{"id":120303,"date":"2020-11-05T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/switch_is_getting_a_brand-new_dizzy_game_and_it_was_coded_during_lockdown"},"modified":"2020-11-05T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T16:15:00","slug":"switch-is-getting-a-brand-new-dizzy-game-and-it-was-coded-during-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/05\/switch-is-getting-a-brand-new-dizzy-game-and-it-was-coded-during-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch Is Getting A Brand-New Dizzy Game, And It Was Coded During Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f3745293ea238\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f3745293ea238\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Dizzy\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f3745293ea238\/dizzy.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f3745293ea238\/dizzy.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"392\" alt=\"Dizzy\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a British gamer who grew up in the &#8217;80s then <strong>Dizzy<\/strong> will need no introduction. The egg-based hero created by The Oliver Twins starred in numerous adventures across a wide range of systems, including the NES.<\/p>\n<p>Some of those very same adventures have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/10\/feature_evercades_latest_cart_is_offering_a_vital_connection_to_nintendo_history\">immortalised<\/a> on the Evercade handheld recently \u2013 but if you&#8217;re looking for some brand-new Yolkfolk action, then you&#8217;re in luck.<\/p>\n<p>The Oliver Twins have <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheOliverTwins\/posts\/2773643586181186\">just announced<\/a> that they&#8217;re about to release details on a brand-new Dizzy instalment that was coded for Switch during the first UK lockdown (this week, we&#8217;ve just entered <strong>Lockdown II: The Wrath of Khan<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re excited that a press release is coming out very soon of our new Dizzy game that we wrote on Switch during the first lockdown!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s not much else beyond that announcement, but the fact that Dizzy is getting a new outing is cause for celebration. Let us know if you&#8217;re looking forward to seeing the news by leaving a comment below.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re new to the series, then this video by Slope&#8217;s Game Room will give you a good grounding:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"><\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a British gamer who grew up in the &#8217;80s then Dizzy will need no introduction. The egg-based hero created by The Oliver Twins starred in numerous adventures across a wide range of systems, including the NES. Some of those very same adventures have been immortalised on the Evercade handheld recently \u2013 but if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}