I still get this tune in my head from time to time, some 30 years later ... Also, you can drop moneybags on the monsters, did that all the time. Sometimes two monsters at once ....
Two tips : If you dig under a bag and while you are under it, keep pressing up arrow the bag will not fall. Plus, while holding a bag if you fire you will fire backwards.
Another tip is to take the cherry with as many enemies as possible. Every enemy you kill while cherry frenzy will pop again afterwards. In level 1 for example he could have made 500 more points easily. And 25 extra if you manage to kill the last enemy and eat the last diamond at the same time.
in 1986 on IBM PC XT 4.77MHz, 640kb memory, CGA, 20mb HDD, floppy disc 5.25" 360kb it was my 4th game after SOKOBAN, ALLEY CAT and TETRIS which I played...
@@frequenco5545 in Poland at this time PC was unique... maybe 10 (on 500) persons in my primary school had one... So I been LUCKY... most of people had Atari, Amiga (rich), Spectrum, Commodore (poor)... So fast I upgraded my PC... EGA, VGA, SVGA... 286, 486, Pentium... extend HDD, RAM, floppy drive... but so long I had my first old desktop case - SENTIMENT...🥲
Still wake up sometimes having a tum-tum-tum-tum-tum-tum-tum...tum-tum-tum-tum-tim-tum-tam day Think that is the best bleepy computer game tune made out of nothing I ever heard up until today. Sweet memories of this game ! :)) God.. I miss that era!
This was *my* GAaaaaame!!!!!!! Mr Lee's fourth grade class, I was playing the *hell* outta this game 'and' that music after I won; this takes me ALL the way back to early 97 at Elihu Yale Elementary on 70th & Princeton after being transferred from my previous school!
Brings back me back to my childhood. Found a version of this to play online but it runs so fast. Another great thing about that time is there was no social media where everybody can be critical of your gameplay! haha
Hint for this game 1. Use F1 to Shoot enemy. 2. Dig up to gold sack and push up when enemy come , run away and the bag will fall 3. When you push up gold sack you can fire backward 4. If you want to play silently to avoid your parent Use F7 or F9 to mute (I cannot remember clearly but it is odd number) 5. collect diamond 8 piece in a row (do-re-me-fa-sol-la-tee-do) will earn more score
There is also a level editor in this game! Not many people know the tune generator in this game uses a very advanced PWM technique which is not possible on modern digital sound cards!
Да, но первая игра в которой я обалдел от звука была Mach3 %) Get ready for Mach Three! - и это, прямо, голосом из пищалки. И да, двухканальный PWM где-то в районе 60-х портов. Да и ещё с регенерацией памяти один из каналов, вроде был связан :-)
Wow, so this is what the game is supposed to look like. Had a shady disk full of old DOS games (Alley Cat, Shamus, etc.) and this, but it wouldn't switch to a correct graphics mode on my 286 with VGA and playing the game was a bit difficult with garbled textmode display... you could tell there was something going on, but not what. The music worked though.
EPIC classic game! I didn't know Digger even existed back in the early 80's but I'm loving it in 2021. Thanks for the gameplay my friend, good stuff indeed!
I played this as a child. I wish I could look back into those eyes, or perhaps through them; for they did not know those days were the best we’d ever have. Something so so insignificant as this; just a game, reminds me that all my friends I played this with are dead.
What a familiar tune. That remind me the first pc game that I addicted to with day and night. After I went through all of them I quit to play computer games.
Gosh. You really played so safe. And didn't maximise to possible score. 1. You should stop killing after bonus arrived. 2. Eat them will score higher than shoot them 3. Finally after Bonus finished then only you kill them all but remaining last one. 4. Finish all gold and left one diamond 5. Finally finish level by kill the last unit. This will give you the maximum score you can get in one level. You should do that in first three level, it is easy. Else level 4 above I agree to play safe like what you did.
4,5 Stand next to the last diamond (They're emeralds BTW); 6. While the bullet is on its way, eat the last emerald. The bullet will carry on and kill. That's the way to get to the ultimate maximum points at a stage. (Plus, once you have 5 men, start committing suicide to get two bonus stages.)
