It was 1982. I walked into my local arcade and there was this game I had not seen there before. That game was Dig Dug, a game that mesmerized me the moment I set eyes on it and a game that I still love to this day. Dig Dug was a Namco game that Atari distributed in the United States in 1982. The game was designed by Masahisa Ikegami and Shigeru Yokoyama, with programming by Shouichi Fukatani and Toshio Sakai. Dig Dug is a maze-digging game in which the player controls the titular character, Dig Dug (aka Taizo Hori), as he digs tunnels in the ground to attack his enemies by pumping them until\ they explode or by crushing them with rocks. Dig Dug must clear the screen of…
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