[{"TitleName":"Dizzy Down the Rapids","Publisher":"Code Masters Ltd","Author":"Allister Brimble, Michael A. Sanderson, Paul Griffiths","YearOfRelease":"Unknown","ZxDbId":"0009340","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Your Sinclair Issue 79, Jul 1992","Price":"£2.5","ReleaseDate":"1992-06-18","Editor":"Andy Hutchinson","TotalPages":68,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"SCHOOL'S OUT FOR EVER!\r\n\r\nWhen you have nothing to say, say nothing. I did. Anyway, what was the first thing you did after your last exam?\r\n\r\nEditor: Andy (Got arrested for being drunk and disorderly while at college) Hutchinson\r\nArt Editor: Andy (Flicked the V's at a teacher and then skipped home) Ounsted\r\nDeputy Editor: Linda (Went baby sitting) Barker\r\nStaff Writer: Jon (Sat down with a cream tart and a nice cup of tea) Pillar\r\nArt Assistant: Maryanne (Tried Sherry for the first time) Booth\r\nAdvertising Manager: Alison (Sighed) Morton\r\nSenior Sales Exec: Jackie (Went shopping) Garford\r\nProduction Coordinator: Lisa (Burned her books) Read\r\nPublisher: Jane (Went for a wee) Richardson\r\nPromotions Manager: Michelle (Went to see David Bowie in concert) Harris\r\nPromotions Assistant: Tamara (Burst into tears) Ward\r\nGroup Publisher: Greg (I Went screaming off in a customised Beetle across Waterloo Bridge shouting along to Talking Heads' Psycho Killer & The Only Ones' Another Girl Another Planet)Bingham\r\nCirculation Director: Sue (Went and had a froffy coffee) Hartley\r\nAssistant Publisher: Julie (Left Coventry instantly and vowed never to return) Stuckes\r\n\r\nYour Sinclair (Went to bed for a week). Future (Considered a career as a dentist) Publishing [redacted]\r\n\r\nManaging Director: Chris (Drank most of a bottle of bubbly and then... can't really remember) Anderson\r\n\r\nSubscriptions: Future Publishing Ltd [redacted]\r\n\r\n©Future Publishing 1992. No part of this magazine may be reproduced without written permission from Bertie Arbuthnot of Calcutta Deirdrie's motorway cafe.\r\n\r\nISSN: 0269 6983\r\n\r\nYour Sinclair fails its exams, but just doesn't care with other rebellious mags like: Commodore Format (Went on a Venture Scout jamboree), Amstrad Action (Burnt school books), Amiga Format (Went down to the beach in Bournemouth), PCW Plus (Dived fully clothed into a swimming pool), PC Answers (Signed up for re-sits), PC Plus (Cried), Sega Power (Won a race to get out of a three hour exam and into the bar first [winning time 45 mins]), Amiga Power (Asked everyone else what question five had actually meant), Amiga Shopper (Caught a plane to Venice), Classic CD (Listened to a nice symphony), Needlecraft (Stitched a noose), Cycling Plus (Went home), Photo Plus (Joined the moonies), Mountain Biking UK (Went to see a personal supervisor to explain why they'd only turned up for half an hour and written their name in the first exam of the season), PC Format (Fed school blazer to the dogs and watched them rip the thing to pieces), Public Domain (Broke wind), ST Format (Went inter-railing to Greece, France, Germany etc). Total! (Dossed in the sun until shoehorned out of the garden by mom and dad to go and get a job) and Today's Vegetarian (Went hurtling to the pub faster than you could say transcontinental plate tectonics) and coming soon... What Scart Lead.\r\n\r\nBut what we really want to know is... if Mickey's a mouse, Donald's a duck and Pluto's a dog, what the hell is Goofy?"},"MainText":"DIZZY DOWN THE RAPIDS\r\nCode Masters\r\n£3.99 cassette\r\n[redacted]\r\nReviewer: Jon Pillar\r\n\r\nHave the Codies flipped, or what? First they blatantly ripped off Bomb Jack with Super Seymour Saves The Planet, and now they've pirated the ideas behind Toobin'. I thought this sort of blatant rip-off went out of fashion in 1984. Anyway, you play the indestructible avoid (and his gal Daisy if you've a pal handy) and you have to paddle your way down an endless river. Luckily, you've had the foresight to pack your barrel with a load of apples, as it turns out the river is full of nasties, all hell-bent on having an omelette supper.\r\n\r\nThe graphics and sound are bright and cheerful, with loads of fluffy effects and squeaky noises respectively. The actual gameplay, I can't quite make up my mind about. I really liked Toobin' - it was spectacularly good fun whizzing along, dodging nasties and scraping through narrow gaps - so logically, I should be flipping over DDTR. You've probably guessed that I'm not, and the embarrassing thing is, I can't quite put my finger on the reason. Perhaps it's something to do with the control method - in Toobin', you rotated your, um, toob. then moved it forwards. In DDTR you simply move in four directions, and sadly this takes the manic urgency out wibbling around the screen. In addition, the whole game seems to move much more slowly than Toobin' - it's really more like Dizzy Down The Municipal Boating Pond.\r\n\r\nDDTR isn't a bad little game - it's quite fun with two players, and will probably be a smash hit with teeny Dizzy fans. It's just that if you re going to rip off a game, why not do it properly?","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"61","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Jon Pillar","Score":"65","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"Are those barrels? Or are they sticks of dynamite? Does anybody care? Oh."