Fun Fact - the Intellivision version was originally written by Atarisoft, but not completed by the time the video game crash shut them down. INTV bought the rights to their old games library including the incomplete Dig Dug. The programmer at INTV completed the game, and discovered there was just enough spare memory on the cartridge ROM to stick in a secret game. He had rewritten Tron Deadly Discs to use various graphics from Burgertime, making the characters hot dogs. That game is called Deadly Dogs! and it's activated by pushing certain numbers on both controller keypads and hit the reset button.
Some fun facts here: The Dig Dug characters name is Taizo Hori and his son Susumu Hori is in a spinoff game called Mr. Driller which was originally to be known as Dig Dug 3 at one point. Dig Dug actually takes place within Namco's VERY large in-canon game universe known as U.G.S.F. (United Galaxy Space Force) which you may know from Namco's Galaxian 3 and Starblade series. Taizo Hori is part of the UGSF team that surveys planets for habitable locations, and Taizo Hori was sent to the planet in Dig Dug to eradicate the alien pests that ruled the underground world. Also, Taizo Hori's ex-wife was the main character in yet another Namco game called Baraduke (Also a part of the UGSF timeline). Her name is Toby "Kissy" Masuyo, and one of their sons is Susumu from Mr. Driller. (Yeah, this gets kinda deep...get it? DEEP! Cause he's digging really deep...uhh yeah. Anyways... Btw Mark, if you are interested in more of this Namco UGSF timeline and want to see what games are in what place within this timeline, please check here! You'll find it very interesting! (And yes, this is 100% official and created by Namco, although some games were added to the timeline retroactively.) Enjoy! ^.=.^ ugsf-series.com/en/
ah the memories, I used to play this game after school and I was very happy when my mother bought it for me at Christmas for my atari 2600 I do not know why but the music of this game was always my favorite even today at my 40s when I hear it it makes me feel very happy, memories of when the children were children and could go out without fear of something bad happening to them. That's why I love your videos, thanks for sharing.
What surprises me most is that the Colecovision, Sord M5 and MSX versions are all entirely different and even the TI and Colecovision versions have different graphics although coming from the same company - despite these computers all having the same graphics chip, the TMS9918 (or a derivative thereof), and except for the TI they also all had the same CPU.
The Atari 2600 is pretty great, even the background has various colors, the developers could have put just one single color on each stage or even on the entire game but nope! they did it the right way.
It's got an awesome homebrew scene too. Check out Atariage.com. also, for a taste of what the homebrew guys have been able to do see Rikki and Vikki. Additional bonus: it plays 2600 games too.
You'd have expected the ZX Spectrum to get a port of Dig Dug, but no dice. Perhaps the C64 version was due to the format having a presence in the United States that the Spectrum didn't have. I guess the MSX version gives some indication of what a Spectrum Port may have been like, though the sound would have been much, much worse.
I had absolutly no idea, none what so ever that there wrere so many diffirent Dig Dug versions. This is great research, that's awesome. For me I love your videos. Thanks so much and im subscribing now.
The port for Atari 8-bit computers was quite good, and completely different from the Atari 5200 version for a change. I'm a little sad that you didn't cover it, but it was good to see the other versions of this game.
Grew up on the (pirated) Apple ii port and it was simply awesome because it actually had the background music. Sound took cpu cycles, and on a 1 MHz 6502 processor background music was a treat. This is one of those things where you had to experience it st the time, and loved it playing on a monochrome green screen 🙂
Dig Dug and Doom protagonists are usually referred to similarly as their game names (though Doom's is Doomguy). In Mr. Driller series and Namco × Capcom, Dig Dug is named Taizo Hori; however, some of the most recent Mr. Driller games called him "Hero of the Dig Dug/South Island Incident", but in the PC remake Dig Dug Deeper, he went back to being called Dig Dug again. For Doomguy, his version in the Doom novels roughly based on the classic games gave the marine the name of Flynn Taggart. This name was re-used in the famous Call of Duty series, where the main character was just called "Taggart" for short. In the Doom movie, the name of the protagonist is John Grimm, nicknamed Reaper. Japanese game company Universal (now Aruze) later modeled Mr. Do! after Dig Dug, but with some differences. Both Dig Dug and Mr. Do! series earned some sequels, which you RetroCore might want to see if there are enough ports for them, too. Satoshi Tajiri demonstrated the first 4 Mr. Do! games. There's also Neo Mr. Do! for Neo-Geo.
Dig Dug is one of my favorite Namco arcade games, with it being both cute & challenging. I had the Atari 2600 & 5200 versions, as well as the Namco Collection vol. 3 for the PlayStation.
