Codemasters hints at the return of Dizzy

It's the news many thousands of veteran gamers have been waiting for, but few thought they'd ever see. Dizzy, the egg-like hero who appeared in a range of highly successful platform adventures during the 8bit and 16bit eras, is coming back. Codemasters, the game's publisher since the first title, 1986's Dizzy: The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure, has today unveiled a teasing video and website , giving few details, but dropping a lot of very bad egg puns. "It's just the start of a great little eggventure," suggested the publisher's head of communications, Rich Eddy, in an email earlier. "More tomorrow, yolks. Erm, folks." The statement is in line with the pun-ridden humour of the games, which usually challenged the rotund hero to save his friends and escape enemies by locating objects and working out what to do with them. Designed by Philip and Andrew Oliver, now the heads of Blitz Games Studios, the titles had a Pythonesque atmosphere, both surreal and silly, and they developed a cult following that continues to this day. Codemasters is expected to provide more information tomorrow, but we can expect the new Dizzy title to appear on iOS platforms first. A boxed copy of one of the most popular instalments in the series – Dizzy, Prince of the Yolk Folk – is visible in one shot from the teaser movie (at 21 seconds), so it could be that the comeback title will be a straight conversion of that 1990 classic.