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[Monk]

http://www.namco.com/pub/game_digdug/videos/4594_DD_large_v01.swf


Looks sweet.

 

[ikalugar]

hell yeah, looks real cool

 

[Wario64]

Looks like a fun game

 

[Mrbob]

Oh hell. What is this? Dig Dug is one of my favorite all time classics. Looks awesome. But a little confusing. I don't know what is going on between the top screen and bottom screen. And there is that plug or whatever the hell that is going down. I don't get it whats the hook? Then there is a top down shooter with Mr Driller? What?

 

[Unison]

Wow... looks way better in motion than it did in screens...

The integration of Dig Dug 1 & 2 seems really cool in practice & I'm glad that you don't have to kill every single enemy, which seems to radically alter the gameplay style.

 

[Unison]

Oh hell. What is this? Dig Dug is one of my favorite all time classics. Looks awesome. But a little confusing. I don't know what is going on between the top screen and bottom screen. And there is that plug or whatever the hell that is going down. I don't get it whats the hook? Then there is a top down shooter with Mr Driller? What?

You should try Dig Dug II, and then that top screen will make sense.

Basically, in that game you had to drill to carve away parts of an island, so they'd drift from the mainland & fall into the ocean. Here you are making the support beams go away by digging underneath them, killing the enemies on the island above.

 

[GDGF]

This looks damn sweet. Kinda like a big Dig Dug family orgy. It'd be neat if through one cart multiplayer you could play the bottom screen while your friend played the top or vice versa.

 

[bobbyconover]

Then there is a top down shooter with Mr Driller? What?

Looks like you can discover Mr Driller themed mini-games based on classic Namco games. The one in the video is Xevious, of course, or "Horivalou" -- the ship in Xevious is called "Solvalou" and Mr Driller's name is Hori Susumu.

Oh, btw, this is so GOTY it's not even funny. The clip with the swimming Pookas rules!

 

[sc0la]

it actually looks like a bad ass combonation of Dig Dug and that old NES game Boulder Dash

 

[Unison]

It'd be neat if through one cart multiplayer you could play the bottom screen while your friend played the top or vice versa.

*Mind melts at the awesomeness of this prospect*

 

[The Faceless Master]

wow, i guess some devs have dug deep into ideas to get some good dual usage out of those screens

 

[Flynn]

Was that two-player gameplay at the end of the clip?

 

[bobbyconover]

Was that two-player gameplay at the end of the clip?

Sure looked like it!

 

[jooey]

it actually looks like a bad ass combonation of Dig Dug and that old NES game Boulder Dash

...which would make it, um, Dig Dug!

It's more of a hybrid of Dig Dug 1 and 2, which is more than enough to get me giddy.

 

[sc0la]

...which would make it, um, Dig Dug!

It's more of a hybrid of Dig Dug 1 and 2, which is more than enough to get me giddy.

I was refering more to the "trap setting" aspect of the game play, which was always more involved in boulder dash, But I never played DD2 so maybe its in that one.

 

[wobedraggled]

Wow, very impressive.

I can't wait.

 

[Ranger X]

Shit, i'm so buying this!

 

[..pakbeka..]

this shall be mine

 

[TheDiave]

Looks cool!

 

[Parallax Scroll]

Man, it's shit like this that'll make me get a DS.

 

[Crazymoogle]

Dig Dug + Dig Dug 2 + Xevious = must buy