The Atari 800 had two different versions. One that was released in 1982 that had more simplistic characters and garish colors. The 1983 version is exactly like the Atari 5200 port.
It's also released for the Atari 8-bit computers. Like most games that are ported to the ill-fated 5200, Dig Dug on the Atari 8-bit computers is the same as the 5200.
These games have the magic of the arcade like no others. Played a lot to the Famicom port, an excellent one like Pacman or Galaga, for example. The Gameboy one is very similar to the Mr.Do port, with scroll
Did Namco actually had that many arcade to Famicom ports that could be considered bad? To me, all of their early arcade hits were spot on on the Famicom. Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Galaxian and Galaga, Battle City, Mappy - all done very nicely, on par with Nintendo's own games.
Pacland is probably the worst. I do think that Namco could have done better with a few of there arcade to Famicom ports. maybe saying most were awful wasn't strictly right.
I don't think the C64 version is that bad, but I have to admit I play it on the emulator set to NTSC rather than on my real C64 wich is a PAL machine. For extra speed and slightly less squashed graphics. I think it's fair since this version was made in NTSC land and not with PAL in mind.
X68000 looks like a perfect port, only the sound was bit less inferior, but plays good PSP version has the original (can arrange the screen for better play) GC,PS2 and xbox is the same from arcade(Namco museum 50th anniversary) GBA has a version too in Namco museum, has a poor sound (hardware)
Yes, really has 2 versions: 1st version, from Namco Museum, developed by Mass media, simulation of arcade games, sound quality regular 2nd version, from Namco Museum 50th anniversary, developed by Digital Eclipse, 99% perfect port, sound quality better (near perfection), good control and can play in horizontal or vertical screen
Dig Dug, a great arcade game at the time which I still consider pretty fun! Now I wish the ColecoVision port was finished because it probably been very fun. I do believe Atari thought it was better than the Atari 5200 port which doesn't look too bad. But looked worse by comparison to them so yeah that could of been cool to see it finished. Also with the speed problem with one of the ports, I'm sure that it wasn't supposed to run that fast because I watched another video from another channel that compared Dig Dug and it ran fast but not as fast as it went for you, what I believe it could of been is just a emulation issue because I know 4 MHz isn't the fastest in the world so maybe a emulation issue, I don't know but something went wrong there though. Anyway, good video!
I think part of the reason the Apple ][ version sounds and plays the way it does is because it takes all the CPU to drive the beeper, hence why it stutters the way it does, it's switching between the sound and updating the screen. If I'm not mistaken, the 48K ZX Spectrum was the same way. Most Speccy games, if they had music at all, had it only on the title screen. Had there been a Speccy port, it probably would've sounded like this, but maybe a bit faster due to having a faster CPU: Apple ][ having a 1.023 MHz 6502 vs the ZX Spectrum's 3.5 MHz Z80. Surely that'd be enough grunt to drive both the game and the sound while still running at a decent speed.
C64 version is slow and squashed because you're playing the NTSC version in PAL mode. Also, the "MS-DOS" port was a PC port (it didn't use dos, you were playing the pirated crack). In the PC port, keypad "5" stops you moving (look at an old IBM PC keyboard to understand why).
The arcade's vertical resolution (admittedly just a screen on its side) is just something you don't get. Every version either has a reduced playfield or has to scroll.
Funny trivia: His real name is "Taizō Hori", and was once married to Toby "Kissy" Masuyo of later arcade game "Baraduke" (apparently, it is official Namco canon that they divorced). Amongst their kids during marraige were Susumu and Ataru Hori and Taiyo Toby from thr "Mr. Driller" series. Vidyagaems is wierd, mate. Also, like many vertical games featured on the six-disc Namco Museum series (or five for at least those of us in North America) for PS1, this has the option of enabling TATE mode to avoid the vertical scrolling.
Well, chalk the whole thing about Hori, Masuyo, and their kids to the following: Mr. Driller (actually mentions Taizou is his dad, and later games even mention the same about their siblings), Namco X Capcom (yes, took me a while to learn it was pronounced "cross".. titles are weird.), story has both Hori and Masuyo, and it gives insight as to why the latter no longer likes the former. Seriously wish licensing BS didn't keep the game Japan-Exclusive..
Nah, for games like the Mr. Driller series and "Dig-Dug: Digging Strike" (ha, i c wut u did thar, Namco!), it's all really from just reading the instructions. I didn't know the whole deal about Masuyo and Hori until reading up a walkthrough of NxC while watching someone's playthrough vids of it. I do think NxC does provide some backstory info on characters in an extras gallery of some sort.
