Fun Fact - the Intellivision version was originally written by Atarisoft, but not completed by the time the video game crash shut them down. INTV bought the rights to their old games library including the incomplete Dig Dug. The programmer at INTV completed the game, and discovered there was just enough spare memory on the cartridge ROM to stick in a secret game. He had rewritten Tron Deadly Discs to use various graphics from Burgertime, making the characters hot dogs. That game is called Deadly Dogs! and it's activated by pushing certain numbers on both controller keypads and hit the reset button.

Some fun facts here: The Dig Dug characters name is Taizo Hori and his son Susumu Hori is in a spinoff game called Mr. Driller which was originally to be known as Dig Dug 3 at one point. Dig Dug actually takes place within Namco's VERY large in-canon game universe known as U.G.S.F. (United Galaxy Space Force) which you may know from Namco's Galaxian 3 and Starblade series. Taizo Hori is part of the UGSF team that surveys planets for habitable locations, and Taizo Hori was sent to the planet in Dig Dug to eradicate the alien pests that ruled the underground world. Also, Taizo Hori's ex-wife was the main character in yet another Namco game called Baraduke (Also a part of the UGSF timeline). Her name is Toby "Kissy" Masuyo, and one of their sons is Susumu from Mr. Driller. (Yeah, this gets kinda deep...get it? DEEP! Cause he's digging really deep...uhh yeah. Anyways... Btw Mark, if you are interested in more of this Namco UGSF timeline and want to see what games are in what place within this timeline, please check here! You'll find it very interesting! (And yes, this is 100% official and created by Namco, although some games were added to the timeline retroactively.) Enjoy! ^.=.^ ugsf-series.com/en/

ah the memories, I used to play this game after school and I was very happy when my mother bought it for me at Christmas for my atari 2600 I do not know why but the music of this game was always my favorite even today at my 40s when I hear it it makes me feel very happy, memories of when the children were children and could go out without fear of something bad happening to them. That's why I love your videos, thanks for sharing.

The Atari 2600 is pretty great, even the background has various colors, the developers could have put just one single color on each stage or even on the entire game but nope! they did it the right way.

What surprises me most is that the Colecovision, Sord M5 and MSX versions are all entirely different and even the TI and Colecovision versions have different graphics although coming from the same company - despite these computers all having the same graphics chip, the TMS9918 (or a derivative thereof), and except for the TI they also all had the same CPU.

The more footage I see of the 7800, the more I'm convinced I would like it, sound issues aside.

You'd have expected the ZX Spectrum to get a port of Dig Dug, but no dice. Perhaps the C64 version was due to the format having a presence in the United States that the Spectrum didn't have. I guess the MSX version gives some indication of what a Spectrum Port may have been like, though the sound would have been much, much worse.

Dig Dug got ported to practically everything under the sun. It really is a fun game. :)

Dig Dug is the best arcade game to have the name arcade stuck to it :D

Mark: Lets take a look at all those versions running side by side. Me trying to watch with my phone: Damn it!

one of the only arcade games where you got your quarters worth of time back in the day. reminds me of the roller rink

Dig Dug and Doom protagonists are usually referred to similarly as their game names (though Doom's is Doomguy). In Mr. Driller series and Namco × Capcom, Dig Dug is named Taizo Hori; however, some of the most recent Mr. Driller games called him "Hero of the Dig Dug/South Island Incident", but in the PC remake Dig Dug Deeper, he went back to being called Dig Dug again. For Doomguy, his version in the Doom novels roughly based on the classic games gave the marine the name of Flynn Taggart. This name was re-used in the famous Call of Duty series, where the main character was just called "Taggart" for short. In the Doom movie, the name of the protagonist is John Grimm, nicknamed Reaper. Japanese game company Universal (now Aruze) later modeled Mr. Do! after Dig Dug, but with some differences. Both Dig Dug and Mr. Do! series earned some sequels, which you RetroCore might want to see if there are enough ports for them, too. Satoshi Tajiri demonstrated the first 4 Mr. Do! games. There's also Neo Mr. Do! for Neo-Geo.

