Fast Food Dizzy
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Fast Food is an arcade style video game much in the design of Pac-Man
Pac-Man
is an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution in the United States by Midway, first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. Immensely popular from its original release to the present day, Pac-Man is considered one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games,...

featuring the video game character, Dizzy the anthropomorphic egg designed by the British born Oliver twins
Oliver Twins
The Oliver Twins are two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver, who started to professionally develop computer games while they were still at school. Their first game, Super Robin Hood for the Amstrad CPC, was published in 1985 by Codemasters...

. The game was originally released in December, 1987 and published by Codemasters
Codemasters
The Codemasters Software Company Limited, or Codemasters is a British video game developer founded by Richard and David Darling in 1986...

.

This was the third game to feature Dizzy, however until now they had been Adventure games, because of the simplicity to design Arcade style video games, the game was playable within three days of work and only required two more weeks to finalise all graphics, interface and music.

The game was originally to be a marketing tool for the Happy Eater
Happy Eater
Happy Eater was a roadside restaurant chain in the United Kingdom, that ran from 1973 till 1996 and was notable particularly amongst a certain generation for the lego that was inside the restaurant for children to play with, and the imaginatively-shaped playground equipment outside.-History:Happy...

 chain of restaurants, but this was dropped during development and Dizzy was added to the game.

A shortened, altered version of the game, entitled Easter Eggstravaganza Dizzy was made available on Amiga Action
Amiga Action
Amiga Action was a monthly magazine about Amiga computer games. It was published in the United Kingdom by Europress and ran for 89 full issues, from October 1989 to December 1996, making it the longest running UK Amiga games magazine. After its closure, it was merged into sister publication Amiga...

coverdiscs in April 1998. Completion of this game would give players a code which would allow them to enter a competition in the magazine.
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