Ahh okay, I should have looked further down the comments. I mentioned this as well but also added that info is readily available over at Namco's UGSF timeline website as this game falls within that canon that Namco has created. ugsf-series.com/en/ Check my comment towards the top as I may have added even MORE information than what is written here! ^.=.^
Is it me, or games with cute concepts have very dark undertones. Case in point, pumping these enemies full of air (which looks to be painful by the way) until they burst. Either way, it's best not to take this seriously.
No, it's not just you. Take Pokemon for example (something I just can't relate to). They capture the poor creatures, make them live in a tinny ball the force them to fight other creatures. The evil bastards! 😋
Were you unable to get the Sharp X1 port working due to lack of finding an X1 emulator or lack of the tape image or some other reason? I managed to get it working with MAME and the x1 driver, it just loads the tape and makes horrible noises for 3 minutes automatically (without having to enter weird commands like some other computers). But it worked in the end.
No, I couldn't cover the Sharp X1 version because I couldn't find a working emulator. Some of the games on this video are running on real hardware whole others are emulated.
I feel the game boy version is ruined by the poor hitbox you get killed when enemies feel like they're too far away to have killed you but i do like the new mode added in
lol, Dig Dug, we had lot of fun playing this game back then with my brother and my cousins. Might have been the Apple II version though which apparently is not so good but we didn't even know, it was AGES ago and this game was sort of a private joke among us :D And actually I never played it again since but I should give it a more serious go now, I like these early arcade games. Also, thinking about it, this game should have been ported to the Game Gear, it would have been perfectly suited for Sega's handheld but a port better designed than the Game Boy one, with smaller sprites in order to keep the full area visible at any time and this + the color graphics, this could have been nice. If I'm not mistaken, Mappy, another Namco game, is pretty good on Game Gear.
The 2600 version looks surprisingly good, and the 7800's is pretty nice. Aside from X68000, N64, and PlayStation which are arcade-perfect, I'll pick the Famicom one.
I really dig Dig Dug for some reason. The end comparing all the screens is like Dig Dug overload :) Coincidentally I have the high score for Dig Dug at 12 trillion and 2 points verified by twin galaxies. Hey that would have worked in the 80s!
Great video Mark! You've included some very obscure Personal computers. Very nice. Do you think the '80s were blessed with choices for computers when compare with today?
I think it was cool that each system had its own look and sound. These days games basically look and sound the same no matter what platform they're on.
Yet again, no Spectrum or Amstrad version of this Namco game. though i think i would've rather have a Speccy version of Dig Dug 2.i do enjoy Dig Dug, but i find the sequel a little more appealing. anyways, i think that Game Boy version is the best because of that new mode that it has.
(before video) I love this game. One of my favorites from the arcade. :) 0:16 Twenty ports?? ... damn... lolz (twenty-one including the arcade) 2:00 I've gotten that far one time. Once. I spent six bucks in credits to get that far. I don't think anyone has beaten the high score on that machine since, unless of course, the machine was reset... 3:58 Yeah. I hear that. 8:00 :| Ew. Chunky. 8:56 I saw that. That's a really bad glitch... 11:18 Okay, this is way worse than Apple ][, graphically. :| 12:12 MS-DOS got this??? ...I've nothing to say. 13:28 For the Coleco, it looks great, but's with the flashing sprites? It looks...odd... o.o 15:02 Yeah, that's running too fast. Might be why the controls aren't working. 17:14 (looks up Casio PV-1000) Huh. Looks like a calculator screen. 19:54 Black boxes around characters reminds me of how games were developed for the Commodore Personal Electronic Transcoder, or PET, lolz 20:26 If there's one thing the N64 never did that well with, it was pixelated images like this. The GPU was a bit too powerful for something as rudimentary, but for a game like Dig Dug, it's not a bad thing, however, there are games from this era that are damn near unplayable with the GPU's shortcomings, such as the Rally-X series. (ugh) 21:16 Unnn... I could say so many things but this...this...is just a waste of tech. This is worse than playing a bad port of an arcade game on TIGER ELECTRONICS. Oh, wait... this was ported to those too..... :( I only ever played this in the arcade, and the Namco Museum ports. The GBA version of this game runs the N64 port, and it actually looks better because of the smaller screen. I used to be good at this game.
I never really got into Dig Dug. It was OK though. I remember playing it in the arcade. I had the 7800 version but the 2600 version is surprisingly good. There's Dig Dug Arrangement on some of the Namco compilations but I think the original is a better game. I've read that Mr Driller is actually a sequel? Much prefer that game.
