Driller series, Hori is known as the "Hero of the Dig Dug Incident". He is additionally featured in an unlockable gallery of Mr.
Driller Drill Spirits, where he is also a playable character. Many American gamers learned of his real name via the Nintendo DS game Mr. His name is a pun on the Japanese phrase "Horitai zo" (掘りたいぞ) or "I want to dig!" (掘り = dig, たい = want, ぞ = !) – a similar pun might be rendered in English as "Will Dig" or "Wanda (Want To) Dig". He is also the ex-husband of Toby "Kissy" Masuyo, the heroine of Baraduke. ProtagonistĪlthough Namco has officially given the character of the original Dig Dug the name Dig Dug, in other games where he makes an appearance, the protagonist goes by the name Taizo Hori (in Japanese order, HORI Taizo), and is the father of Susumu Hori, the main character in the Mr. Strangely, a couple Pookas and Fygars also appear, but they don't have a tunnel to be placed in, so they are just overlaid onto the dirt. No tunnels are drawn, save for the one that goes from the top-center to center. There is no way to kill it, but The Atari version corrects this problem. When the round starts, a Pooka will be placed directly on top of where the player starts, and will kill Dig Dug instantly. In the coin-operated version the game will end on round 256 (round 0), since the board is essentially an unplayable kill screen. A round is completed successfully when the last monster is dispatched or succeeds in fleeing. In successive rounds more monsters appear on each screen, and they move quicker. After every fourth round, the color of the dirt will alternate (as seen in this article's screenshot graphic). The round numbers are represented by flowers in the top right of the screen, and each new round is noted at the beginning of each round.
Attaining the next level of play will then remain impossible, but the glitch can be resolved by forcing a rock to drop.
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If the player should drop a rock on a foe at the same time he pumps it to death, a glitch will occur whereupon all enemies will promptly disappear, but the game will not progress and the player will be free to dig through all dirt. In the original arcade version, the most points attainable from a single bonus item is 8000 from the pineapple, which appears in round 18 and every round thereafter. These items consists of various fruits and vegetables, as well as the flagship from the Namco game Galaxian, and appear even if either of the dropped rocks fails to crush any enemies. The act of mining is itself worth points - giving 10 points for each block mined, so some players will do as much of it as possible while the threat from the remaining monsters is minimal.Īfter the player drops two rocks, a bonus item appears at the center of the screen, awarding points if the player can collect it before it disappears. The next two add 1500 points each, and any after that, add 2000. If one enemy is killed by the rock, it is worth 1000 points. Extra points are also awarded for dropping rocks on enemies in order to eliminate them rather than inflating them. Additionally, Fygars are worth double points if exploded horizontally, since they can only breathe fire horizontally in the direction they are facing. More points will be awarded for exploding an enemy further down in the dirt (the levels are color-coded).
The last enemy in a round will try to escape off the top left of the screen. The monsters normally crawl through the tunnels in the dirt but can turn into ghostly eyes and travel slowly through the dirt. The player can also pass through the enemy while it is deflating. A partially inflated monster will deflate and recover after a few seconds, but half-inflating is a useful way to stun an enemy for a few moments, especially to make sure it remains in the path of a falling rock. It takes four (three in some versions) 'pumps' with the player's action button to inflate a monster until it pops. Dig Dug will be killed if he is caught by either a Pooka or a Fygar, burned by a Fygar's fire, or crushed by a rock. The player's character is the eponymous Dig Dug, dressed in white and blue and able to dig tunnels through dirt. There are two kinds of enemies in the game: "Pookas" (a race of cute round red monsters, said to be modeled after tomatoes, that wear yellow goggles) and "Fygars" (a race of green dragons that can breathe fire while their wings flash). The objective of Dig Dug is to eliminate underground-dwelling monsters by inflating them with an air pump until they explode, or by dropping rocks on them.
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