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>Digger from 1983 is a Dig-Dug-Clone-but-Not that came out right as IBM PCs were starting to take off, and it’s a lovely little game

I used to play this a lot. But is it really a dig-dug (1982) clone? It looks closer to Mr. Do! (also 1982) to me.

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That was my first game, played it on a 286 or similar in what could still have been the USSR (or right after it was gone).

IIRC, it had a PC-speaker rendition of Popcorn by Hot Butter as a soundtrack.

Still one of my favorite tunes!

One of my first games as well. You're correct about the popcorn soundtrack

Yep, my first game too, and I remember the song. When I heard the popcorn song many years later in life, I was stopped dead in my tracks because it stirred nearly the oldest memory I had stored in my head.

Replace USSR with the Netherlands and we have a similar memory.

Also, apparently that song has a long history in electronic music:

https://www.popcorn-song.com/versions.php

There was also a digger remake, which is now so old that it's also nostalgiaware! https://digger.org/

We had this game but on our IBM PCjr, and something with the hardware config wasn't what the game was expecting which made the sprites scrambled but still in the spot on the screen where they should go. The game was otherwise playable and audio was fine. I didn't see the actual graphics for the game until several years later!

I'll accept that.

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