Fun Fact - the Intellivision version was originally written by Atarisoft, but not completed by the time the video game crash shut them down. INTV bought the rights to their old games library including the incomplete Dig Dug. The programmer at INTV completed the game, and discovered there was just enough spare memory on the cartridge ROM to stick in a secret game. He had rewritten Tron Deadly Discs to use various graphics from Burgertime, making the characters hot dogs. That game is called Deadly Dogs! and it's activated by pushing certain numbers on both controller keypads and hit the reset button.
Wow, very cool secret. I wish I had know that when making this video.
Some fun facts here: The Dig Dug characters name is Taizo Hori and his son Susumu Hori is in a spinoff game called Mr. Driller which was originally to be known as Dig Dug 3 at one point.
Dig Dug actually takes place within Namco's VERY large in-canon game universe known as U.G.S.F. (United Galaxy Space Force) which you may know from Namco's Galaxian 3 and Starblade series. Taizo Hori is part of the UGSF team that surveys planets for habitable locations, and Taizo Hori was sent to the planet in Dig Dug to eradicate the alien pests that ruled the underground world.
Also, Taizo Hori's ex-wife was the main character in yet another Namco game called Baraduke (Also a part of the UGSF timeline). Her name is Toby "Kissy" Masuyo, and one of their sons is Susumu from Mr. Driller. (Yeah, this gets kinda deep...get it? DEEP! Cause he's digging really deep...uhh yeah. Anyways...
Btw Mark, if you are interested in more of this Namco UGSF timeline and want to see what games are in what place within this timeline, please check here! You'll find it very interesting! (And yes, this is 100% official and created by Namco, although some games were added to the timeline retroactively.) Enjoy! ^.=.^
ugsf-series.com/en/
Very informative. I shall look into this timeline myself.
ah the memories, I used to play this game after school and I was very happy when my mother bought it for me at Christmas for my atari 2600
I do not know why but the music of this game was always my favorite even today at my 40s when I hear it it makes me feel very happy, memories of when the children were children and could go out without fear of something bad happening to them.
That's why I love your videos, thanks for sharing.
I'm also in my 40 's now so I can imagine how cool it would have been having the 2600 version back in the day.
What surprises me most is that the Colecovision, Sord M5 and MSX versions are all entirely different and even the TI and Colecovision versions have different graphics although coming from the same company - despite these computers all having the same graphics chip, the TMS9918 (or a derivative thereof), and except for the TI they also all had the same CPU.
The Atari 2600 is pretty great, even the background has various colors, the developers could have put just one single color on each stage or even on the entire game but nope! they did it the right way.
It's a very solid port
2600 is bad.
CV 1111111!!!!!:D
@@jennysaenz2278 no it's not actually, the game play is spot on, great port
The more footage I see of the 7800, the more I'm convinced I would like it, sound issues aside.
It's got an awesome homebrew scene too. Check out Atariage.com. also, for a taste of what the homebrew guys have been able to do see Rikki and Vikki.
Additional bonus: it plays 2600 games too.
You'd have expected the ZX Spectrum to get a port of Dig Dug, but no dice. Perhaps the C64 version was due to the format having a presence in the United States that the Spectrum didn't have.
I guess the MSX version gives some indication of what a Spectrum Port may have been like, though the sound would have been much, much worse.
There’s also two Microsoft entertainment packs that had nothing but Namco games and the first Namco pack had Dig Dug. Great video!
That's right but I beleive they are emulated Arcade roms I beleive.
Dig Dug got ported to practically everything under the sun. It really is a fun game. :)
I had absolutly no idea, none what so ever that there wrere so many diffirent Dig Dug versions. This is great research, that's awesome. For me I love your videos. Thanks so much and im subscribing now.
Thanks for subscribing, Frosty Highway. I have to admit it surprised me too with the amount of ports I discovered.
Mark: Lets take a look at all those versions running side by side.
Me trying to watch with my phone: Damn it!
hehe, sorry man. If it makes you feel better it's just as crazy trying to watch them all on a 50" screen.
The port for Atari 8-bit computers was quite good, and completely different from the Atari 5200 version for a change. I'm a little sad that you didn't cover it, but it was good to see the other versions of this game.
I may have not known about it at the time.
Dig Dug is the best arcade game to have the name arcade stuck to it :D
Grew up on the (pirated) Apple ii port and it was simply awesome because it actually had the background music. Sound took cpu cycles, and on a 1 MHz 6502 processor background music was a treat. This is one of those things where you had to experience it st the time, and loved it playing on a monochrome green screen 🙂
I know what you mean. I used to love it when a game on my first computer, the Commodore Plus 4 had music.
Dig Dug and Doom protagonists are usually referred to similarly as their game names (though Doom's is Doomguy).
