Dig Dug (Atari, rev 1) - Gioco MAME

Videogioco arcade pubblicato 42 anni fa:

Dig Dug © 1982 Atari, Incorporated.

Export version by Atari for North America. Gioco sviluppato da Namco in Giappone. For more information about the game itself, please see the original Namco version entry.

DATI TECNICI
The Atari upright Dig Dug machine came in the same cabinet as several other Atari titles (such as "Kangaroo" and "Centipede"). The machine was decorated mostly with cartoon graphics showing scenes from the game, superimposed over a yellow background.

There was also a cocktail version. It had two control panels (one on each end). Each panel had a 'Pump' button on either side of the joystick, so left handed players can play equally well. This model used a 13-inch monitor (as opposed to the standard 19-inch in the upright), and the game image flipped for each players turn. The top glass is decorated with some cutesy pictures of Fygar, Pooka and Dig Dug.

Giocatori: 2
Control: Joystick a 4 direzioni
Pulsanti: 1 (PUMP)

CURIOSITÀ
Dig Dug was released by Atari, under license by Namco, on Aril 1982 negli USA, selling at an MSRP of $2095.

20,504 upright units were produced by Atari. There were also 1,219 cocktail units and 505 cabaret units produced.

Dig Dug was NOT the first game that Atari licensed from Namco, as is common belief. That honor goes to "F-1", the 3-D racing game from 1976 that projected a race track on a screen using a rolling film. Hardly anybody in Atari coin-op liked Dig Dug except for Brian McGhie (who later joined Starpath) and Owen Rubin. It was McGhie who added the finishing touches to Dig Dug. Rubin still owns an upright prototype cabinet of Dig Dug with hand-drawn artwork, and still considers it one of his favorite games of all time. The ROMs in his prototype are the actual production ROMs.

The background graphics are slightly different in these Atari versions; the earth is less regular than the Namco versions

In 1982, Atari released a set of 12 collector pins including: "Missile Command", "Battle Zone", "Tempest", "Asteroids Deluxe", "Space Duel", "Centipede", "Gravitar", "Dig Dug", "Kangaroo", "Xevious", "Millipede" and "Food Fight".

A Dig Dug unit appears in 1983 movie 'WarGames'.

Michael Jackson used to own this game (Namco Upright model). It was sold at the official Michael Jackson Auction on April 24, 2009.

The main character, as weel as a Fygar and a Pooka, appear in the 2012 animation movie "Wreck-It Ralph" from Pixar.

CONVERSIONI
NOTE: Only ports released in North America [US] are listed here. For ports released in other regions, please see the original Namco version entry.

• CONSOLE:

Atari XEGS (1983)
Atari 2600 (1983) "Dig Dug [Modello CX2677]"
Atari 5200 (1983) "Dig Dug [Modello CX5211]"
Mattel Intellivision (1987) "Dig Dug [Modello 9005]"
Atari 7800 (1987) "Dig Dug [Modello CX7803]"
Sony PlayStation (jan.31, 1997) "Namco Museum Vol.3 [Modello SLUS-00398]"
Nintendo 64 (oct.31, 1999) "Namco Museum 64 [Modello NUS-NNME-USA]"
Sega Dreamcast (june.25, 2000) "Namco Museum [Modello T-1403N]"
Sony PlayStation 2 (dec.4, 2001) "Namco Museum [Modello SLUS-20273]"
Microsoft XBOX (oct.9, 2002) "Namco Museum"
Nintendo GameCube (oct.9, 2002) "Namco Museum [Modello DOL-GNME-USA]"
Sony PlayStation 2 (aug.30, 2005) "Namco Museum - 50th Anniversary [Modello SLUS-21164]"
Microsoft XBOX (aug.30, 2005) "Namco Museum - 50th Anniversary [Modello NMO-2201A-NM]"
Nintendo GameCube (aug.30, 2005) "Namco Museum - 50th Anniversary [Modello DOL-G5NE-USA]"
Microsoft XBOX 360 [XBLA] (11 ott. 2006)
Nintendo Wii (oct.23, 2007) "Namco Museum Remix [Modello RVL-RN2E-USA]"
Microsoft XBOX 360 [XBLA] (4 nov. 2008) "Namco Museum - Virtual Arcade [Modello 21022]"
Sony PlayStation 3 [PSN] (16 lug. 2009) "Namco Museum Essentials [Modello NPUB-30086]"
Nintendo Wii (16 nov. 2010) "Namco Museum Megamix"
Microsoft XBOX One [XBOX Store] (apr.20, 2016) "Arcade Game Series - Dig Dug"
Sony PlayStation 4 [PSN] (apr.20, 2016) "Arcade Game Series - Dig Dug [Modello CUSA-03958]"

• PALMARI:

Nintendo Game Boy (sept.1992) "Dig Dug [Modello DMG-DY-USA]"
Sony PSP (aug.23, 2005) "Namco Museum Battle Collection [Modello ULUS-10035]"
Nintendo Game Boy Advance (june.10, 2001) "Namco Museum [Modello AGB-ANME-USA]"
Nintendo Game Boy Advance (aug.30, 2005) "Namco Museum - 50th Anniversary [Modello AGB-B5NE-USA]"

• COMPUTER:

Atari 800 (1982) "Dig Dug [Modello RX8026]"
Commodore C64 (1982) "Dig Dug [Modello RX8511]"
Commodore VIC-20 (1983) "Dig Dug [Modello RX8510]"
PC [Booter] (1983)
Texas Instruments TI-99/4A (1983)
Apple II (1983)
PC [MS Windows 95, 3.5"] (31 mar. 1996) "Microsoft Return of Arcade"
PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (2000) "Microsoft Return of Arcade Anniversary Edition"
PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (oct.25, 2005) "Namco Museum - 50th Anniversary"
PC [MS Windows, Online] (2009) "Namco All Stars - Pac-Man and Dig Dug"
PC [MS Windows, Online] (8 dic. 2010) "Namco All-Stars - Dig Dug"

• ALTRE:

Arcade (1996) "Namco Classics Collection Volume 2"
Namco Classics TV Game (2003) by Jakk's Pacific.
Telefoni cellulari (8 feb. 2005)
Arcade Gold featuring Pac-Man (2007) by Jakks Pacific.
Retro Arcade featuring Pac-Man (2008) by Jakks Pacific.
Arcade (2010) "Pac-Man's Arcade Party"
Pac-Man Connect and Play (2012) by Bandai.
Arcade (2018) "Pac-Man's Pixel Bash"

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