Wow this is like one of the best Atari ports I’ve seen

The beginning of inflation

There’s also two Microsoft entertainment packs that had nothing but Namco games and the first Namco pack had Dig Dug. Great video!

great famicom port and as usually....x68000master race

The port for Atari 8-bit computers was quite good, and completely different from the Atari 5200 version for a change. I'm a little sad that you didn't cover it, but it was good to see the other versions of this game.

That Ti-99 Music.. Holy hell make it stop!

Dig dug guy’s name is Taizo Hori and he is also the star of the mr driller series

Surprisingly enough, Famicom version has the smoothest animation of them all, like it's in 60fps.

Man I had dig dug on a LG flip phone

Dig Dug is one of my favorite Namco arcade games, with it being both cute & challenging. I had the Atari 2600 & 5200 versions, as well as the Namco Collection vol. 3 for the PlayStation.

One of the best BotP so far, too bad you ran C64's Dig Dug in PAL, and this is a NTSC game. It runs faster in NTSC.

Grew up on the (pirated) Apple ii port and it was simply awesome because it actually had the background music. Sound took cpu cycles, and on a 1 MHz 6502 processor background music was a treat. This is one of those things where you had to experience it st the time, and loved it playing on a monochrome green screen 🙂

An arcade classic with some decent ports

Kind weird how much they change Dig Dug 1 and Dig Dug 2, but it's still good game and I play it a lot at my NES.

One of my favorite arcade games. Thanks for the memories lad.

These games have the magic of the arcade like no others. Played a lot to the Famicom port, an excellent one like Pacman or Galaga, for example. The Gameboy one is very similar to the Mr.Do port, with scroll

The Atari 800 had two different versions. One that was released in 1982 that had more simplistic characters and garish colors. The 1983 version is exactly like the Atari 5200 port.

It's also released for the Atari 8-bit computers. Like most games that are ported to the ill-fated 5200, Dig Dug on the Atari 8-bit computers is the same as the 5200.

Hahaha. Do I really have to say anything about this timeless classic Mark? 8^) But I will say another well done video as always bro. 8^) Anthony..

I don't think the C64 version is that bad, but I have to admit I play it on the emulator set to NTSC rather than on my real C64 wich is a PAL machine. For extra speed and slightly less squashed graphics. I think it's fair since this version was made in NTSC land and not with PAL in mind.

And now you've got that tune stuck in your head for months.

I had absolutly no idea, none what so ever that there wrere so many diffirent Dig Dug versions. This is great research, that's awesome. For me I love your videos. Thanks so much and im subscribing now.

Did Namco actually had that many arcade to Famicom ports that could be considered bad? To me, all of their early arcade hits were spot on on the Famicom. Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Galaxian and Galaga, Battle City, Mappy - all done very nicely, on par with Nintendo's own games.

X68000 looks like a perfect port, only the sound was bit less inferior, but plays good PSP version has the original (can arrange the screen for better play) GC,PS2 and xbox is the same from arcade(Namco museum 50th anniversary) GBA has a version too in Namco museum, has a poor sound (hardware)

Surprised at how close to the arcade the NES version is! And the 2600, Intellivision, and VIC-20 versions are quite impressive.

0:48 Or as I could say, take a dig underground. XDXDXDXDXD get it?

Dig Dug, a great arcade game at the time which I still consider pretty fun! Now I wish the ColecoVision port was finished because it probably been very fun. I do believe Atari thought it was better than the Atari 5200 port which doesn't look too bad. But looked worse by comparison to them so yeah that could of been cool to see it finished. Also with the speed problem with one of the ports, I'm sure that it wasn't supposed to run that fast because I watched another video from another channel that compared Dig Dug and it ran fast but not as fast as it went for you, what I believe it could of been is just a emulation issue because I know 4 MHz isn't the fastest in the world so maybe a emulation issue, I don't know but something went wrong there though. Anyway, good video!

Vic 20 version and 7800 version are both excellent, though I guess the NES have the 8-bit edge. C64 in NTSC mode would be a contender too.

Yo, Bob Marley colors on the ColecoVision port!