In Mr. Driller series and Namco × Capcom, Dig Dug is named Taizo Hori; however, some of the most recent Mr. Driller games called him "Hero of the Dig Dug/South Island Incident", but in the PC remake Dig Dug Deeper, he went back to being called Dig Dug again. For Doomguy, his version in the Doom novels roughly based on the classic games gave the marine the name of Flynn Taggart. This name was re-used in the famous Call of Duty series, where the main character was just called "Taggart" for short. In the Doom movie, the name of the protagonist is John Grimm, nicknamed Reaper.
Japanese game company Universal (now Aruze) later modeled Mr. Do! after Dig Dug, but with some differences.
Both Dig Dug and Mr. Do! series earned some sequels, which you RetroCore might want to see if there are enough ports for them, too. Satoshi Tajiri demonstrated the first 4 Mr. Do! games. There's also Neo Mr. Do! for Neo-Geo.
I was actually playing Mr. Do on the NEO Geo the other day for the upcoming show :)
Retro Core There's also Mr. Do! for the obscure platform called the Tomy Tutor.
th-cam.com/video/Hbn44U9z79I/w-d-xo.html
One of my favorite arcade games. Thanks for the memories lad.
You're welcome.
Wow this is like one of the best Atari ports I’ve seen
7800 is vastly underrated and unfairly maligned for some odd reason
great famicom port and as usually....x68000master race
Dig Dug is one of my favorite Namco arcade games, with it being both cute & challenging. I had the Atari 2600 & 5200 versions, as well as the Namco Collection vol. 3 for the PlayStation.
It's not Namco Collection, it's Namco Museum.
Dig dug guy’s name is Taizo Hori and he is also the star of the mr driller series
Correction, his son is the star of Mr. Driller. His name is Susumu.
Surprisingly enough, Famicom version has the smoothest animation of them all, like it's in 60fps.
The beginning of inflation
Man I had dig dug on a LG flip phone
That Ti-99 Music.. Holy hell make it stop!
An arcade classic with some decent ports
And now you've got that tune stuck in your head for months.
Hehe, it was annoying me when I had to play all the Ports.
The Atari 800 had two different versions. One that was released in 1982 that had more simplistic characters and garish colors. The 1983 version is exactly like the Atari 5200 port.
Thanks for the info.
No problem. Love talking about this stuff.
It's also released for the Atari 8-bit computers. Like most games that are ported to the ill-fated 5200, Dig Dug on the Atari 8-bit computers is the same as the 5200.
These games have the magic of the arcade like no others. Played a lot to the Famicom port, an excellent one like Pacman or Galaga, for example.
The Gameboy one is very similar to the Mr.Do port, with scroll
Kind weird how much they change Dig Dug 1 and Dig Dug 2, but it's still good game and I play it a lot at my NES.
One of the best BotP so far, too bad you ran C64's Dig Dug in PAL, and this is a NTSC game. It runs faster in NTSC.
Yeah, that was a bit of a mistake.
This was very Good! Thanks for posting mark !
You're welcome.
Hahaha. Do I really have to say anything about this timeless classic Mark? 8^)
But I will say another well done video as always bro. 8^)
Anthony..
Did Namco actually had that many arcade to Famicom ports that could be considered bad? To me, all of their early arcade hits were spot on on the Famicom. Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Galaxian and Galaga, Battle City, Mappy - all done very nicely, on par with Nintendo's own games.
Pacland is probably the worst. I do think that Namco could have done better with a few of there arcade to Famicom ports. maybe saying most were awful wasn't strictly right.
I don't think the C64 version is that bad, but I have to admit I play it on the emulator set to NTSC rather than on my real C64 wich is a PAL machine. For extra speed and slightly less squashed graphics. I think it's fair since this version was made in NTSC land and not with PAL in mind.
That is true. I think I was playing I PAL as it was a pal copy of the game. Or so I beleive.
Surprised at how close to the arcade the NES version is! And the 2600, Intellivision, and VIC-20 versions are quite impressive.
X68000 looks like a perfect port, only the sound was bit less inferior, but plays good
PSP version has the original (can arrange the screen for better play)
GC,PS2 and xbox is the same from arcade(Namco museum 50th anniversary)
GBA has a version too in Namco museum, has a poor sound (hardware)
Oh, I wasn't aware of the GBA port.
Yes, really has 2 versions:
1st version, from Namco Museum, developed by Mass media, simulation of arcade games, sound quality regular
2nd version, from Namco Museum 50th anniversary, developed by Digital Eclipse, 99% perfect port, sound quality better (near perfection), good control and can play in horizontal or vertical screen
Did you know Dig Dug's actual name is Taizo Hori, and his son is Mr. Driller?