A super easy way to implement “hard mode” in this game would have been no shooting, which was how I played it anyways because I never knew shooting was available. Lol, it’s no wonder why it was so freaking hard!!
Hahah someone remade Dig Dug with different sprites ! Tbh the dirt and other mechanics are so identical, it makes me wonder if they used a copy of the actual Dig Dug source code as the base.
therealhardrock Square wave with non-50% duty cycle sounds similar to sawtooth, this games does PWM. PC hardware supports this, and many games even use PWM to play samples.
Actually, there are many games which could do sound-blaster quality sounds with PC Speaker. Mach 3, Electro Man, Another World, World Class Leaderboard, Metal Mutant and some more.
The guy that made this game was some kind of a genius from what I understand. I heard he can beat the first 4 levels with his eyes closed. Pretty cool.
@@noop9k I think you're confusing the terms "square wave" and pulse wave. The term "square wave" (which is a type of pulse wave) is DEFINED by having a 50% duty cycle, making its waveform square, as in equidistant on all sides. If you change the duty cycle of a pulse wave, it is no longer a square wave.
When I first heard the word adroit it made me think of that sound when he eats the gold. Actually I always think of that when I hear or see the word adroit, which isn't very often
It's a smart and challenging retro game but it's too frustrating when the little guy doesn't make a turn where you want it. The turning cases are not aligned with the moving cases The idea is not to chase all diamonds, but rather to hide and take down those goblins
Me pasó lo mismo, cuándo se popularizó esa canción sentía que ya la había escuchado en un juego pero nunca pude dar con el nombre de este juego, solo recordaba la canción, y que era como una especie de Pac-Man con un carrito que caminaba como una excavadora.
@@nurburgringkid thanks,basically to get max(or close) points it make sense to keep max quantity of monsters before digger eats cherry( entering bonus mode),and then try to catch them all.Lets say for 4 monsters you will get(250+500+1000+2000)=3750 points alone. But as you progress through levels its much harder to chase them,also you have less time. So it has to be right balance. My personal record is 78975. I can not imaging how people reach more than 200000 points,must be incredibly difficult.
Takes me back! Reminds me of spending weekends at my dad and my stepmonster's house. I used to hide in the study the entire time I was there so I wouldn't have to engage with the horrible bitter harridan that my father chose to marry. It was one of the few pleasures that I had at the time
i dont think so. but the way you can get more score is: do not eat all the diamonds. leave one diamond and then eat the cherry bonus, then keep firing the goblins until the last one died .
![Alley Cat - [MS-DOS]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/uZDG4dlU5uY/mqdefault.jpg)
I still get this tune in my head from time to time, some 30 years later ... Also, you can drop moneybags on the monsters, did that all the time. Sometimes two monsters at once ....
Me as well! I did not know about the F1 key to fire the balls for the first 6 months!
The original song is awesome and swings a bit better: "Popcorn" by Hot butter
I sometimes laugh in the tune of digger.
Ha ha-l Ha ha-l Ha-ha-ha
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Years later I heard the song on my local radio station and found out it was Popcorn 1969 I think was the year.
Played this 40 years ago, too... Note: The theme is the classic tune "Popcorn".
Two tips : If you dig under a bag and while you are under it, keep pressing up arrow the bag will not fall. Plus, while holding a bag if you fire you will fire backwards.
I never even knew you could fire!! Would have liked to have known this decades ago
Wow
Another tip is to take the cherry with as many enemies as possible. Every enemy you kill while cherry frenzy will pop again afterwards. In level 1 for example he could have made 500 more points easily. And 25 extra if you manage to kill the last enemy and eat the last diamond at the same time.
My first computer game ever!
Antonio Brandao i remember this being the first pc game i played too!
Gary Burch 😄✌️
Antonio Brandao Yeah, my too! 😃
me too
Same here, I still love it and when I played it for the first time I was almost my daughter's age...
in 1986 on IBM PC XT 4.77MHz, 640kb memory, CGA, 20mb HDD, floppy disc 5.25" 360kb it was my 4th game after SOKOBAN, ALLEY CAT and TETRIS which I played...
I guess I was more lucky with 3½-inch disk 720Kb, MCGA version back in 1984 :-)
@@frequenco5545 in Poland at this time PC was unique... maybe 10 (on 500) persons in my primary school had one... So I been LUCKY... most of people had Atari, Amiga (rich), Spectrum, Commodore (poor)...
