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Cute Is Evil: The Pookas and Fygars are rather adorable.Color-Coded Multiplayer: In Arrangement, the two Taizos are colored white/blue and yellow/white respectively.The spheres used to clear Cosmos in Cosmo Gang the Puzzle also appear in early levels, serving as a special type of boulder (including playing the same sound effects).

#DIG DUG INFLATION SERIES#

The Cameo: In the original Arrangement, Cosmos from Namco's Cosmo Gang series appear as enemies in the Moon levels.In some home computer ports, the breath fires instantly with no cooldown or charge time. Breath Weapon: Fygars have a fire breath, which is signaled by them flashing their red wings.Attract Mode: It was one of the earliest arcade games to include a 'demo sound' feature in which (some of) the game's sound effects can be heard during the gameplay demo, although without the music.Armless Biped: Most artwork depicts the Fygars having visible arms which are just hidden in-game by the simple graphics, but they have occasionally been officially depicted as not having arms, such as in the Namco Museum Battle Collection edition of Arrangement.Action Bomb: One of the enemy varieties in the original Arrangement is a red robot that explodes when burst, taking any other enemy with it.Has nothing to do with Diglett or Dugtrio. The characters are respectively voiced by Toshio Furukawa (Taizo), Yuko Mizutani (Toby), and Chisa Yokoyama (Hiromi). His ex-wife, Toby 'Kissy' Masuyo from Baraduke (who is teamed up with Burning Force's Hiromi Tengenji), is also playable in the same game, still apparently holding a grudge against Taizo. Taizo Hori himself appears in the turn-based strategy RPG Namco × Capcom, his backstory portraying him as a retired soldier who now works as a Digger. Taizo himself appears in two ShiftyLook properties, Namco High and Mappy, oddly still being referred to as Dig Dug. The enemies can turn into ghosts and slowly work their way through the dirt to close in on you.Ī few sequels have been released ( Dig Dug II, the PC-only Dig Dug Deeper, Dig Dug: Digging Strike, and Dig Dug Online) as well as a spinoff series in Mr.

Throughout each level, you'll sometimes come across vegetables that will boost your score. The further down you are when you kill one, the more points you'll receive.

There are two types of foes: Pookas, somewhat harmless round things that bounce around and go about their business, and Fygars, dangerous dragons that can breathe fire. You can also dig out the dirt beneath buried rocks to drop them on enemies. The objective of the game is for your player (initially just named 'Dig Dug', but later changed to Taizo Hori) to dig underground and eliminate all of the monsters on each stage using a special pressure pump to inflate them to bursting. Dig Dug is a Digging Game by Namco, first released as an Arcade Game in 1982.

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