Yep, I did know that. Kind of funny a game like this has a story.
one of the only arcade games where you got your quarters worth of time back in the day. reminds me of the roller rink
I remember seeing a Ms. Pac-Man machine at a roller rink one time. Me and my dad went there for a classmate's birthday. It was really nice.
Man, I never realized that there was so many ports for this. They all look good in their own right.
Neither did I until I started to research for this show.
It's always a pleasant surprise, isn't it?
Dig Dug, a great arcade game at the time which I still consider pretty fun! Now I wish the ColecoVision port was finished because it probably been very fun. I do believe Atari thought it was better than the Atari 5200 port which doesn't look too bad. But looked worse by comparison to them so yeah that could of been cool to see it finished. Also with the speed problem with one of the ports, I'm sure that it wasn't supposed to run that fast because I watched another video from another channel that compared Dig Dug and it ran fast but not as fast as it went for you, what I believe it could of been is just a emulation issue because I know 4 MHz isn't the fastest in the world so maybe a emulation issue, I don't know but something went wrong there though. Anyway, good video!
Vic 20 version and 7800 version are both excellent, though I guess the NES have the 8-bit edge. C64 in NTSC mode would be a contender too.
I think part of the reason the Apple ][ version sounds and plays the way it does is because it takes all the CPU to drive the beeper, hence why it stutters the way it does, it's switching between the sound and updating the screen. If I'm not mistaken, the 48K ZX Spectrum was the same way. Most Speccy games, if they had music at all, had it only on the title screen. Had there been a Speccy port, it probably would've sounded like this, but maybe a bit faster due to having a faster CPU: Apple ][ having a 1.023 MHz 6502 vs the ZX Spectrum's 3.5 MHz Z80. Surely that'd be enough grunt to drive both the game and the sound while still running at a decent speed.
C64 version is slow and squashed because you're playing the NTSC version in PAL mode. Also, the "MS-DOS" port was a PC port (it didn't use dos, you were playing the pirated crack). In the PC port, keypad "5" stops you moving (look at an old IBM PC keyboard to understand why).
The arcade's vertical resolution (admittedly just a screen on its side) is just something you don't get. Every version either has a reduced playfield or has to scroll.
Dig Dug was also on the Atari 8 bit and its completley different instead of being exactly the same as the 5200
That At.8-bit computer version was released 1 year before the 5200 version.
I think this may be the most ports you've covered in an episode.
Not the most but quite a lot. I think Bubble Bobble was the most.
Man, the countless hours I put into the 2600 version.
Funny trivia: His real name is "Taizō Hori", and was once married to Toby "Kissy" Masuyo of later arcade game "Baraduke" (apparently, it is official Namco canon that they divorced). Amongst their kids during marraige were Susumu and Ataru Hori and Taiyo Toby from thr "Mr. Driller" series.
Vidyagaems is wierd, mate. Also, like many vertical games featured on the six-disc Namco Museum series (or five for at least those of us in North America) for PS1, this has the option of enabling TATE mode to avoid the vertical scrolling.
TBH, that you know that stuff is a lot more ...
well, you know, what i mean.
Well, chalk the whole thing about Hori, Masuyo, and their kids to the following:
Mr. Driller (actually mentions Taizou is his dad, and later games even mention the same about their siblings),
Namco X Capcom (yes, took me a while to learn it was pronounced "cross".. titles are weird.), story has both Hori and Masuyo, and it gives insight as to why the latter no longer likes the former. Seriously wish licensing BS didn't keep the game Japan-Exclusive..
Wow, how do you know that information. A big fan of Namco characters I think 👍😀
Nah, for games like the Mr. Driller series and "Dig-Dug: Digging Strike" (ha, i c wut u did thar, Namco!), it's all really from just reading the instructions. I didn't know the whole deal about Masuyo and Hori until reading up a walkthrough of NxC while watching someone's playthrough vids of it. I do think NxC does provide some backstory info on characters in an extras gallery of some sort.
Ahh okay, I should have looked further down the comments. I mentioned this as well but also added that info is readily available over at Namco's UGSF timeline website as this game falls within that canon that Namco has created. ugsf-series.com/en/
Check my comment towards the top as I may have added even MORE information than what is written here! ^.=.^
Is it me, or games with cute concepts have very dark undertones. Case in point, pumping these enemies full of air (which looks to be painful by the way) until they burst.
Either way, it's best not to take this seriously.
Wait .. that's not a life lesson ?
Couldn't you have set so a lot earlier (so around 1983) ?
No, it's not just you. Take Pokemon for example (something I just can't relate to). They capture the poor creatures, make them live in a tinny ball the force them to fight other creatures. The evil bastards! 😋
Lot of strange platforms. I never played/seen a Casio PV 1000. Is it powerwise like a NES/SG1000/MSX1?
