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| Dig Dug was yet another Arcade hit crossover to the Atari 2600 |
Dig Dug was a popular Arcade game released by Namco in 1982 following the success of Galga for that company. Atari was licensed to bring Dig Dug to Arcades in the US and also to home consoles and so in 1983 they released the Atari 2600 version of Dig Dug.
Unfortunately, Dig Dug on the Atari 2600 suffered from the same problems as a lot of late-era 2600 Arcade ports in that it suffered huge graphical and sometimes even gameplay limitations versus the Arcade title of the time. It also didn't help that many games were being rushed out the door and pushed to a market already saturated with poor games.
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| A screenshot of the Atari 2600 version of Dig Dug |
Dig Dug is a great game and the Atari 2600 port does it justice at least in the gameplay department. Graphically it is a little failing but the fact that you can get the great gameplay of Dig Dug at home was nice for the time. In 1983, it was hard to pick the good games on the Atari 2600 from the bad and unfortunately if you got Dig Dug you didn't quite get the best game, but at least you didn't get a total stinker.
Further Reading:
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig_Dug
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