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I gotta start out by saying that this game looks a hell of a lot
better than it does in these two screenshots - it uses a color flicker on the characters that can't
be reproduced in a screenshot. This game was one of three unreleased Atarisoft games for the Colecovision.
Dig Dug has always been one of those classics ever since it appeared and even spawned a sequal (which
for some odd reason I find more fun, but anyway) This is a pretty respectable port of the arcade
game to Coleco.
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I wish that I could say that this was one of the best arcade ports on
the Colecovision... I really do. However, this game is pretty much mediocre at best. I think it's
just the controls that bother me about this game. It's probably just a limitation of the Coleco,
but it seems like it takes more air pumps to blow up a bad guy, and you definately can't blow up the
enemies as fast as you can in any other version of the game. Other than that, the game is pretty
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While its not the best port of Dig Dug in the world (personally, I like
the Atari 7800 version the best of all of them), this is a pretty good prototype - it seems like it may
have needed a little bit of tweaking before it was released publically, but the title screen tells the
whole story on this one. Yet another victim of the Crash of 1983 finally gets a chance to rise from
its grave and finally show itself to the world...
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