Dig Dug by ~ClockworkHare on deviantART

Dig-Dug is one of the first games I ever played. Seriously, we had it on our Commodore 64 back in the day, and I was basically handed a joystick the second I was born, so there’s a very good chance that I was playing this game in diapers. I’ve always sort of seen it as an underrated classic that has to sit in the shadow of stuff like Pac-Man or Donkey Kong. Both of which are awesome games, don’t get me wrong, but there was something about Dig-Dug that I have always really liked. Maybe it’s the fun music, or the entire ridiculous premise of having to go underground to blow up critters (not saying that other Commodore 64 games didn’t have ridiculous premises.)

Now when you’re a little kid you’ll turn video games into whatever you want, so I would do things like attempt to clear the entire screen of dirt, which totally is not the point of the game but I did it anyway (and it gave you bonus points if I recall correctly.) I would also do that thing where you would torture the poor monsters by inflating them nice and slowly and seeing how long you could stretch it out. Come on, I can’t be the only kid who did that.

Anyways, this game is a classic, and it’s usually in my personal video game Top Ten list somewhere. I also have it on my cell phone and I’m not afraid to admit it.

Dig-Dug forever!