Videogame Review, Dig-Dug for the Atari 400/800 Computer (w/ Gold Atari 2600 Joystick)

Videogame Review, Dig-Dug for the Atari 400/800 Computer (w/ Gold Atari 2600 Joystick)

There’s plenty of bugs underneath the dirt for grappling onto something. No, you won’t need trigonometric operations for Dig-Dug although Atari home computers have their ways on 80’s nostalgia; particulars to include in Dig-Dug are related to excavation or wild pest control.  Do I have to explain what this classic does or should I just bury it with the pests?  Well, you’re controlling a guy in some kind of astronomer suit who must carry a bike pump of sorts in excavation for the pests lingering around.  Maybe the bugs are eating up some vegetables without permission.  Who knows?  Even the dragons are very big-like creatures since green animals of their kind approve of conflicting spaces given to pursuit within reach of an astronomer in white, black, and blue.  Graphics in the program are mildly amusing due to the combination realized by Atari of old and new.  My Atari 5200 console has a very similar form of Dig-Dug- it’s a mixture of Atari 2600 and Atari 5200 in terms of the graphical in innovation.  This computer program version of Dig-Dug for Atari home computers is really like the Atari 5200 version.  So, what’s the difference?  Atari 5200 consoles deal almost solely with analog controls: the Atari 5200 joystick and the Atari 5200 trackball.  The first analog controller is obviously better for grabbing on to in comparison to the trackball.  We can’t use the Atari 5200 trackball on Dig-Dug.  Dig-Dug has never been programmed for any of Atari’s paddle controllers; it’s either Atari 2600 joysticks and Atari 7800 joysticks (digital), or Atari 5200 joysticks.  I’m happy to report that all of Atari’s joysticks made with gold contacts from Best Electronics work well.  The difference, however, is that the Atari 2600 joystick has more of a bias in movement compared to that for Atari 7800 joysticks and Atari 5200 joysticks, due to time constraints imagined and engineered into the classic controller or what’s considered to be Atari’s most popular joystick.  It’s the controller that has the biggest following despite the fact most players aren’t exactly masterminds to programs like Dig-Dug.  Atari 2600 joysticks are made of plastic in the shaft while Atari 5200 and Atari 7800 joysticks are made with metal in the shaft, even if metal really takes the form of each shaft for the latter controllers into solid movements; in particular, it’s totally guaranteed that you’ll hit a direction precisely from a metallic shaft as opposed to a soft plastic one, like that found in Atari 2600 joysticks.  Of course it doesn’t really matter as to whether the Atari 2600 joystick in your collection is made with gold or silver metal because the joystick shaft in the Atari 2600 controller in question will always be soft plastic as opposed to tough, solid metal.  Imagine if I gave you a sword made out of nothing but soft plastic.  Would you think you’d do better with soft plastic?  Or, would you prefer a metal sword instead?  Dig-Dug most certainly benefits from either soft plastic or tough, solid metal.  The game is already pretty silly in nature!  It’s fun to blow up dragons and whoevers with a bike pump and even start digging for boulders falling onto trapped jerks.  Let a child play with the Atari 2600 joystick if you want; however, you’ll wind up getting to other controllers for “reference” anyway.  

https://youtu.be/5HcRKE9Bim8