Dig Dug

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Dig Dug is an Action/Maze game created by Atarisoft for the TI-99/4A home computer system. It was released on Solid State SoftwareTM Command Module cartridge during the fourth quarter of 1983. It was programmed for the TI-99/4A by James G. Landowski. The original retail price for Dig Dug on TI-99/4A was $49.95 (USD).

Dig Dug
Front of Retail Packaging for Dig Dug for the TI-99/4A
Dig Dug Retail Packaging
Publisher(s) Atarisoft
Original Retail Price $44.95 (USD)[1] [2]
Programmer(s) James G. Landowski
Part# RX 8509
Format(s) Solid State SoftwareTM Command Module
Release 1983 (4th quarter)[3] [4]
Genre(s) Action, Maze

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Gameplay

The player in the Dig Dug, plays the character by the same name. The objective is to destroy enemies on each screen. The enemies are called Pookas, red tomato-like creatures with large goggles, and Fygars, green, fire-breathing dragons. Dig Dug can destroy enemies in one of two ways: 1. Using a pump to expand them, causing them to explode, and 2. By crushing them under large boulders in the maze itself. The player can earn bonus points by squashing more than one enemy under a rock at the same time, or by dropping two rocks in a stage, after which a bonus item appears in the middle of a screen which gives the player bonus points once collected.

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