"Digger" is what?

If a modern gamer who was born closer to the turn of the millennium, to ask about whether he knows what "Super Mario", "Pakman" or "Digger", he is unlikely to be able to find the answer. And you can not blame him for this, because these games were published long before his birth. They remember only the hard-core gamers who enjoyed the eight-bit graphics and believed that this is a real work of art. Of course, now for the creation of computer games are used ultramodern technological achievements, but this does not cancel the high quality of games such as Digger. It is about him now and will be discussed, because this game was remembered by millions. It 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 appearance of the project should know about it.

Basic information about Digger

In the distant 1983, an Australian computer game development company released a project that was not very original or unlike the others. As you can understand after a couple of minutes of playing time, "Digger" is an arcade in which you have to dig through the earth, getting jewelry and fleeing monsters. Similar games have already been released earlier, but "Digger" has become something more than a regular game, and explaining it now, more than thirty years later, is no longer so simple. Perhaps the reason was that the developers endowed the game with some original features. Perhaps the whole point is that the visual performance and sound accompaniment to users liked more. But in any case, this project, and not its predecessors, has become a cult, which everyone still remembers. "Digger" - a game that was tightening and not letting go, because it was something incredible and exciting.

Other values

Naturally, this term is not only a computer game. But if you analyze this question, it becomes clear why the game is called so. 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 borrowing from the English language, where the word dig is translated as "dig," and digger, respectively, "he who digs." There is no exact translation into Russian, therefore, such a borrowing appeared. In the game, you need to take on the role of a character who digs the ground to get to the treasure, so the name is completely justified. But this term also has other meanings. For example, the subculture of diggers - people who explore various underground structures created by humans - is widespread throughout the world. They are guided by different goals - from pure interest to obsession with the idea that the Third World War can start from the metro. In 2004, the popular newspaper Argumenty i Fakty even published an article titled Digger is a Shadow in the Gloom, which described both diggery in general and the Russian direction of this movement in particular. But do not be distracted, because the main theme now is a computer game.

The basic principles of Digger

So, starting the game, you get used to the role of a fictional character, which falls under the ground. His task is to look for treasure and escape from monsters. Each level is a territory that is filled with earth, and you can dig it, punching your way to the treasure. "Digger" is a game that develops gradually. At the initial levels, you will be fairly simple, because you will need to collect not so many jewelry, and 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 look more closely at the game itself Digger. Lurkmore in a joking form describes all the processes quite accurately, but it's better to approach the issue more seriously.

hidden treasures

Your main goal is the extraction of treasures. Precious stones 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. Precious stones are much easier to extract - you just need to dig their way to them and go to the cage, which 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 be poured out of it, which you can safely assemble. By the way about the falls - you move around any cells freely, but you need to closely monitor what you are driving under. You can accidentally undermine a stone or the same bag of gold. This object can fall on you - and you will perish. So you will not be able to thoughtlessly dig around everything, otherwise you will not be able to win - each level will need its own tactics. Moreover, you will be disturbed by monsters, which can be very annoying in the game "digger". What is it and how can these monsters affect you? The answers to these questions you will find further.

Monsters

At each level in the right corner monsters are born that will travel around the map and eat you as soon as they touch you. So these meetings you have to avoid. You will need to bypass monsters and collect jewelry to complete the level as soon as possible. Of course, you also have the means to fight monsters - you can shoot at them, but you will need a lot of time to recharge. Also, you can take risks and try to use trenches to deal with opponents - a stone falling on them will kill them no worse than you. There is, however, another means of fighting monsters.

Bonus mode

Destroying each monster gives you a point, which you need to collect a certain amount on each level. Once you kill the 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 squeeze the most out of such a rare bonus.

Remakes

Naturally, at one time, "Digger" made a real sensation, and the computer games market immediately began to be filled with remakes. The producers tried to repeat the success of Digger, because, as you remember, he was a kind of a remake himself. However, not a single game could win the same glory as Digger. There are alterations to the original game that add support for a touch screen or high resolution, there are also third-party projects that put the hero in the cemetery and make him the main opponent of zombies. But none of these games have gained worldwide fame and could not match the original.

Present day

By now, "Digger" remains a cult game of the eighties and nineties, people remember this project, but the new generation can already look at you puzzled. Unfortunately, now they do not even create projects similar to "Digger" - this branch has long been extinct, because it could not be transferred to a modern format. The same games about the plumber Mario continue to produce and to this day, translating it into a three-dimensional world. A "digger" lives only in memories.