The musical tempo increases, the meanies move more quickly and turn into ghosts more often than usual. The maximum number of lives you can have at any one time is eight. After that, a bonus life is won at every multiple of 50,000 points up to 200,000 points. You win your first bonus life at 20,000 points. (See the Game Screen.) You can also earn bonus lives. Remaining lives are displayed as squares at the lower left side of the screen. It appears for only a few seconds and you must get Dig Dug to completely cover the prize to score big points. You receive more points for blowing up meanies in the bottom layers that in the top soil.Ī high-scoring prize, which is usually a vegetable, appears once per round at the same spot where you started digging. Your underground mine is composed of four layers of dirt. When only one meanie is left, he will always try to escape, thus ending that round of the game. It can crush you, too, if you don’t get out of the way. To drop a rock: Dig under the rock, then move away fast| The falling rock will crush any close-pursuing meanie(s) that it touches. To blow up a meanie: Press the red fire button on your Joystick once or twice to stun the creature, then continue pressing the button to pump up the meanie until it bursts. You lose a life when any meanie touches you. The meanies who chase you are: the fire-breathing Fygar, whose flames fry you, the balloon-like Pooka, and the ghosts of Fygar and Pooka. You dig in the same direction as you move your Joystick. The game ends when you lose all your lives DIG DUG GAME PLAYĬreate your own tunnels and escape routes as you carve your way through the earth. To get the valuable vegetable, dig to it as soon as it appears and cover it completely by moving Dig Dug over it.Įach round is completed when you destroy all the meanies or when the last one escapes. Destroy meanies by using the fire button on your controller to pump them up until they burst or by drooping boulders on them. Your objective: Destroy the meanies who lurk below and uproot the prized produce. Use your Joystick Controller to dig through the earth in this one-player game. Their touch kills| Worse, these two meanies can transform into spooky ghosts that will appear out of nowhere and haunt you to death. Ever on the watch for vegetable prizes, you must also look out for the fierce Fygar(tm) and mean Pooka(tm) that lurk underground. With your jet-powered shovel, you create intricate, subterranean mazes. Licensed by Namco DIG DUG original Atari 2600 manual DIG DUG GAME OBJECTIVE
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