''Kwik Snax'' is an arcade style maze video game play developed by the

Oliver Twins Andrew Nicholas Oliver and Philip Edward Oliver, together known as the Oliver Twins, are British twin brothers and video game designers. They began to professionally develop computer games while they were still at school, contributing their fir ...

and was published in 1990 by Codemasters for the Amstrad CPC, Spectrum,

Commodore 64 The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas). It has been listed in the Guinness ...

, MS-DOS, and

Amiga Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16- or 32-bit processors, 256 KB or more of RAM, mouse-based GUIs, and significantly improved graphi ...

.Kwik Snax at Moby Games
/ref> It was the fifth game in the '' Dizzy'' series and is considered a sequel to ''

Fast Food Fast food is a type of mass-produced food designed for commercial resale, with a strong priority placed on speed of service. It is a commercial term, limited to food sold in a restaurant or store with frozen, preheated or precooked ingredien ...

''. After the Oliver twins had completed ''Operation Gunship'' they wanted to release another puzzle game similar to ''Fast Food'' which only required two weeks of development time, but unexpectedly it required much more time. The Rear cover (Amstrad version) says: "Dizzy to the rescue! Outwit Zaks' court jesters, bumble bees, clockwork mice and more in the Land of Personality. Mega features and fantastic fun in the incredibly playable, action packed, arcade puzzle game!"

Reception

''Kwik Snax'' received a 92/100 from both '' Your Sinclair'' and '' Crash'' magazines. The Commodore 64 port, which was different even in gameplay from the ZX Spectrum, did not have such a glamorous reception. '' Zzap!64'' awarded 80/100, mentioning a lack of polish on the graphics and AI of the game.

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* * 1990 video games Amiga games Amstrad CPC games Atari ST games Codemasters games Commodore 64 games Dizzy (series) DOS games Europe-exclusive video games Single-player video games Video games about food and drink Video games developed in the United Kingdom ZX Spectrum games {{maze-videogame-stub