Atari Dig Dug Commercial

[thedesignhighschool]

Dig Dug is on a collision course with wackiness!

[EMaster2006]

Wow, I could just imagine the production for this commercial and what kind of hardships the film crew had to go through to make this more than 2 minutes.

[naMhtaeD]

my right ear didn't like this very much

[jackwwalsh]

I remember seeing this ad in the movie theaters, back when they showed atari commercials on 35mm. I think it was when I went to see Superman III, circa 1983. Either that or Search For Spock.

[divinedvon]

This is the longest commercial i've ever seen

[WhiteTriceratops]

Glory to Mr.Hori.

[TheFinlandnator]

Dick duck.

[RedLaserProductions]

I was born in the 1990s and thats not fair how the commercials back then WERE SO EPIC!!!

[SpeakMyMind500]

video game commercial arent like how they used to be.

[mfuji02]

fuck atari was great god miss those days

[jah2625]

at first i thought the title said anti drug commercial...or is it lol

[Morahman7vnNo2]

You gotta DIG that Mullet on that Japanese Scientist!

[MorfGworfmim]

I like the commercial more than the game...

[lllllllRobot]

My dad has one of those cars. That's an MG, isn't it?

[1985SJW]

@lllllllRobot yeah its an MG B

[theultrapixel]

wait... what did Adolf say?

[SuperMarkerComicBro]

Dig Dug is one of my favorite old video games, which is why I downloaded it of the Virtual Console.

However, Super Mario Galaxy can still crush this game and eat it for desert.

[technoshock11]

DIG DUG! Dig it dig it, Dig Dug

DIG DUG! Dig it dig it, Dig Dug

They just don't make commercials like this anymore.

[jibberldd5]

dig dug is namco. not atari.

[terracottapie]

@jibberldd5 It was a Namco arcade game that was licensed by Atari to port to their home consoles.

[MrSQUETCH]

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[MrSQUETCH]

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[MrSQUETCH]

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[MoxieChan]

when was stereo invented?

[WebVMan]

Man, I have NEVER seen this commercial before!

[qttroassi]

was that Barbara Hale ?

[rbrbran277]

Who does a 2 and a half minute spot?

[pbloo574]

@rbrbran277 Atari

[KibbyFan]

thats jeff daniels moron

[Dogmeatious300]

was that Jeff Bridges in the car?!?!?!?

[zentotoro]

No wonder the north american video game market crashed............

[zaphraud]

lol this is our mideast oil policy

[SouthwesternEagle]

This is one of the longest commercials I have ever seen from the 1980s that is not an infomercial. Looks like it had a high budget too.

[chrisdaco22]

This was one of the commercials they used to run at movie theaters before the previews started.

[DillonHammons]

uh huh  0_o

[TheLoadingScreenz]

They would never make a commercial like this today. xD

[pastorrtom]

Hey, it's Jeff Bridges at 1:22 :O

[WhereThereDude]

WHAT DA FUCK ?

[NotQuarex]

SCIENTISTS GOING ZONKERS

[EnglishTurtle]

When I saw the title of the video, I accidently thought it said

"anti drug commercial"

[pav777tube]

This played in theaters durings ads and trailers

[phodder]

apparently they didn't need a left channel back in the 70's and 80's

[grogtgs]

this is a long commerical

[lueck183]

@grogtgs yes the commercial is costier than the game and the broadcast minute is more expansive today

[hesteaeble]

Dick Duck

[Blogapult]

"Scientists going Zonkers"? More like the Atari Marketing Team.

[catclaw357]

lol 0:34 sounds like a 1950's horror movie

[patti985]

@primemover17 dig dug was giving a wake up call to the americans

[whattheheck1000]

atari was loaded in the 1981-1983 period

[HitlerOnTheRoof]

:40 Classic.

[Szederp]

Oh my fucking God just think of the budget for this commercial! They HAD money....

[OutlawTomFantastic]

So cheezy.

[Flyingcatfly]

all the atari commercials have shitty songs

[brtshstel]

I love this game. I even made my own Dig Dug Shirt

[LoserAtTutorials]

Moral of the story: Dig Dug is communist. (Americans happy when it was defeated?)

[elglare]

Super increible!!!! Dig Dug is the man!!!!

[KaslarProductions]

When the 80 attacks with horrible doowop theme music! In theaters now

[SiriusWolfStudios]

Dig dug has a song too?

yay!

is this really the comercial?

[rexfurry]

I:35 Scientists going (Zonkers?)

[oofoe]

This is how you make a fucking commercial. It drove me zonkers.

[Neville6000]

A commercial for an arcade game...interesting. Don't see this kind of thing anymore.

