Dig Dug (Atari 1987)

[bigfellabuzz]

You suck!!!

[Imaytper]

i found this game just today for my atari

[TheGiftofvision]

did anybody else dig the whole screen before killing the monsters? :-|

[vigilante5150]

wow! i feel guilty i forgot bout dig dug...like when you can't remember a long lost lover's last name haha

[RoyMayorga1]

best game ever....badly addicted to this one when it came out

[mandy26lez]

dig dug is overrated!

[prodos8]

The carts themselves could have a pokey or cost reduced 'gumby' chip -- that was never made btw -- improve the sound. Only a few titles like Commando and Ballblazer had the pokey chip on the cart. The decision to leave the pokey off of the motherboard happened before the Tramiel's took over. It was basically they just ran out of room on the mother board. Too bad tough.

[TripleXero]

Amazes me how this looks so much like the original, but Pacman looks like shit

[prodos8]

@TripleXero  Its the 7800 version which is vastly superior to the 2600 graphics you are thinking of.

[EcoPanorAmico]

i was very nice playere in it :))

[ermanay11]

Fun huh...don't you know this asshole kills cute harmless creatures!They don't evan wanna fight they just try to defend their homes from bloddy stranger!They havig the worst dead...dead buy a pump!Their only hope is fire spitters but they faild!After many years he dedices to destroy yes destroy their islands!!What a Devil comes from deeps of hell!!

[noideac]

nice port

[KEONrca]

:D i loved that so much!

that was the best time of my life !!!

[luv6pup]

cool!

[gigaty123]

i got a 7200 in my room, and it works fine. i play this as much as i can, but my controllers fucked up. you have to push down as hard as you can to make the input work :( aw well, ill just get a genisis controller XD love this game

[skelziex]

hahaha! i fav game when i was kid!!

got pc version for this game?

[luvmelikeudo714]

I love the arcade version, its my favorite namco game!

[Pacfan98]

I might be getting this soon!

[MrSaturn33]

The famicom version is actually closer.

[DaRockFlipper]

I was the coolest kid in my class cuz of this game! ALL the kids come to my house to play it when i was 10 yr old lol!

[chainbluelightning1]

Dig Dug shows that a simple concept can be creative as hell. Just burrow out your tunnels, crush the creatures, and inflate the ones who avoid the boulders. Great game! Makes me miss the 80's even more.

[TheRiggyRiggs]

A very fun game.

[ducksmasher09]

I love that game.

It was so fun. :)

[phanteon198]

i love this game when i little boy

[joefromseventyone]

DONKEY KONG on the Coleco Vision was like a little slice of Heaven on earth. What a classic those videos are. The blast from the past is awesome. Nothing like 4 bit graphics and a bulky controller to get you back into the 1980's!!

[SpiritualAwakenings]

This and Donkey Kong were my favorite arcade games.

[mintydog06]

lol hilarious! brilliant game.

[Mekkipatsi]

I always loved the music of this game.. :D

[nocturnaldusk]

Its a simple check on WIKIPEDIA guys,it has the system specs for the 7800.Thanx for posting videos Umma6umma!

[nocturnaldusk]

When Jack Tramiel took over Atari ,he declined to give the 7800 the superior pokey chip,to cut costs.They opted to use the 2600 tia chip instead.People assume just because the 7800 is the successor to the 2600,it has better sound,which it doesnt.Some 7800 games sound amazing,because the pokey chip was added IN THE CARTRIDGE itself.

[Umma6umma]

Wow, that's an interesting tid-bit, thanks for explaining it. I was wondering how the heck your could get the Dig-Dug music using the 2-channel 2600 hardware. The answer is in the cartridge!

[gdement]

This game doesn't have a sound chip in the cartridge. It uses the standard internal sound.

[OldMusicOnVinyl1]

@Umma6umma Because both the 7800 and the 2600 share the same sound chips, the 2600 version of Dig Dug sounds EXACTLY the same as the 7800 version. That means that the 7800 is basically the 2600 version with better graphics.

[ApolloBoy]

Actually, the real reason why the 7800 has no POKEY is because there was no room on the motherboard for a POKEY. Keep in mind the 7800 was designed around mid to late 1983, well before the Tramiel takeover.

[nocturnaldusk]

Yes,you're correct ApolloBoy there was 2 reasons to not include the pokey chip on the 7800 motherboard,to cut costs,and there was no room on the motherboard, to put it,which I forgot to mention.If you ask me ,the second reason sounds like a cop out.A pokey would have only taken up what?a 2 inch square or so of motherboard space?Yes,anyway those were the reasons why.

[ApolloBoy]

If you've ever seen a 7800 motherboard, it's quite cramped and there's very little space for anything else, let alone a POKEY chip. General Computer (the designers of the 7800) actually planned to create a low-cost sound chip for cartridges that would be a substitute for the POKEY, but it never saw the light of day.

[nocturnaldusk]

The 7800 sound in most games was not up to par.The 7800 used the same sound hardware as the 2600.Other than that,the 7800 is still a pretty good system,especially its arcade ports.

[Umma6umma]

I find it hard to believe that the 7800 had the same sound hardware as the 2600. The 2600 only had 2 sound channels!

[nocturnaldusk]

The 7800 has only 2 channels as well.Like i posted,the 7800 uses the 2600 t.i.a sound chip,so obviously,the 7800 has 2 channels as well

[PAABS2000]

i gotta double check on that, im with UMME on this. how can the 7800 have same sound as the 2600, no sense, BUT you might be right, i dunno

[m1omg]

7800 can use the chip on the cartridge, usually POKEY or even multiple POKEYs

[illegalsmilereturns]

super fav. peace

[nworaven66]

FANTASTIC legendary game

[Umma6umma]

It's one of my favourites: pretty nice character detail and animation in the graphics, but more importantly, great gameplay concepts that start simply and get more and more complex.

A classic.

[Pacfan98]

@Umma6umma

I just got this on cart. it's awesome!

[1pixie]

yay! this is the one we had!

[ZEROEVILDARKCOOL]

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[ZEROEVILDARKCOOL]

ITS LIKE A SHITTY VERSION OF THE