Dig Dug

Dig Dug is a 1-2 player arcade game in which you have to use your shovel to dig your way through the earth. Stopping you from doing this are two monsters, called Pooka and Fygar, who will continually chase you…

70 20 February 1982

Arcade Action

Dig Dug is an arcade developed by Namco, released 20 February 1982 on Xbox 360 and Arcade. The main story takes about 1 hrs to finish.

Verified 27 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Dig Dug is

Dig Dug is an arcade game developed by Namco and released in 1982. It was published by Atari. It is available on Xbox 360 and Arcade.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In the classic 1982 arcade game Dig Dug, you play as Taizo Hori, an underground miner or gardener. His mission is to protect the surface world by clearing an underground maze of mutated, subterranean monsters—the goggle-wearing Pookas and fire-breathing green dragons called Fygars.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Dig Dug holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 35% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1982 averaged 66, so it scored 4 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 74, across 91 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 1 hrs.

Cheats and codes

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