}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"65%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Sinclair User Issue 125, Jul 1992","Price":"£2.2","ReleaseDate":"1992-06-18","Editor":"Alan Dykes","TotalPages":52,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Alan 'Excellent!' Dykes\r\nDesign: Yvette 'Babe!' Nicholls\r\nSU Crew: Garth 'Bogus' Sumpter, Steve 'Party On' Keen, Ed 'Head' Laurence, Pete 'Source of all knowledege' Gerrard, Graham 'Hate Mail' Mason, Phillip 'Missing in action' Fisch, Jason 'Good game' Baptiste\r\nAd Manager: Tina 'Foxy lady' Zanelli\r\nAd Production: Matthew 'Yin-Yang' Walker\r\nMarketing Man.: Mark '?' Swallow\r\nMarketing Persons: Sarah 'Hello dearie' Ewing, Sarah 'TNT' Hilliard\r\nPublisher: Mike 'Malibu' Frey\r\nManaging Director: Terry 'The professionals' Pratt\r\n\r\n(c)1992 EMAP IMAGES\r\nPhone: [redacted] (is there anyone out there?)\r\nFax: [redacted] (Information at the end of your eyelids)\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nColour by those wonderful Colourtech people\r\nPrinted by Kingfisher\r\nTypeset by Altyp Inc\r\n\r\nAbsolutely no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in an electronic retrieval system or copied, resold etc with the prior permission of the publisher. However, if anyone feels like putting a copy of SU in a deep space probe, sent out to seek other worlds and communicate examples of earth's wonderful things, of which SU is probably the best example (along with a well known brand of lager) to alien races in space, I don't think Mike will mind too much! Y'all have a nice day now."},"MainText":"Label: Code Masters\r\nMemory: 48K/128K\r\nPrice: £3.99 Tape\r\nReviewer: Jason Baptiste\r\n\r\nAre you feeling under the weather and haven't had a laugh in yonks? Is your head is in a dizzy spell and seeking an adventurous game. Well look no further, this game is a right barrel of laughs!\r\n\r\nYes indeed, Dizzy down the rapids is a game which will put egg on your face if you're not a bit of a dab hand at steering barrels over waterfalls. Two players can play the game simultaneously, one controlling Dizzy himself and the other controlling his ubiquitous sidekick and long time beau Daisy.\r\n\r\nThe story all started in an enchanted forest while the two young eggs were picking blueberries. They were having such a good time they didn't notice that they were drifting further and further into the forest when suddenly, in its depths, they were confronted by their old adversary Rockwart the troll and a gang of ferocious looking henchtrolls. To escape these evil enemies Dizzy and Daisy run to the river, jump into two barrels and shoot off down the rapids.\r\n\r\nYou'll certainly crack some shells in Dizzy Down The Rapids as you control your individual egg in a barrel, trying desperately to avoid collisions with rocks and islands and vicious animals. There's is no wine in this barrel, just a limited supply of apples which Dizzy and Daisy use to defend themselves. Face crazy crocodiles, barmy butterflies and terrifying trolls all of whom will try to sink your barrel and boil your egg. On the river bank there are also people throwing apples in an attempt to halt your characters as they ride through waterfalls and frantically negotiate the rapids.\r\n\r\nThere's only a limited amount of apples so use them carefully or you'll quickly find your self unarmed. However Dizzy may collect extra apples by shooting crocs and other creatures who leave behind a supply of fruit. There are also bonus points hidden on green rocks in the middle if the stream. But watch out, you can lose a lot of energy points by doing this as the barrel might take the wrong direction on the stream and you'll have to work your way into the centre again.\r\n\r\nWhen your energy has been completely depleted you will lose a life but luckily Dizzy has four in store so the game doesn't finish too quickly.\r\n\r\nGraphics are clear and colourful and the game handles well but it could have been made a bit more adventurous by having many different enemies and more varied landscapes as you travel down stream. To sum it up in an egg shell Dizzy down the rapids is a very simple game concept, reminiscent of Toobin' that is moderately enjoyable but wont retain your interest for long.","ReviewerComments":["The most annoying thing about Dizzy Down The Rapids is the limitations of its two player mode, you keep having to wait for the other play to catch up - what a bummer. That said it's not a bad game for really young Dizzy fans but anyone else will quickly tire of it.\r\nEd Lawrence"],"OverallSummary":"Dizzy Down The Rapids was not really my kind of game... It's just a little too boring. Although you have to shoot everything in sight there's no real competition to speak of and although it looks moderately good it's rather slow and hasn't much lastability.","Page":"24","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Jason Baptiste","Score":"67","ScoreSuffix":"%"},{"Name":"Ed Lawrence","Score":"","ScoreSuffix":""}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"Baddies can chuck apples too!"},{"Text":"Dizzy goes over a waterfall, not too much danger though."},{"Text":"It's a troll in a barrel!"}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Graphics","Score":"78%","Text":""},{"Header":"Sound","Score":"65%","Text":""},{"Header":"Playability","Score":"70%","Text":""},{"Header":"Lastability","Score":"65%","Text":""},{"Header":"Overall","Score":"67%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]