I don't have much to add except that I prefer the Egghead games any day. They're well-made platform games. What's not to love. :)
I never liked Dizzy one bit. At all.
They're technically eggcellently made though, but very different types of games so it wouldn't be fair to compare them to each other.
...that's not to say that Egghead can't be an homage to Dizzy, though.
I wouldn't compare the first 3 Eggheads to the first 3 Dizzy's. But I prefer Egghead 4, and 5 as platform arcade adventures to anything past the 3rd Dizzy game.
To me Egghead 4 and 5 really put the fun back into fetch em' ups. Good music, good graphics, silly story, challenging without being annoying, and most importantly fun.
Dizzy 1,2, and 3 I love, 4 is OK, but 5, 6, 7, 8, 12000, and so on really put the annoyingness, frustration, and drudgery back into a genre that was already quite watered down.
Then there's Hamte Damte. So it seems speccy developers were obsessed with eggs. Eggs and miners. With the miners strike going on in the eighties it's not surprising they appear in so many games. The egg situation is a little more confusing.
As other has said eggs are easy to draw and rotate even if they are made just of a few pixels.
As for Dizzy and Egghead they are a bit different games. Dizzy is more about story, dialogue and adventure while Egghead is more arcade game testing your reflexes.
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I never liked Dizzy one bit. At all.
They're technically eggcellently made though, but very different types of games so it wouldn't be fair to compare them to each other.
...that's not to say that Egghead can't be an homage to Dizzy, though.
My games for the Spectrum: Dingo, The Speccies, The Speccies 2, Vallation, SQIJ.
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To me Egghead 4 and 5 really put the fun back into fetch em' ups. Good music, good graphics, silly story, challenging without being annoying, and most importantly fun.
Dizzy 1,2, and 3 I love, 4 is OK, but 5, 6, 7, 8, 12000, and so on really put the annoyingness, frustration, and drudgery back into a genre that was already quite watered down.
As for Dizzy and Egghead they are a bit different games. Dizzy is more about story, dialogue and adventure while Egghead is more arcade game testing your reflexes.
i heard they were getting back handers from the british egg council.:p
I'm not going to ask if that actually exists, I remember the Hazlenut incident :D