Hmm, maybe similar to the sg1000.
0:48 Or as I could say, take a dig underground. XDXDXDXDXD get it?
Very good 👍
Didn't anyone notice that the 7800 sounds the same as the 2600
Yo, Bob Marley colors on the ColecoVision port!
Were you unable to get the Sharp X1 port working due to lack of finding an X1 emulator or lack of the tape image or some other reason? I managed to get it working with MAME and the x1 driver, it just loads the tape and makes horrible noises for 3 minutes automatically (without having to enter weird commands like some other computers). But it worked in the end.
Ah wait I misread all that, you weren't even using emulation at all for any of these.
No, I couldn't cover the Sharp X1 version because I couldn't find a working emulator. Some of the games on this video are running on real hardware whole others are emulated.
The game where you kill animals with a bike pump lol
There's actually an alternate PC-88 version of Dig Dug with improved graphics and FM sound similar to the FM-7 one.
Nice. I wasn't aware of that.
Awesome classic Dig Dug 👍😆💖
Yay I like the shows better with 300 home computer ports! :)
There's more variety for sure. Unfortunately they take forever to produce.
I bet they do, I appreciate you taking the time to produce these videos, thank you.
Mario 3 shamelessly stole the dig dig theme for its "Athletic" song. I'm just realizing this now
Bloody Nintendo. They can do no wrong though in the eyes of fan boys.
Dig dug came first
Let’s hope for a N64 Classic from Nintendo.
I will be in that que.
Given the similarity in hardware, the MSX version gives us a good impression of what a finished Colecovision version could have been like.
I agree. It's a shame the Colecovision port was never completed.
I wonder why the music when you're moving was altered on Atari machines
Easier to program I guess.
I used to have the 2600 version, it was great fun!
There was an Atari 8 bit computer version too
Yep
Same as 5200 but better controls
After watching this video, I've learned this, that there is no excuse not to play Dig Dug in one way shape or form, so start playing it
Yep. Dig Dug is a fun game.
Amazing video, great arcade. Waiting for Galaga, one of my favorite arcade games of all time
Galaga is on the to do list. One day I'll get around to it.
I feel the game boy version is ruined by the poor hitbox you get killed when enemies feel like they're too far away to have killed you but i do like the new mode added in
lol, Dig Dug, we had lot of fun playing this game back then with my brother and my cousins. Might have been the Apple II version though which apparently is not so good but we didn't even know, it was AGES ago and this game was sort of a private joke among us :D
And actually I never played it again since but I should give it a more serious go now, I like these early arcade games.
Also, thinking about it, this game should have been ported to the Game Gear, it would have been perfectly suited for Sega's handheld but a port better designed than the Game Boy one, with smaller sprites in order to keep the full area visible at any time and this + the color graphics, this could have been nice. If I'm not mistaken, Mappy, another Namco game, is pretty good on Game Gear.
I didn't know Mappy was on the Game Gear. I'll be interested in seeing how it looks on that console.
This sounds like a new Battle of the Ports to come ;)
The 2600 version looks surprisingly good, and the 7800's is pretty nice. Aside from X68000, N64, and PlayStation which are arcade-perfect, I'll pick the Famicom one.
I really dig Dig Dug for some reason. The end comparing all the screens is like Dig Dug overload :) Coincidentally I have the high score for Dig Dug at 12 trillion and 2 points verified by twin galaxies. Hey that would have worked in the 80s!
hehehe, 12 trillion :D
I reckon watching the ending of this show while drunk would be quite an interesting experience.
You forgot the u in Dug
Oops, thanks for that. Just fixed the problem.
This is also used as a mini game in nintendo ds game dig dug digging strike unlike in namco museum it is arcade perfect but it's not emulated
I see. I dint know about that.
Great video Mark! You've included some very obscure Personal computers. Very nice. Do you think the '80s were blessed with choices for computers when compare with today?
I think it was cool that each system had its own look and sound. These days games basically look and sound the same no matter what platform they're on.
There are clones for the Amiga (digger) and ST (dugger), which aren't too bad. I played the MSX version back in the day.
Yet again, no Spectrum or Amstrad version of this Namco game. though i think i would've rather have a Speccy version of Dig Dug 2.i do enjoy Dig Dug, but i find the sequel a little more appealing. anyways, i think that Game Boy version is the best because of that new mode that it has.
(before video) I love this game. One of my favorites from the arcade. :)
0:16 Twenty ports?? ... damn... lolz (twenty-one including the arcade)
2:00 I've gotten that far one time. Once. I spent six bucks in credits to get that far. I don't think anyone has beaten the high score on that machine since, unless of course, the machine was reset...
