Dig Dug

Dig Dug digs fruits, vegetables... and tunnels.
Dodging and blasting Pookas, and dropping rocks on fire-breathing Fygars; dig Dug burrows his way through a maze of subterranean paths. Ripe fruits and veggies, loaded with points, are his passion. But the evil denizens of the underground pack a potentially lethal wallop, and can hid behind fruits. Even when Dig Dug kills them they may come back as Ghosts. Ghosts don't need tunnels and are harder to kill. Luckily, when the chips are down, they turn out to be cowards... and worth points.

LOADING INSTRUCTIONS
TURN OFF your Apple Computer. Insert the Centipede diskette into the main disk drive. (Drive number one)
TURN ON the Apple Computer. If you have an Apple II-E computer, make sure that you are in upper case mode by pressing the CAPS LOCK key.
In about twenty seconds, Centipede will be running.
Number of Players can be selected from the initial screen. Choose one or two player option.
The game can be played with a joystick or from the keyboard. To select the joystick mode, just press RETURN and the game will start in the joystick mode. To select keyboard mode, press the 'K' key. The joystick will not work in the keyboard mode. To return to the joystick mode, press the 'J' key.
GAME CONTROLS
KEY GAME FUNCTION
A Moves bug blaster up
Z Moves bug blaster down
Moves bug blaster left
-> Moves bug blaster right
Space Blasts bugs and mushrooms
J Selects joystick mode
K Selects keyboard mode
To restart the game, it will be necessary to turn the computer off and then on again to reload the program from disk.
Imagine that you live in an enchanted mushroom patch filled with Attacking Centipedes. Jumping Spiders, Frenzied Fleas and Scurrying Scorpions—each with magical powers. Luckily, you have a bug blaster to fight them off
Dreaded Bug Blaster
The bug blaster destroys bugs and mushrooms. You start each game with three bug blasters (the number remaining is shown at the top of the screen next to your score.) Press the red button once on your Joystick Controller for a single shot, hold the button down for rapid fire blasting. You'll be awarded an additional bug blaster for each 10,000 points you score, and you can earn up to six bug blasters at any one time.
March of the Centipedes
The Centipedes attack from the top of the TV screen, zig-zagging back and forth each time they bump into a mushroom. The bug blaster destroys the Centipede by blasting each segment separately.
You must destroy each segment of the Centipede before it can reach the bottom of the screen.
Otherwise the Centipede splits into two or more segments and continues down the screen. When an entire Centipede is destroyed, a new one attacks from the top of the screen.
Frenzied Flea
The Frenzied Flea may create more mushrooms wherever he lands, making it difficult to shoot a bug until it is dangerously close. The flea's bite can destroy your bug blaster, too!
Jumping Spider
But wait, there are other dangers. The Jumping Spider, which isn't blocked by mushrooms, can pounce on your bug blaster and destroy it. And when the Spider jumps over a mushroom, that mushroom may magically disappear.
Poisonous Scorpion
The poisonous Scurrying Scorpion can dash across your patch and poison any mushroom just by touching it ! When a centipede touches a poisoned mushroom, the Centipede goes insane and heads directly for your bug blaster.
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LOADING INSTRUCTIONS
TURN OFF your Apple Computer. Insert the Dig Dug diskette into the main disk drive. (Drive number one)
TURN ON the Apple Computer. If you have an Apple II-E computer, make sure that you are in upper case mode by pressing the CAPS LOCK key.
In about twenty seconds, Dig Dug will be running.
GAME CONTROLS
The game will start in the Title screen. To continue from there, press any key. When the option screen appears, you will have the choice of Joystick or Keyboard mode. Press 'J' for joystick and 'K' for keyboard.
To play from the keyboard, you may select which keys will move Dig Dug Up, Down, Left or Right and which key will activate the pump or you can choose to use the default selections shown below. To change keyboard selection, press your key selections when asked for Up, Down, Left, Right and Pump. To use the default selection, just press RETURN.
DEFAULT KEYBOARD SELECTION
GAME CONTROLS KEY ACTION
A Move Dig Dug up
Z Move Dig Dug down
<- Move Dig Dug left
-> Move Dig Dug right
Space Activate the Pump
Any Other Stop Dig Dug
To turn the sounds off and on, press the CTRL key and the S key. The ESC key will pause the game and restart a paused game.
The CTRL and Q keys together will quit the current game and call up the title screen where you can start a new game.
To change from keyboard mode to joystick, or to change back, it will be necessary to reboot the game from disk and reselect your choice.
During the game Demo, press any key to start the game.
The planet above is dry and rocky. But deep down below, the lush, fertile dirt has preserved a few precious nutrients of years gone by — rare vegetables and fruits!
Dig Dug is hungry today. All by himself, he burrows his way down to the ancient earth's center for a taste of the buried treasure. But Dig Dug takes a wrong turn, only to discover unexpected dinner guests who will eat just about anything ...
There's Pooka'', a ravenous robot who likes cute, little creatures just about Dig Dug's size. Pooka isn't all that swift; his stomach is bigger than his eyes!
And then there's Fygar`", the fire-breathing dragon. Fygar likes his snacks well done, and lately he's been dreaming about Dig Dug — cooked to a crisp!
You can fight for Dig Dug's life, and his dinner. First, you can fire and stun Pooka so Dig Dug can slip past. Be careful —touching Pooka when he isn't stunned will stun Dig Dug, instead! You can also fire at Fygar but beware of his fiery breath that's strong enough to pass through tunnel walls. Muster up the courage to attack Fygar from the right or left — it's worth twice as many points as attacking him from above or below.
You can also drop rocks on the monsters. Simply tunnel underneath a rock when one or more monsters are chasing you. If you're tunneling upward, be tricky and make a sharp turn just before you reach the top rock. Anything following you will be quickly crushed. If you're tunneling sideways, time youself so that the rock falls just as they run underneath it.
In any round after you drop two rocks, a vegetable or fruit will appear at the center of the earth. Gobble it up! The more Dig Dug eats, the more points you will earn.
But don't fritter your time away! Unless you destroy these mud-loving monsters soon, they will use the dirt-black darkness to their advantage, and turn into ghosts! That way, they can rise directly toward Dig Dug. You can shake a trailing ghost by forcing it to completely re-enter a tunnel. When that happens, it turns back into a monster.
The last monster left in any round loses his nerve and rushes to the surface, if necessary as a ghost, to escape Dig Dug. Once he reaches the topsoil, he scurries to the left. To catch him before he disappears, Dig Dug must follow closely behind.
If you're hungry for adventure, help Dig Dug find his food!
Pooka and Fygar are t-willigeriP/ larks of Namco Ltd.