So fast I upgraded my PC... EGA, VGA, SVGA... 286, 486, Pentium... extend HDD, RAM, floppy drive... but so long I had my first old desktop case - SENTIMENT...🥲
That tune is still ringing in my heart💖💖💖...the first pc game i played....
same first gamer tag I used, and never changed 🤗
I learned how to fire by methodically trying all the keys. Helped a lot with pirated copies of games back in 90s.
Still wake up sometimes having a tum-tum-tum-tum-tum-tum-tum...tum-tum-tum-tum-tim-tum-tam day
Think that is the best bleepy computer game tune made out of nothing I ever heard up until today. Sweet memories of this game ! :))
God.. I miss that era!
That's Popcorn, a famous isntrumental song from 1969: th-cam.com/video/NjxNnqTcHhg/w-d-xo.html
The Popcorn Makers - Popcorn
So many hours of my early life were wasted on this game. Brings back memories.
So many memories playing this game! Thanks for sharing! Love the music "popcorn"!
Ahhh thanks for the comment was trying to figure out the name of the song!
This was *my* GAaaaaame!!!!!!! Mr Lee's fourth grade class, I was playing the *hell* outta this game 'and' that music after I won; this takes me ALL the way back to early 97 at Elihu Yale Elementary on 70th & Princeton after being transferred from my previous school!
I was born in 86 & definitely remember playing this as a kid with my bros & sis 😂
this tune is popcorn
No it's Darude - Sandstorm
@@planetX15 bro, where are you from ? This joke is no more fun
Brings back me back to my childhood. Found a version of this to play online but it runs so fast. Another great thing about that time is there was no social media where everybody can be critical of your gameplay! haha
Ben Fifer I found a demo of this game on the PS3 store a few years ago, not sure if they actually released the full game though.
th-cam.com/video/QmMvAbIHOCk/w-d-xo.html
Turns out they did release it!!
Try digger.org
Hint for this game
1. Use F1 to Shoot enemy.
2. Dig up to gold sack and push up when enemy come , run away and the bag will fall
3. When you push up gold sack you can fire backward
4. If you want to play silently to avoid your parent Use F7 or F9 to mute (I cannot remember clearly but it is odd number)
5. collect diamond 8 piece in a row (do-re-me-fa-sol-la-tee-do) will earn more score
My father's favorite game, he's 72. :)
Love this game. I was young enough to play it. I thank all the teaches and students who allowed me to play this game. Thank u everyone!
I totally remember this! Thanks for the memories and the upload.
I still remember the times I tried eating money a split second before the bag finished falling... And getting squished.
This song is on my head since I was a kid
Loved this game - the music, the sounds when he eats the gold! So cool!!
Took us years to realize you could shoot.
I just realised it 😮
@@dmitriizapalatovskii2658 Wow!
There is also a level editor in this game!
Not many people know the tune generator in this game uses a very advanced PWM technique which is not possible on modern digital sound cards!
и что дает эта модуляция?
Adventure TV звук отличающийся от традиционной пронзительной пищалки.
Да, но первая игра в которой я обалдел от звука была Mach3 %) Get ready for Mach Three! - и это, прямо, голосом из пищалки. И да, двухканальный PWM где-то в районе 60-х портов. Да и ещё с регенерацией памяти один из каналов, вроде был связан :-)
Gracias por compartir este tesoro. Buenos recuerdos con este juego 🤗
Wow, so this is what the game is supposed to look like. Had a shady disk full of old DOS games (Alley Cat, Shamus, etc.) and this, but it wouldn't switch to a correct graphics mode on my 286 with VGA and playing the game was a bit difficult with garbled textmode display... you could tell there was something going on, but not what. The music worked though.
Indeed, the 4.77 mhz intel 8088 microprocessor was quite essential to be able to execute this with the correct timings.
I played it in black and white with no sound in my school. My first video game ever, since then I'm a game enthusiast.It's been 30 years now.
EPIC classic game! I didn't know Digger even existed back in the early 80's but I'm loving it in 2021. Thanks for the gameplay my friend, good stuff indeed!
