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Dig Dug – Ready Player One Video Game Replay

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A screenshot from Dig Dug, featuring the main character (in white) digging through yellow, red, and orange layers of earth to find an exterminate monsters.

Dig Dug is a quirky tunneling-based arcade game from the 1980s. It features an … exterminator? … in a white environment suit who ventures underground to wipe out the pests dwelling there. Released in 1982 by Namco, it became a staple of arcades and myriad game consoles. Quote I continued farther into the dark electronic cave … Read more

Pac-Man – Ready Player One Video Game Replay

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Pac-Man faces off against different colored ghosts in the arcade classic.

One of the definitive 1980s arcade games – maybe the Definitive Arcade Game (after all, did Asteroids or Space Invaders have their own theme songs?) – Pac-Man is a classic. The game was created by Toru Iwatani, and released on May 22, 1980 by Namco. The rest, of course, is history. Quote I continued farther into the dark … Read more