[Binkysuperstar]

Wow. The Dig Dug Dance. Maybe Dig Dug was behind the damage...OR IS HE?!

[r24Sorrow]

brings me back to the early 80's, N HOPE IT STAYS BACK THERE!!!!

[IIIIdepechemodeIIII]

@r24Sorrow agreed indeed. give me berzerk, atari frogger, and reagan with duran , depeche, and judas priest.

[fuzzywzhe]

@r24Sorrow The 80's only seems good because the decade before it was the worst decade in recorded history.

[AdlerSchwadron]

@fuzzywzhe dude, and whats with the decades after it? :>

[megamarsvin]

@fuzzywzhe I thought that was the other way around?

[zuriku]

RACIST

[jared4wally]

i think i have those Atari dig dud at my home.

[putnamskater]

ok dig dug is the shit. but this comercial is just shit.

[agentjoeblack]

I second that.

[LatexWizard]

I shit you guys not, I hooked up my Atari 7800 the other day, and was playing Dig Dug. This game was one of my faves from when I was a kid. I played it on X-Box arcade but it wasn't the same. lol You gotta have that joystick.

[903harman]

>.> ps3 you can use the joystick.

[Neville6000]

You can buy a Street Fighter II joystick, plug it in, and play it 'till your eye pop out, just shop around.

[insanityuponlife666]

WTF?!?!?!

sweet!!!

does someone know a website wher I could play this game???

[TboneWillsone]

hahahaha epic.

They put so much work into this.

:D

win

[owensed01]

wow this is one of the most epic game comercial in history

[DAHrocks]

exactly me 2

[Sasuke006]

lol this is like the only atar game i played cause it was like on a seperate game thing i didnt have atari.

[Icemangqx]

Commercials are only a little over 2 minutes. How were they able to get this aired?

[giantzombiechild]

dig dug the infamus masked muderer! the only clue to know when hes coming is that music! then before you even realise whats goin on POP there go your intestines!

[OrangeColita]

still, it served to unify the once warring nations of pooka and fygar

[LSalazar8]

...lol

[crazyzach5]

This proves that dig dug is EVIL!!!! HE KILLS INNOCENT CREATURES BY INFLATED THEM WITH A BICYCLE PUMP UNTIL THEY EXPLODE!!!!!!!!! BAD ASS!

[hedzred]

This was a great game and a great commercial! Totally 80's!

Rock ON!

[Physhi]

Nuts. Actual Japanese. Really nuts.

[rasmusxp]

At the time where great video game commercials were made, just watch the Australian version of the snes commercial.

[Pwnpitar]

"SCIENTISTS GOING ZONKERS!"

lol

XP

[sharall]

hahah....i miss 80's commercials...so nostalgic lololol.

[Travtoodope]

Feaking long

[Tungzout]

I hope this wasn't an ad durring the Super bowl of that time! LOL!

Imagine the bill for that! LoL!

I'd still hate to see the bill for airing this lengthy ad durring any Prime time show back in the day (or even Saturday morning cartoons!)

[dex556]

I played this on my Commodore 64 in the 80s. Now I play it on my X-Box 360. It's good to know that I've come far in life.

[rockolutheran]

lol that japanese guy was hilarious

[notyoursavior78]

Wow what a long commericial. This was a great game though.

[rich1980]

it does look like him though lol

[DarkApple47]

I miss the days when commercials were 2:25 long

[CrazyDawgy]

I wonder... could my Dig Dug machine be in this vid? O.o

[deliverence007]

is that a young Harrison Ford in the yellow car?

[CaptMARNEY]

I remember getting my ass handed to me playing this game as a kid. It's pretty awesome.

[brickman409]

WTF??????

[haloboy217]

that was a waste of my time

[Zeldaartist]

oh wow dig dug was one of my fav games..but i used to play the NES version..0.o..

[markusthut]

dig dug rocks!!!!

[vidviewer401]

That's cute:)

[kellygene45]

wow, seriously! That was REALLY involved for a video game commercial.  I got confused.

[ExceededlyJosh]

ha i kno

[Snoutmasta]

Zonkers, huh?

[recon500]

1:46 was that the telephone both from Bill and Ted?

[Anonferiest]

Holy shit awesome.

[TigerYoshiki]

"WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?"

Best part of the video. XD

Nice music but the Zelda alttp commercial is more classic.

[rane4ever]

goodthing i wasnt born at that time. PsP!!

[theTF2sniper]

atari is better than ur fucke up psp no atari means no psp!

[rane4ever]

Old man. go ahead, play your atari forever.

[Mysterious0Bob]

Old man? His spelling clearly indicates that he is less than ten years old. And his username clearly indicates he likes modern games.

[rane4ever]

i dont care. im not that old to say atari was the best. i didnt get a chance to play it coz im not an old geek like you.

