If a modern gamer born closer to the turn of the millennium is asked if he knows what Super Mario, Pakman or Digger is, he is unlikely to find the answer. And you cannot blame him for this, because these games were published long before his birth. They are remembered only by seasoned gamers who enjoyed eight-bit graphics and believed that this was a real work of art. Of course, state-of-the-art technological advances are being applied to create computer games, but this does not negate the high-classness of games such as Digger. It’s about him that we’ll talk now, because this game was remembered by millions. She was one of the best in the eighties and remained so in the nineties. Digger is a symbol of a whole generation of computer games, and even those who were born twenty years after the project was born should know about it.
Digger Basic Information
Back in 1983, an Australian computer game company released a project that was not extremely original or unlike the others. As you can understand after a couple of minutes of playing time, Digger is an arcade game in which you have to dig up the earth, extracting jewels and escaping from monsters. Similar games have already been released earlier, but Digger has become more than just another game, and explaining it now, after more than thirty years, is no longer so easy. Perhaps the reason was that the developers endowed the game with some original features. Perhaps the whole point is that users liked the visual performance and sound accompaniment more. But in any case, it was this project, and not its predecessors, that became the cult project that everyone still remembers. "Digger" is a game that was addictive and did not let go, because it was something incredible and exciting.
Other values
Naturally, this term means not only a computer game. But if you look at this issue, it will become clear why the game is so called. So, what interests you in the word "digger"? Definition, meaning, translation — that’s what you need to focus on. So, this word is not Russian - it is a borrowing from the English language, where the word dig is translated as "digging", and digger, respectively, is "one who digs." There is no exact translation into Russian, therefore, a similar borrowing appeared. In the game you need to take on the role of a character who digs the earth to get to the treasures, so the name is quite justified. But this term also has other meanings. For example, a subculture of diggers - people who explore various underground structures created by man - is widespread throughout the world. They are guided by various goals - from pure interest to an obsession with ideas that the Third World War could begin from the subway. In 2004, the popular newspaper Argumenty i Fakty even published an article titled “Digger is Shadow in the Dark,” which talked about diggeriness in general and the Russian direction of this movement in particular. But do not be distracted, because the main topic now is a computer game.
Digger Fundamentals
So, starting the game, you get used to the role of a fictional character who falls underground. His task is to search for treasures and escape from monsters. Each level represents a territory that is filled with earth, and you can dig it, making your way to the treasures. Digger is a game that develops gradually. At the initial levels, it will be quite simple for you, since you will not need to collect so many jewelry, and the monsters will be slow and few. But with each level, the task will become more complicated, and you will have to try harder to achieve your goal. But how to do that? To do this, you need to take a more detailed look at the game Digger itself. Lurkmore in a joking manner quite accurately describes all the processes, but it is better to approach the issue more seriously.
hidden treasures
Your main goal is treasure mining. Gemstones and gold are what you hunt for. If you want to know what Digger is, you need to understand what is expected of you in the game. Gems are much easier to mine - you just dig a move to them and go to the cage that contains such a stone. With bags of gold, things are much more complicated - you have to dig under them so that they fall from the height of at least two cells. Then the bag will burst, and gold will pour out from it, which you can safely collect. Speaking of falls - you move freely around any cells, but you need to carefully monitor what you are driving under. You can accidentally dig under some stone or the same bag of gold. This item may fall on you - and you will perish. So you will not be able to thoughtlessly dig everything around, otherwise you will not be able to win - for each level you will need your own tactics. Moreover, monsters that can turn out to be very annoying in the game "Digger" will interfere with this. What is it and how can these monsters affect you? You will find the answers to these questions below.
Monsters
At each level in the right corner, monsters are born who will travel on the map and eat you as soon as they touch you. So you have to avoid these meetings. You will need to go around the monsters and collect jewelry in order to complete the level as soon as possible. Of course, you also have the means to fight monsters - you can shoot at them, but at the same time you will need quite a lot of time to reload. You can also take risks and try to use undermining to crack down on opponents - a stone falling on them will kill them no worse than you. There is, however, another means of fighting monsters.
Bonus mode
Destruction of each monster gives you a point, which you need to collect a certain amount at each level. As soon as you kill a monster, a new one appears in the corner, but these points are responsible for their total number, and when it reaches zero, the bonus mode is activated. In this mode, you can destroy monsters by simply touching them, as they did in their time with you. Naturally, this mode is very limited in time, so you have to hurry if you want to get the most out of such a rare bonus.
Remakes
Naturally, at one time, “Digger” made a splash, and the market for computer games immediately began to fill up with remakes. Manufacturers tried to repeat the success of "Digger", because, as you recall, he himself was a kind of remake. However, not a single game could win the same fame as Digger. There are alterations of the original game that add support for the touch screen or high resolution, there are third-party projects that put the hero in the cemetery and make him the main opponent of zombies. But none of these games has gained worldwide fame and could not compare with the original.
Present day
To date, “Digger” remains a cult game of the eighties and nineties, people remember this project, but the new generation can already look at you in bewilderment. Unfortunately, projects that are similar to Digger are not even being created right now - this branch has already died out because it could not be transferred to the modern format. The same games about the plumber Mario continue to be released to this day, translating it into a three-dimensional world. And Digger lives only in memories.