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** The [[Grand Finale]] of almost every single game usually involves a map-long Fetch Quest from one end to the other, usually as far as it's possible to go, and usually back again. (''Magic Land'', for example; go to Hades, get Wizardslayer Trident; traverse map to the top of the Ice Tower, use Trident, get Zaks' Ring; traverse map back to The Cracks Of Gehenna, [[Lord of the Rings|throw Ring into lava]]. Then start hunting for the [[Last Lousy Point|Last Lousy Diamond...]])
* [[Follow the Leader]]: Dizzy's success led to many similar arcade adventure games, a lot of them also published by Codemasters. Examples include ''Murray Mouse: Supercop'', ''Spike in Transilvania'' (sic) and the Seymour series.
* [[Gaiden Game]]: This series got some very odd spinoffs, including ''Fast Food'' (a sort of [[
* [[Game Breaking Bug]] (or possibly a [[Good Bad Bug]]): ''Treasure Island Dizzy'' in particular would sometimes misload, giving you mysterious floating scenery, jumbled music and holes in the floor. You could still walk around and explore, but would inevitably end up either freezing the game or falling through one of the holes and tumbling through the sky forever.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Egg-related puns feature heavily in the games, to the point of eggstreme eggsasperation.
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* [[Promoted to Unlockable]]: Daisy becomes a playable character in ''Dizzy Down the Rapids''.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Various, ranging from the works of J. Milton Hayes, to the rest of the [[Code Masters]] library, to pretty much every [[Fairy Tale]] ever written.
** ''Magic Land Dizzy'' has a clever little puzzle that references [[
*** Not to mention the Billy Goats Gruff, Alice in Wonderland, Lord of the Rings, Aladdin, the legend of King Arthur, the Pied Piper of Hamlyn, the Frog Prince, the Wizard of Oz, Sleeping Beauty and probably at least one more that's been forgotten. Seriously. ''EVERY'' [[Fairy Tale]] ever written is in these games somewhere. That list is just ''one game'' and there's a dozen of these things.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''Seymour Goes to Hollywood'' was initially conceived as a Dizzy game, until it was decided that Dizzy didn't belong in a real world setting. Several more Seymour games followed in the same formula as the Dizzy adventures.
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