ArcadePerfect
Dig Dug
The most elegant violence in arcade history
Namco1982Action, Arcade
Emulator
MAME
Quality
Perfect
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The Story
You inflate enemies with an air pump until they explode. That is the entire combat system. Dig Dug is a game of perfect violence executed in the silliest way imaginable — the enemies puff up, they wobble, they pop. The underground terrain creates a physics sandbox where rocks can be manipulated into traps. For something this simple, the strategic depth is absurd. Namco's 1982 masterpiece still plays as well as anything made in the decade that followed.
Tags
classic1-playerstrategy