C64 version is slow and squashed because you're playing the NTSC version in PAL mode. Also, the "MS-DOS" port was a PC port (it didn't use dos, you were playing the pirated crack). In the PC port, keypad "5" stops you moving (look at an old IBM PC keyboard to understand why).

Is it me, or games with cute concepts have very dark undertones. Case in point, pumping these enemies full of air (which looks to be painful by the way) until they burst. Either way, it's best not to take this seriously.

This was very Good! Thanks for posting mark !

Were you unable to get the Sharp X1 port working due to lack of finding an X1 emulator or lack of the tape image or some other reason? I managed to get it working with MAME and the x1 driver, it just loads the tape and makes horrible noises for 3 minutes automatically (without having to enter weird commands like some other computers). But it worked in the end.

Dig Dug was also on the Atari 8 bit and its completley different instead of being exactly the same as the 5200

The arcade's vertical resolution (admittedly just a screen on its side) is just something you don't get. Every version either has a reduced playfield or has to scroll.

I used to have the 2600 version, it was great fun!

Let’s hope for a N64 Classic from Nintendo. I will be in that que.

Did you know Dig Dug's actual name is Taizo Hori, and his son is Mr. Driller?

Didn't anyone notice that the 7800 sounds the same as the 2600

Awesome classic Dig Dug 👍😆💖

Man, the countless hours I put into the 2600 version.

Man, I never realized that there was so many ports for this. They all look good in their own right.

Will you ever do a Galaga - Battle of the Ports video?

Yay I like the shows better with 300 home computer ports! :)

Great video Mark! You've included some very obscure Personal computers. Very nice. Do you think the '80s were blessed with choices for computers when compare with today?

Lot of strange platforms. I never played/seen a Casio PV 1000. Is it powerwise like a NES/SG1000/MSX1?

The game where you kill animals with a bike pump lol

0:43 Those first notes were the same than on an early Mario game. Was it Mario 3, or World? Anyway, Dig Dug did it first, it's from 1982 :)

There's actually an alternate PC-88 version of Dig Dug with improved graphics and FM sound similar to the FM-7 one.

lol, Dig Dug, we had lot of fun playing this game back then with my brother and my cousins. Might have been the Apple II version though which apparently is not so good but we didn't even know, it was AGES ago and this game was sort of a private joke among us :D And actually I never played it again since but I should give it a more serious go now, I like these early arcade games. Also, thinking about it, this game should have been ported to the Game Gear, it would have been perfectly suited for Sega's handheld but a port better designed than the Game Boy one, with smaller sprites in order to keep the full area visible at any time and this + the color graphics, this could have been nice. If I'm not mistaken, Mappy, another Namco game, is pretty good on Game Gear.

Funny trivia: His real name is "Taizō Hori", and was once married to Toby "Kissy" Masuyo of later arcade game "Baraduke" (apparently, it is official Namco canon that they divorced). Amongst their kids during marraige were Susumu and Ataru Hori and Taiyo Toby from thr "Mr. Driller" series. Vidyagaems is wierd, mate. Also, like many vertical games featured on the six-disc Namco Museum series (or five for at least those of us in North America) for PS1, this has the option of enabling TATE mode to avoid the vertical scrolling.

You forgot the u in Dug

I really dig Dig Dug for some reason. The end comparing all the screens is like Dig Dug overload :) Coincidentally I have the high score for Dig Dug at 12 trillion and 2 points verified by twin galaxies. Hey that would have worked in the 80s!

Amazing video, great arcade. Waiting for Galaga, one of my favorite arcade games of all time

Mario 3 shamelessly stole the dig dig theme for its "Athletic" song. I'm just realizing this now

The 2600 version looks surprisingly good, and the 7800's is pretty nice. Aside from X68000, N64, and PlayStation which are arcade-perfect, I'll pick the Famicom one.

After watching this video, I've learned this, that there is no excuse not to play Dig Dug in one way shape or form, so start playing it

There are clones for the Amiga (digger) and ST (dugger), which aren't too bad. I played the MSX version back in the day.

Dude, you should try to get your enemies under the stones, as many as possible and smash them all at once.

