One of the first games I played on the IBM PC was the original Digger, a four colour arcade game reminiscent of Dig Dug and Pacman. It was the sort of game where getting to the third stage was an achievement in itself, and it was played purely for score. Creat Studios have now, 25 years later, created a new version of Digger for the PS3 that both leaves the original game intact and updates it.

In Digger HD you control Digger, a little excavation truck that is digging for diamonds underground. Each stage is a single fixed screen and the action takes place on a 2D plane – as if you’re looking at a cross-section of a garden, or at an ant farm. Digger is able to make new paths in the dirt while the enemies that chase him cannot. On each stage a number of enemies appear out of a hole in the top right corner of the stage, looking a little like alien insects. They follow the paths you’ve made in a semi-random fashion, and generally get in your way. If they so much as touch Digger he does a somersault and dies, using up one of his 3 lives. Digger is able to shoot a fireball straight ahead of him that will kill an enemy, but there’s quite a long recharge time in between each shot so your main weapon is really the bags of gold dotted around the stage.

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