EDGE - The tale of how the Oliver twins got into the videogame industry is one of those Britsoft yarns, comparable to the one about Gremlin starting up above a computer shop or Peter Molyneux and Les Edgar kick-starting the development of Populous after receiving free Amiga hardware that should have gone to Torus, not Taurus.
Royal Mail are jumping on the retro gaming bandwagon with a range of stamps, postcards and other collectables celebrating UK designed video games.
Remember Dizzy? Probably not, but a Fantastic Dizzy prototype was just discovered! Any ground-breaking secrets inside that ol' egg's shell?
Let's Go Dizzy is a book by Chris Wilkins and Roger Kean that covers the legacy of the Oliver Twins and the Dizzy games. Voletic took a look.
I grew up playing dizzy games on my amstrad cpc 464, the oliver twins made a heap of great games back in the day for amstrad spectrum and commodore. There is a youtube channel by a guy called xyphoe that has done a couple interviews with one of the oliver twins if anyone wants a good amstrad retro channel I suggest you sub to him.