I was playing digger in 1985 on my father's pc , intel 286 with a 20 Mo hard drive
I loved this game as a kid!
This game was brilliant, and hard as steel...
Also my first game and until now one of my favourite top three. I have downloaded it on every device I have, phones tablets and PC, (nostalgia)!:-D
where is my childhood..)
stop in '80s
I played this as a child. I wish I could look back into those eyes, or perhaps through them; for they did not know those days were the best we’d ever have. Something so so insignificant as this; just a game, reminds me that all my friends I played this with are dead.
When 12 years old, I got 100000+ scores. Keep going, man.
"Since PEOPLE Who Look through OTHER-PEOPLES Windows in '95 there's been a Lot more CHEATING in the Computer Game INDUSTRY."
- St. Playful."
Legeslegelső DOS-játékom volt.😃
Nosztalgikus húrokat pengetsz.😃
What a familiar tune. That remind me the first pc game that I addicted to with day and night. After I went through all of them I quit to play computer games.
I played this as a kid with my bros & sis! The memories..
This is the first game I remember that got more sophisticated synthesized music than just beeps out of a PC speaker
wow, nostalgic :) Thanks for sharing this :)
Gosh. You really played so safe. And didn't maximise to possible score.
1. You should stop killing after bonus arrived.
2. Eat them will score higher than shoot them
3. Finally after Bonus finished then only you kill them all but remaining last one.
4. Finish all gold and left one diamond
5. Finally finish level by kill the last unit.
This will give you the maximum score you can get in one level. You should do that in first three level, it is easy. Else level 4 above I agree to play safe like what you did.
4,5 Stand next to the last diamond (They're emeralds BTW); 6. While the bullet is on its way, eat the last emerald. The bullet will carry on and kill. That's the way to get to the ultimate maximum points at a stage. (Plus, once you have 5 men, start committing suicide to get two bonus stages.)
Fun fact: the song that plays on this ms dos game is a computer beep version of the song called popcorn
A super easy way to implement “hard mode” in this game would have been no shooting, which was how I played it anyways because I never knew shooting was available. Lol, it’s no wonder why it was so freaking hard!!
I remember when I was a kid, this was an advanced game
Childhood recalled
good old times, i can still hear the music then i think of this game.
Я доходил до призовых уровней. Спасибо за ностальгию
I still get this tune in my head from time to time... But I imagine a metal version of it
th-cam.com/video/O775dHUHxLs/w-d-xo.html
Great gameplay.
I wish I could remember which of this and Dig Dug I played first on a PC back in the early 80s.
1992-1995 годы. много часов ушло на эту игру
I didn't realise how bad i was at playing this game in the 80s until I saw this vid.
Hahah someone remade Dig Dug with different sprites !
Tbh the dirt and other mechanics are so identical, it makes me wonder if they used a copy of the actual Dig Dug source code as the base.
How did they manage to make a sawtooth wave sound with the PC speaker? The PC speaker is only supposed to do square waves.
therealhardrock Square wave with non-50% duty cycle sounds similar to sawtooth, this games does PWM. PC hardware supports this, and many games even use PWM to play samples.
Actually, there are many games which could do sound-blaster quality sounds with PC Speaker. Mach 3, Electro Man, Another World, World Class Leaderboard, Metal Mutant and some more.
The guy that made this game was some kind of a genius from what I understand. I heard he can beat the first 4 levels with his eyes closed. Pretty cool.
@@noop9k I think you're confusing the terms "square wave" and pulse wave. The term "square wave" (which is a type of pulse wave) is DEFINED by having a 50% duty cycle, making its waveform square, as in equidistant on all sides. If you change the duty cycle of a pulse wave, it is no longer a square wave.
@@therealhardrock Okay, you caught me, I'm not a native English speaker. Anything else?
I played it in black and white on my parents McIntosh SE. Gosh… I don’t remember the shooting option. the other game was Lode Runner!
When I first heard the word adroit it made me think of that sound when he eats the gold. Actually I always think of that when I hear or see the word adroit, which isn't very often
This is cool! Only heard of digger, never played it, only clones.
Jesus.. am I so old already?... Damn...
My first pc game!!! Wonderful gameplay!!
This is just one great classic
I would dream this music as a kid.
