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Driller's mom was all about, this is the way to do it. The fifth volume of Namco Museum for PS1 included Baraduke, one of the few times it's ever been compiled. Baraduke/ Namco Museum 5 (1996, PS1 Classics).

1996 DIG DUG ARRANGEMENT MONSTERS PSP

These are admirable ports, although do keep in mind you're playing an arcade title reworked for PS1 emulated on PSP and interpreted on Vita. The original retrogame compilation series, Namco Museum's five volumes contain roughly two dozen greats altogether. Dig Dug/ Namco Museum 3 (1996, PS1 Classics).That said, it's the baseline of the entire franchise, and as such it's still fun and addictive. Driller is as stripped-down as it gets, with only a single playable character and the basic arcade modes. They also didn't really do much with PSP! However, Vita's broad support for PS1 Classics releases is the key here - you can play quite a few relevant PS1 releases on Vita. arcade games crammed painfully onto DS).Īs with 3DS, Namco never brought any of these games specifically to Vita. This compilation is kind of slumming it, but it was developed by the superstars at M2, so it's quite good for what it is (e.g. Meanwhile, Digging Strike is a weird hybrid of Dig Dug II, Dig Dug, and Mr. Drill Spirits amounts to a stripped-down Drill Till You Drop, so only buy it if you can't get ahold of the DSiWare release. These two are definitely acquired tastes. It's a very strong conversion of the arcade game. You can buy the NES port (well, technically, the Famicom port, since no one ever released the original Dig Dug as an NES cart) on all versions of Virtual Console. If you get any one game on this list, make it this one.

As a DSiWare release, you can no longer purchase it on original hardware (the Gamespy-based DS network died a few years ago), but you can find it on 3DS eShop. It's a more strategic take on Driller and can be incredibly addictive.

This is the one English-language Driller to retain the puzzle-like Dristone adventure format, wherein oxygen ticks down not with time but rather as you perform actions. In my opinion, this is the single best Driller game ever localized into English. Driller: Drill Till You Drop (2010, DSiWare) Just remember to hold down Start or Select when launching a DS/DSiWare title on 3DS to activate true-pixel resolution!

1996 DIG DUG ARRANGEMENT MONSTERS SOFTWARE

Although Namco Bandai never released a 3DS-specific Driller game, the handheld's backward-compatibility with DS and DSi software gives it the widest array of games relevant to this topic (the company went all-in on the franchise during the DS era). Here are my recommendations for the best way to get ahold of these games. Altogether the two franchises (along with tangents like Baraduke and Star Trigon) account for more than a dozen unique releases across countless platforms. Driller continued it about 16 years later.

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The Dig Dug series kicked off 35 years ago, and Mr. We'll begin, naturally, with this week's podcast topics: Mr. Each week (or thereabouts), How Should I Play It? will present you with the best options for legitimately and legally playing the classic games we cover here at Retronauts, ideally on current platforms. Driller episode!): Where on earth can I find these games to play them on contemporary systems? Rather than leave you alone to fend for yourself in a cold, uncaring world of platforms and reissues, we're introducing the ' How Can I Play It?' series. We frequently field the same basic question after many episodes of Retronauts, especially overviews of interesting, niche franchises (as with yesterday's Mr. Mission control for retronauts former EIC of 1UP.com and taking dapper (and frogs) back from the Nazis.

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