@jk There's some neat lore around Dig Dug. Exidy was showing a prototype digging game called "The Pit" at a trade show and a bunch of curious Namco engineers were poking at it.
"We described how you would find the Dragon and blow it up. Not ‘you kill it’ but specifically ‘you blow it up’. The Japanese gave us an old-fashioned look then made expanding gestures, then “boom”. The point being that when we said “blow it up” they thought “inflate.”
we're gonna do the thing again. you put your name in the bucket and i shake the bucket around and pull out a name and that person gets to tell me what to play. saturday september 2 at 4 or 5 pm. things are weird right now so i can't set an exact start time, but it will be around then hopefully. slushie will be there to offer commentary and moral support and probably poke fun at me when i beef it. hope to see you there.