Fun fact: The true lore is that those Pooka's and Figar's keep ruining my crops... and the only way to kill them is by inflation or crushing them...

“It’s getting darker!” Has now become the new “I hunger!”

Dig Dug is my favorite arcade game, but it's undeniably pretty dang weird and disturbing if you think too much about it. It doesn't get less strange when you get into the whole Dig Dug... gamematic? universe where Taizo Hori aka Dig Dug marries (and later divorces) the protagonist of Baraduke and fathers Susumu Hori aka Mr. Driller (a series with its own dark undertones with all the suffocating/crushing children 1000+ meters underground)

I mean, if I heard dig dug music slowly approaching from the darkness I'd be scared as fuck too.

I was going to reference Word Wizard when you brought up happy horror games, but you beat me to it with the ending, lol.

I always interpreted this game as Dig Dug was a farmer and was basically just doing pest control

1982, an amazing year for arcade games. Donkey Kong Jr., Joust, Robotron 2084, Moon Patrol, Time Pilot, Front Line, Pengo, Gravitar, Frenzy, Bump 'n' Jump, Pepper II, Anteater, Bagman, and many others in addition to this show's own featured games Bubbles, Reactor, QBert, Blue Print, Popeye, and now Dig Dug.

I always just got the impression that you're just an exterminator killing monsters that are messing with the land, also I used to think they were just merging through the dirt rather than digging since they didn't leave a trail

Dig Dug: Digging Strike on the Nintendo DS eventually confirmed that Taizo Hori (the DigDug you've been familiar with the whole time) had exterminated Pookas and Fygars because they threatened tropical islands. And after he started envying his son Susumu from the Mr. Driller series (a spin-off series from Dig Dug), another monster infestation happened to take place and the original Dig Dug set out to destroy those monsters again in hopes of reclaiming his fame. Update: In addition to this, there's apparently an ad for the video game _Dig Dug_ from 1982 from Atari that showed the monsters ravaging the world. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jZmKqMyHspbScYE.html

I loved Dig Dug ! at the arcade my kids loved it! it was so entertaining and funny, you can play for hours as you collect your vegetables and flowers.

The funny voice at the beginning of these vids never ceases to crack me up 😆

Never understood why Pooka was a "bad guy". Fygar was a little intimidating with his fangs and fire breath, but Pooka didn't seem like a bad creature, and in Pac-Man World he's even the first character to be rescued by Pac-Man!

5:00 I actually have a theory for that! You see that the dig dug sprite has a blue face, you’d think that’d be his visor, however he also has it on his arms which is impossible, how could dig dug have visor material over his entire arms? That’s where my theory comes in, that isn’t dig dug’s visor, he actually has blue skin because he is an alien creature, and we could just be seeing the characters as small cause of how far the camera is to dug himself, so he’s actually and alien that’s even bigger then a spaceship

Not a single DeviantArt joke, that's impressive.

actually the music tied to your movements is because the sound designer couldn’t get a convincing walking sound so they wrote a little jingle and called it a day.

This is the first time I saw one of these when it was new. It's really cool that you're still at it.

2:18 I'm fairly certain you and I are the only ones that remember that movie.

Whenever I go to my local pizza place I always play on the arcade machine there and try to get the high score on Dig Dug. They shut off the machine every night so my high score never sticks. Boo.

Your back! I love this series!

Dig Dug is just a game about someones inflation fetish going too far.

FINALLY a new WVG video! It has been a long time! :D Hope it won't take as long for the next WVG video lol :).

The king is back.

Wow, i never stopped to think that way. And i played this game a lot

A month and a half late?! I didn't get a notification for this! Oh no!!! Oh well...I'm glad you uploaded. I've been searching for some good content.

Haha great video! Reverse Dig Dug , love that lol. This is one of my favorite arcade games of the 80's . . And just like everyone else, always new it was rather brutal with the kills with the pump . . But never thought of Dig Dug being this dude thats just out to do a genocide lol. You're right . . His goal is to just to kill these cute creatures and one is left running for its life in terror of you lol, and then yeah the vegetables are just bonus points, not needed to advance to next level . . . This a was a very fun video, thank you :-)

Interesting that you mention Bomberman early in the video, because in the first two games he dies pretty much the same way as creatures from Dig Dug, but with a sound that's vaguely reminiscent of a nasty fart (or a deflating baloon, whichever you like). Well he doesn't really "dies" since he's a robot, but as a kid I didn't know that - the game is called Bomberman and I took the "man" part literally.

A game that inspired many fetish artists... yeah, of course it's going to be a LITTLE weird, hehehe

One thing u can win if u don’t kill anyone and just avoid because they come out of the dirt and run.

Weird or not, a game about a pyschopath literally rampaging through the Earth for victims and eating entire interstellar vehicles in one bite - all while happy music plays - is pretty goddamn awesome.

My headcanon is that the monsters cause earthquakes and Dig-Dug goes to stop them

1:23 for swole 5:51 for falafel

If you knock two rocks the vegetables show up. The goal is points and killing them lower in the ground gives you more points for some reason. Kill the dragon horizontally for more points. Weird game, but it's fun.

