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This is an arcade-quality version of the arcade game Dig-Dug and will appeal to those with a yen for the subterranean. Your mission: To tunnel through the strata deep beneath the earth's crust in search of buried treasure.

Naturally, it's not just a question of getting your spade out and digging a hole. There are evil monsters down there in the bowels of the earth, all intent on keeping you poor.

There are giant man-eating tomatoes and green fire-spitting dragons, all of them in their own tunnels. When they fancy a change of scenery they transform themselves into ghosts and go roaming around the screen. At this time they are at their most dangerous, as they are very erratic and pretty quick.

Your man tunnels through the earth trying to get the moneybags. For protection against the monsters he has a neutralizer: this emits a squiggly line which takes a couple of seconds to shrink his enemies to nothingness.

The problem with this weapon is that it will only fire when you are moving sideways. So if you're travelling up or down and meet a hungry tomato or a heavily breathing dragon - it's curtains.

The game also has a time limit within which you must kill all the monsters before moving on to the next level. The yellow flowers at the top (daffodils perhaps) wilt as your time runs out.

The screen display is very pleasant with four layers in different colours. The other graphics are also good - the dragons are particularly well-executed. The sound adds to the atmosphere with chugging and digging noises.

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