

Once all the enemies have been defeated, Dig Dug progresses to the next stage. Bonus points are awarded for squashing multiple enemies with a single rock, and dropping two rocks in a stage yields a bonus item, which can be eaten for points. Dig Dug can use an air pump to inflate them to bursting, or crush them under large falling rocks. The player controls protagonist Dig Dug (Taizo Hori) to eliminate each screen's enemies: Pookas, red creatures with comically large goggles, and Fygars, fire-breathing green dragons. It is in many Namco video game compilations for many systems.ĭig Dug is a maze video game.
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It prompted a long series of sequels and spin-offs, including the Mr. During the golden age of arcade video games, it was globally successful, including as the second highest-grossing arcade game of 1982 in Japan. Upon release, Dig Dug was well received by critics for its addictive gameplay, cute characters, and strategy. Namco heavily marketed it as a "strategic digging game". Music was composed by Yuriko Keino, including the character movement jingle at executives' request, as her first Namco game. It was programmed for the Namco Galaga arcade board by Shouichi Fukatani, who worked on many of Namco's earlier arcade games, along with Toshio Sakai. The player controls Dig Dug to defeat all enemies per stage, by either inflating them to bursting or crushing them underneath rocks.ĭig Dug was planned and designed by Masahisa Ikegami, with help from Galaga creator Shigeru Yokoyama. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Dig Dug is a maze arcade game developed by Namco in 1981 and released in 1982, distributed in North America by Atari, Inc. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.


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