It's a smart and challenging retro game but it's too frustrating when the little guy doesn't make a turn where you want it. The turning cases are not aligned with the moving cases
The idea is not to chase all diamonds, but rather to hide and take down those goblins
My brother played that game, it was very hard because PC was very fast.
I wasn't sure if i played this before. But once the game starts, I remember the games sound and music!! Can we still play this online?
This is the game I reinstall on my all PCs... My record is about 83000 or so.
Sound is awesome with a sound card...
F1 to fire. Audio/Music ASM routines are genious.
I used to play this on a Java Phone and had a blast! It's also available on Android but I think it's to difficult too play on a touchscreen
Just found that you don’t need to eat all the dimonds
Eu sabia que já conhecia a música Popcorn bem antes de ela estourar nas rádios... Só não lembrava o nome deste jogo, que descobri agora.
Me pasó lo mismo, cuándo se popularizó esa canción sentía que ya la había escuchado en un juego pero nunca pude dar con el nombre de este juego, solo recordaba la canción, y que era como una especie de Pac-Man con un carrito que caminaba como una excavadora.
We played this on WinXP in emulator. The result was that I rememeber playing this game about 4x times faster than you do.
Wow que hermosos recuerdos me traé este video gracias por compartirlo 👍🏻💯
Remember playing this game on a faster PC it was insane 😬
지금은 치매로 요양병원에 계시는 우리 어머니께서 당시 유일하게 즐기셨던 PC게임. 매번 오니가 쫒아온다고 하면서.. 벌써 30년 전인가요..ㅠㅠ
At 1st level max points 8625,after 2nd you could get 19925,but its hard,because you should eat emeralds in 8ths to get 250 bonus points every time.
wow you sound like an expert player. any more tips. my score for first two levels usually only 12,000ish
@@nurburgringkid thanks,basically to get max(or close) points it make sense to keep max quantity of monsters before digger eats cherry( entering bonus mode),and then try to catch them all.Lets say for 4 monsters you will get(250+500+1000+2000)=3750 points alone.
But as you progress through levels its much harder to chase them,also you have less time.
So it has to be right balance.
My personal record is 78975.
I can not imaging how people reach more than 200000 points,must be incredibly difficult.
Takes me back! Reminds me of spending weekends at my dad and my stepmonster's house. I used to hide in the study the entire time I was there so I wouldn't have to engage with the horrible bitter harridan that my father chose to marry. It was one of the few pleasures that I had at the time
The 1st stage I don't know how my sisters and I manage to get extra points by using specific waypoints
Nostalgia 😭🔥
I dont understand what you are doing. Why dont you just eat the crystals ?
graphic settings? fps?
Я играл в 90-х. На первом своём компьютере. CPU Пентиум-133 МГц, HDD 1.3 ГГб... Ностальгия...
I remember hearing a rumour that if you cleared the entire screen you would get a hidden bonus... Never found out if it was actually true...?
i dont think so. but the way you can get more score is: do not eat all the diamonds. leave one diamond and then eat the cherry bonus, then keep firing the goblins until the last one died .
Wait. 1983?
And here I was thinking this was a Boulder Dash clone all this time, but it actually predates it...
the beginning of my path to be a gamer..................until adulthood kicked in that is
I would like to purchase this Digger game, does anyone know where I can get it?
My first game. I’m a 46
My golden misspent childhood :))
Good Mr. Do style game.
Is it true this game will only run in an 8086? No 80286, no 386, nothing else?
I hear Popcorn in this game!😄🤩😎👌
Is there a way to use the joystick with this game on a Tandy?
Почему монстры в одноглазых не превращаются и не начинают сами ходы рыть на первых раундах?
Qué emoción recordar este juego.
No sabia que se podría disparar
great game nostalgic thnx for sharing
Now as an adult I wonder how they program the AI. This and Pac man
My fathers favorite game
Everytime I'm looking for this game I type things like "mine", "miner" etc. and I realize after hour that this game is called "Digger"
I did not know it has a music and you can shoot.
This bgm is etiched into my brain..
I did not know you could beat a stage by stopping enemy spawns.
My best score was around 95000! What's yours?
why in heck was F1 the fire key?
no wonder it took me years to figure out you even could fire lol