Try this one on for size - New Zealand DOS game featuring... [Dig it!]

Vangar · Post by **Vangar** » Mon May 24, 2010 3:10 am

Okay, here's one that i can't seem to find, props if anyone knows this game!

I only had a shareware from some kind of racing DOS game disc, but it was a man that walked around in a cave, green and looked like the 'block revealer' from Kid chameleon on the mega drive if anyone knows what that looks like... i shall link a picture if i can find one..

In the cave there were snails that you had to defeat, it was a side-scrolling 2d platformer.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SzYGuA_unUE/S ... eclops.gif

Has anyone even seen this game I speak of? Definitely made in New Zealand or Australia... could be a secret missing Dosgame, haha.

Post by **dosraider** » Mon May 24, 2010 5:02 am

Oh man, I think I know that game.
Correction: I know it and I have played some levels of it.

But .... (as usual) ... I can't remember the name.
Wasn't it a freeware game?

...And if my memory isn't going completely......... nevermind that, multiplay included?

Vangar · Post by **Vangar** » Tue May 25, 2010 8:22 pm

Im not sure if it was freeware or not, but I thought I could remember it asking me to dish out some cash.

I don't remember a multiplayer - The graphics looked kinda smooth,vga style and larger then normal-ish sprites too.

Post by **dosraider** » Thu May 27, 2010 4:28 am

Nope, can't remember the name..... sorry.
Damn ol'memory.

Vangar · Post by **Vangar** » Thu May 27, 2010 6:26 pm

I may have to track down the friend who owns the dos demo disc and get it, but I don't think he has the disc anymore... Lost forever!

Post by **Wally** » Fri May 28, 2010 7:09 pm

Its not electroman is it?

Post by **dosraider** » Sat May 29, 2010 3:24 am

Vangar wrote:In the cave there were snails that you had to defeat.....

Electroman and snails ..... not that I remember, more then enough @#@#@# pesky robots, yes, but snails?
Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, don't think so.

Vangar · Post by **Vangar** » Sat May 29, 2010 2:37 pm

Hmm nope, I just had a look. The cave almost had a Donkey Kong Country Cave Feel, but it was smoother / not so realistic. Looked like it had depth from what i remember.

The title screen had the name of the game with the first area, with the snails moving around on it.

Vangar · Post by **Vangar** » Mon Aug 16, 2021 8:15 am

11 Year bump, but i found the game. It's 'Dig It!' And amazingly my description wasn't too far off, haha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7VO49uOSpw&t=500s

Only thing i had wrong was that I was convinced it was made in NZ, but it was Pixel Painters from Merrifield, VA.

Post by **MrFlibble** » Mon Aug 16, 2021 4:09 pm

Nice, MobyGames link:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/dig-it

Shareware version:
https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/dig-it/

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