[pascalbg]

That is weird.

[kirbyhero256]

Incredible. I have never ever seen a commercial like this. So Pac-Man wasn't the only Namco franchise to get a pop song made for it in America, it seems.

[RyonAnthony]

this has to be the only video game commerical back then that had a full blown song, that was extremely catchy.

[BlueFlashProductions]

What about Centipede? That commercial was awesome too.

[RyonAnthony]

blueflashprod.

your right! i just looked at it and it had a awesome song! its freakin awesome as well!

[BlueFlashProductions]

I watched that a year ago, and still remember that song. I remember how funny and creepy it was, too.

[reggiebush10895JKJK]

I remember this game. kickass.

[nwajoe]

Having known a few arcade owners in my day, I can just imagine their response when some kid ran up to them and demanded they buy a 1500 dollar arcade machine because a commercial said so. "Yeah, yeah, go play what I got and keep your mouth shut."

[opusguru]

this is awesome.. thank you so much for finding this..

[crazyzach5]

lol best classic arcade game EVER!!

[finzgar420]

can you dig it? Dig dug!

[saigokun]

great commercial that plays a good homage to old movies.

[natemarveldude]

"Scientists Going Zonkers" Lol

[ghosty121]

ALL i saw was a car was moving up and down and teens where in in =)

[JAXJAK218]

ghosty you are a gay horny faggot!! =)

[ghosty121]

I am horny but not a faggot =)

[bubbs0643]

We're going underground to do the dig dug dance!

[jonah1976]

Nice. Too bad the audio is not synchronized. -_-

[notyoursavior78]

haha this game is awesome, I had no idea it had like the longest advert for a Atari game ever.

[Bonewood47]

longst advert ever

[zaphraud]

what about level 256?

"The only way to win, is not to play the game"

[oiromaha]

I could go for some Crush right now! Great sodapop!

[isaacallin]

lmao!!! WTF!!!!

[Akhiloth]

This is so goddamn epic.

[sharp93]

cool whens this game come out.lol jk,i got this game on my phone

[ST3INERGER]

COOOL !

[lostflix]

Awesome, Totally Awesome! I have always loved this game and had NO IDEA there was a commercial created for it! Great to watch!

[dj2bklyn]

that intro was funny as hell and the rest was crazy

[Diskoboy1974]

I remember this! It played in US theaters, summer of 1982. This was a trailer that ran before E.T. and Poltergeist.

[eightbithero]

I even saw ET in theaters.  I only wish I was old enough at the time to remember this.

[ztksisak]

Take look at the guy on lover's lane at 1:21 ... could that be Jeff Bridges????

[klimax69]

or eddie vedder, jejeje, yes he's jeff bridges

[ztksisak]

Take look at the guy on lover's lane at 1:21 ... could that be Jeff Bridges????

[ScottHatesAll]

asshole dig dugs grate

[Lihapullamies]

atari? shouldnt it be namco?

[19Bigfoot85]

God I love that game!!!

[Kassad86]

WHERE ARE YOU WOMEN NOW?

[misled775]

They should remake this for xbox 360/Wii.

[LCDragonrats]

they did on xbox 360

[misled775]

No, I meant like a whole new game.

Not a fixed up arcade game.

[AtheistAaron]

This commercial is officially full of Awesome.

[zguy135]

damn all that effort makes the Gears of War commerical look like a cheap piece of shit...guess cause nowadays games sell themseves instead of needing flashy advertiseing.

[d3p3ch3mod3]

peter jackson should do a trilogy version of this. who the hell makes 2 and a half minute commercials?

p.s. i wasn't very impressed by this game either, i prefer galaxian

[jeffw1267]

I thought this game was great. And the best part was that it kept getting harder, so you couldn't master it.

I have a computer version now that will let me start on level 99. That's 9 big flowers and 9 small ones up on the top. Basically I get killed in about 3 seconds at level 99.

[bob8972]

long commercial

[l0lwhut]

Dig Dug 2 was a better game.

[eyeh8cbs]

Finally after 25 years of hearing about this I can finally see it! I've got a 35mm trailer advertising Intellivision games. Anyone who advocates advertising in movie theaters should be burned at the stake though.

[tachoX2]

Nice ad. I remember playing this game very well...

[pkmmo]

oh shit my father remembers tha tv commercial

[knives7777777]

WTF lol

[Lrdvltr]

lol

[doronDeutsch]

Hi - check this version of colored "A trip to the moon" set to new music and live performance, giving the old footage new meaning:

watch?v=vfwvnS3QPUU

[BlackPhoenicx]

SCIENTIST GOING ZONKERS

[swordfighter3]

very old game but one of my most favorited aracade games of all time!