger market than the UK and the games were sold at equivalent of £30 – we pro..."

Lorfar1us via nes-bit.com »

"Andrew and Philip Oliver, often informally known as the Oliver Twins, agreed to sit down with Cubed3's Mike Mason at a recent Videogame Nation event. Over a table of Pepsi and Eton Mess, the creators of Dizzy and co-founders of Blitz Games Studios chatted candidly about all facets of their company, their cross-platform developments, their love of technology - and a little on that spinning egg, of course."

mfcx42 via www.cubed3.com »