Longest time between releases in a videogame franchise

Philip and Andrew Oliver have revived the Dizzy franchise by working on a new game called Wonderful Dizzy set for February 2018 release for the Spectrum Next computer – the first Dizzy game for the Spectrum series of computers since Crystal Kingdom Dizzy (Codemasters, 1992) – 26 years previously. Not only is it being created by the developers of the original series, but it also represents the longest gap between games of any franchise on a related platform.

Dizzy was an iconic gaming character brought to life on 8-bit computers in 1987. Starting with Dizzy – The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure (Codemasters, 1987), it spawned many sequels within the core series as well as a host of spin-off games.

Since 1992, the Oliver Twins (as brothers Philip and Andrew are also known) have dusted off and re-released older games including Wonderland Dizzy in 2015 and Mystery World Dizzy in 2017.