Kickstarter for Panic! Dizzy, an unreleased NES game, already hits its goal

Panic! Dizzy was originally created on the Spectrum in 1991, followed by all popular computers. Designed by Philip Oliver and Programmed by Big Red Software. It came about after the Oliver Twins bought a Gameboy in the airport and played Tetris on the plane all the way to CES in Las Vegas. This inspired them to make a Dizzy puzzle game. The first was set in a factory with conveyor belts sorting boxes, but sadly it lacked the important addictive game play so essential to puzzle games.

By 1992, the Twins were busy writing games on the NES and felt that they should revisit this game and in doing so try and recreate the elusive additive puzzle gameplay they were attempting originally. Knowing that puzzle games had a tough time in the market, they decided to pack in 5 different puzzle games into the 64KB Cartridge to justify the price.

Unfortunately Panic! Dizzy wasn’t released by Codemasters at the time and was moth-balled. It was only recently rediscovered and restored by Dizzy fan Lukasz Kur for this very Kickstarter Campaign.

The goal for this Kickstarter was to pull in enough funds to release Panic! Dizzy on an NES cartridge. The campaign was looking for $18k to achieve that, and the great news is that the goal has already been hit! There's still 29 days to go on the campaign, so if you want to be the proud owner of the cart above, make sure to kick in your cash!