3:58 Yeah. I hear that.
8:00 :| Ew. Chunky. 8:56 I saw that. That's a really bad glitch...
11:18 Okay, this is way worse than Apple ][, graphically. :|
12:12 MS-DOS got this??? ...I've nothing to say.
13:28 For the Coleco, it looks great, but's with the flashing sprites? It looks...odd... o.o
15:02 Yeah, that's running too fast. Might be why the controls aren't working.
17:14 (looks up Casio PV-1000) Huh. Looks like a calculator screen.
19:54 Black boxes around characters reminds me of how games were developed for the Commodore Personal Electronic Transcoder, or PET, lolz
20:26 If there's one thing the N64 never did that well with, it was pixelated images like this. The GPU was a bit too powerful for something as rudimentary, but for a game like Dig Dug, it's not a bad thing, however, there are games from this era that are damn near unplayable with the GPU's shortcomings, such as the Rally-X series. (ugh)
21:16 Unnn... I could say so many things but this...this...is just a waste of tech. This is worse than playing a bad port of an arcade game on TIGER ELECTRONICS. Oh, wait... this was ported to those too..... :(
I only ever played this in the arcade, and the Namco Museum ports. The GBA version of this game runs the N64 port, and it actually looks better because of the smaller screen. I used to be good at this game.
Check the website of official ugsf,it says dig dug is far future of galaxian
Will you ever do a Galaga - Battle of the Ports video?
Yep, at some point I will.
0:43 Those first notes were the same than on an early Mario game. Was it Mario 3, or World?
Anyway, Dig Dug did it first, it's from 1982 :)
No point in asking me anything about Mario. I can't stand Mario.
Mario 3 athletic theme.
There.
I just learned there's an Atari 800 version. And it's surprisingly different than the 5200. It came out 1 year before.
Now that is something special.
The music is also miles more accurate.
Ports on microsoft return of arcade and return of arcade anniversary edition is missing from your video
8:54 First there was one,
Now they're five.
All things considered I’d say ATARI2600 was pound for pound best conversion
Dude, you should try to get your enemies under the stones, as many as possible and smash them all at once.
I never really got into Dig Dug. It was OK though. I remember playing it in the arcade. I had the 7800 version but the 2600 version is surprisingly good. There's Dig Dug Arrangement on some of the Namco compilations but I think the original is a better game. I've read that Mr Driller is actually a sequel? Much prefer that game.
There's a pretty rare Dig Dug 2 arcade game but you are right in saying Mr. Driller is related. There's a whole crazy back story to the series.
Dude. Dig Dug arrangement was my JAM on the Ps2 version of Namco Museum as a kid! Constantly played it and Galaga arrangement whenever I could.
Actually, IIRC the Intellivision version was developed by Atarisoft, but it was released by Intv because they couldn't release it themselves I guess
Interesting. I wonder why they couldn't release it themselves?
@@RetroCore reading earlier comments this sounds almost like sarcasm
Don't mean to be that guy, but the INTV port was developed by Atarisoft, but published by INTV.
Ah, fair enough. I wasn't sure about that.
Do you emulate these or you have these systems?
Some are emulated and some are running on real hardware.
22 ports (including atari 8-bit)
Hang on.... there is no rom dump of Dig Dug for the PV-1000 on the internet, how did you manage to play it?
I didn't. A friend of mine owns a PV-1000 and my old X68000.
Retro Core thats amazing. Ive wanted wanted a PV-1000.
The console is so rare, only 5 games have been dumped, which include Pooyan and Amidar
I guess I'm not the only one who's annoyed about the music starting and stopping in Dig Dug.
You most certainly are not. It's an awful idea.
Had you compared Centipede yet?
Nope, not yet. Some day I will.
basically the 5200 and intellivision are the same
wonder y no speccy or cpc versions?
That is a good question. Maybe this one flew over the heads of the UK game destroyers at Ocean, US Gold, Tiertex and so on.
True, still a shame though.
Usually no official ports of namco games appear on said consoles.
I used to love this but always preferred Mr Do.
It looks like the C64 version belongs on a NTSC machine.
It quite well could be. This is a really old video, I can't remember now.
Also Atari 8-Bit Computer port by Datasoft missing
No time to add that I'm afraid. I presume it'd the same SD the 5200 port so I left it out.
no atari 2600, the enemy is a dragon and not a frog with wings
It's hard to tell what anything is on the 2600.
true. but i had/have imagination XD
No subtitles on this show?
They've just gone live now. I was editing the time stamps as they were a bit off.