1983 · Port · Dempa Shimbunsha · Arcade

Dig Dug

Port

Dig Dug is a 1-2 player arcade game in which you have to use your shovel to dig your way through the earth. Stopping you from doing this are two monsters, called Pooka and Fygar, who will continually chase you around. The only weapon that you carry is an air pump, which you can use to inflate the monsters to the point where they explode. (if you start to inflate them but stop doing so, the monsters will get turned back to their normal selves).

Released: 31 December 1983
Platforms: NEC PC-6000 Series
Genres: Arcade
Developers: Dempa Shimbunsha
Publishers: Dempa Shimbunsha
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Side view
Themes: Action
Languages: English

›Story

In Dig Dug, you play as Taizo Hori, a subterranean explorer and tunnel digger. His mission is to clear the underground of Tokyo—or a distant alien planet in some lore—of two newly discovered, invasive monster species: the goggle-wearing Pookas and the fire-breathing green dragons known as Fygars.