3:41 - 3:56 is when he made a mistake in talking and it’s not tied it only gets faster when there is one left

Taizo Hori: *breathes* The Pookas and Fygars: And we took that personally.

Cool vid thx for the making of this vid

Galaxian spaceship is trying to be a fake veggie

why at the ending bit is there this cut to this tiktok video of an entire fam running from DigDug

Taizo is an evil video game serial killer.

Well, I guess the whole vegetable thing from the manuals isn't that out of the question, as the Pookas (from what I remember) were based, design-wise, off of tomatoes.

Tell the mushroom is a veggie if you don't know what a mushroom is

Fruits is just a sacrifice, that this poor animals do in hope you did not wipe their species

WHY DOES KZfaq WANT ME TO WATCH DIG DUG CONTENT SO BADLY

When this first came out I always thought Dig Dug looked like a Smurf.

I think the real story is about the flowers, he want to protect them from the monsters

Good video! Very funny. I always thought this game was about a guy on a mission to dig up and kill these creatures before they burrow out of the ground and kill everyone above. Then again, I never read any manuals. lol. Just a guess.

and then in the sequel besides inflating them to death *you destroy their land and make them drown to death*

when i play dig dug home i saw something i just saw vegetables 🍅

Well done!

I think when they run away they are attacking a city or something. I thought he was a miner came across animals didn’t have a gun or any other weapon beside a pump.

I don't think I played DigDug as a kid, but I recognized Pooka from somewhere else. He is one of Pac-Man's kidnapped friends in the first Pac-Man World game. I never played Pac-Man World 2, but apparently in that game there are multiple Pooka enemy characters. Maybe Pac-Man found out some dark secret about the Pookas between games. pacman.fandom.com/wiki/Pooka

3:01 “Pacman’s a bad guy?”

Of course it is all about fruit. Specifically, grapes of wrath.

*Pov:* dig dug is hunting you and your family

Games that we all know is Weird. Like Fighting Bears in Tekken, or Seeing a Giant Monkey Head in Star Fox.

I Dig this!!

Plus, PS2 released a new version of dig dug, I did not really listen that well but I think a village hired you because people where being attacked by these things and you were supposed to get rid of them

Aw this game is definitely the inventor of the inflation fetish 😂😂😂😂

The main character's name is Taizo Hori, his ex wife is Masuyo Tobi (from Baraduke) and they are the parents of Susumu Hori from the Mr Driller series. Also check out his artwork form Namco X Capcom: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r8iGabSbztDYl40.html

it is finally fucking back!

6:45 Cue "Are We the Bad Guys" video clip

Thank You Tom! 👍

Some later games instrution books call the Pooka's Ground Pidgeons and this game is set in the same time period as the Galaga Series. Yet the Sequel series to this game Mr Driiler where you can play as Dig Dug or his Son is not that futuristic looking.

There's a Robot Chicken sketch that parodies Dig Dug, check it out later, is kind of hilarious

I have a feeling that Pooka and Fygar really ARE the good guys in the game this whole time....

Glad your still kicking WVG

Arcade 1 up included this in its ms pacman release

Ya didn’t mention the rocks!

What about the old atari commercial that says they are terrorizing a city

The galaxian space ship, watermelon the folophel and the mushroom are all not veggies

0:06 this theme is giving me donkey kong vibes

Dig dug story theory: pookas and fygars killed humans

Bro you do know that pookas are actually just walking tomatoes right?

Fun fact Dig Dug is a divorced dad

No Deviantart jokes? You disappoint me.

was that a mitchell and webb look reference at the end ?

please do a vid on Bubble 2000 arcade game

Deviantart was Born

I gotta admit dig dug is weird but I was the king of the game in my house, it took me a phew months to be able to kick my dads ass in the game while it took him years when he was a kid😂

also i think the manuels are right about the ghosts

you really need to listen to those guys. 0:36

Shit, it's *that game!* I played it a lot and totally forgot about it for many years until now. I'm not even feeling nostalgic or whatever, but seeing it made me slightly happier.

I thought I would never see you again.

The Psychological Video Game Nerd?

Play dog duh digging strike it tells you why you kill them and the ghost fact cause when the level is almost over the ghost appears

5:44 all monster wipe out

Don't let foolish haters crap on your pile of mashed potatoes. This means something. This is important.

2:46 *RAGE*

Dig Dug!!!😃✌️🍻

Pixel face Ross PIXEL FACE!

Tom do berserk next.

Im 12 years old and i LOVE retro gaming If your seeing this in the future..............hi

What the heck was the video at the ending

Dig dug a good game with this game story of talk about dig dug is my game

WVG

dig dug would be rated m if it was released today

what happens when they escape?

I've actually written about this in my book lol

At some point it gets boring and repetitive at higher levels But generally I used to like this silly game at arcade stores 😂

Of course with the player is not a alien dig dug is accorsi nada alien by the way I made a Deerfield of dig Dug not being a alien

I think it's very important that people know that inflating someone with a substance until they pop is in fact a sex fetish that people get off to. I hope this knowledge makes you uncomfortable. You're welcome.