I wonder why the music when you're moving was altered on Atari machines

There was an Atari 8 bit computer version too

This is also used as a mini game in nintendo ds game dig dug digging strike unlike in namco museum it is arcade perfect but it's not emulated

8:54 First there was one, Now they're five.

Ports on microsoft return of arcade and return of arcade anniversary edition is missing from your video

Do you emulate these or you have these systems?

Hang on.... there is no rom dump of Dig Dug for the PV-1000 on the internet, how did you manage to play it?

(before video) I love this game. One of my favorites from the arcade. :) 0:16 Twenty ports?? ... damn... lolz (twenty-one including the arcade) 2:00 I've gotten that far one time. Once. I spent six bucks in credits to get that far. I don't think anyone has beaten the high score on that machine since, unless of course, the machine was reset... 3:58 Yeah. I hear that. 8:00 :| Ew. Chunky. 8:56 I saw that. That's a really bad glitch... 11:18 Okay, this is way worse than Apple ][, graphically. :| 12:12 MS-DOS got this??? ...I've nothing to say. 13:28 For the Coleco, it looks great, but's with the flashing sprites? It looks...odd... o.o 15:02 Yeah, that's running too fast. Might be why the controls aren't working. 17:14 (looks up Casio PV-1000) Huh. Looks like a calculator screen. 19:54 Black boxes around characters reminds me of how games were developed for the Commodore Personal Electronic Transcoder, or PET, lolz 20:26 If there's one thing the N64 never did that well with, it was pixelated images like this. The GPU was a bit too powerful for something as rudimentary, but for a game like Dig Dug, it's not a bad thing, however, there are games from this era that are damn near unplayable with the GPU's shortcomings, such as the Rally-X series. (ugh) 21:16 Unnn... I could say so many things but this...this...is just a waste of tech. This is worse than playing a bad port of an arcade game on TIGER ELECTRONICS. Oh, wait... this was ported to those too..... :( I only ever played this in the arcade, and the Namco Museum ports. The GBA version of this game runs the N64 port, and it actually looks better because of the smaller screen. I used to be good at this game.

Given the similarity in hardware, the MSX version gives us a good impression of what a finished Colecovision version could have been like.

22 ports (including atari 8-bit)

I feel the game boy version is ruined by the poor hitbox you get killed when enemies feel like they're too far away to have killed you but i do like the new mode added in

All things considered I’d say ATARI2600 was pound for pound best conversion

I just learned there's an Atari 800 version. And it's surprisingly different than the 5200. It came out 1 year before.

Actually, IIRC the Intellivision version was developed by Atarisoft, but it was released by Intv because they couldn't release it themselves I guess

No subtitles on this show?

I never really got into Dig Dug. It was OK though. I remember playing it in the arcade. I had the 7800 version but the 2600 version is surprisingly good. There's Dig Dug Arrangement on some of the Namco compilations but I think the original is a better game. I've read that Mr Driller is actually a sequel? Much prefer that game.

Can you do a Dig dug Arrangement for Battle of the ports

I used to love this but always preferred Mr Do.

Don't mean to be that guy, but the INTV port was developed by Atarisoft, but published by INTV.

Check the website of official ugsf,it says dig dug is far future of galaxian

Yet again, no Spectrum or Amstrad version of this Namco game. though i think i would've rather have a Speccy version of Dig Dug 2.i do enjoy Dig Dug, but i find the sequel a little more appealing. anyways, i think that Game Boy version is the best because of that new mode that it has.

you forgot the atari 8-bit series

I guess I'm not the only one who's annoyed about the music starting and stopping in Dig Dug.

basically the 5200 and intellivision are the same

Also Atari 8-Bit Computer port by Datasoft missing

It looks like the C64 version belongs on a NTSC machine.

I'm not trying to be rude, but his name isn't Dig Dug. It's Taizo Hori. If I'm wrong, freely reply with "R/wooosh"

Wait, you never did dig dug? How?! Also i wonder if there was an arcade version of dig dug 2

no atari 2600, the enemy is a dragon and not a frog with wings