Diggers (video game)
1993 puzzle video game
Diggers is a puzzle video game developed and published by Millennium Interactive for the Amiga CD32 in 1993 in Europe and 1994 in North America. The player takes control of a mining team excavating a planet for precious minerals.
It was later released for the Amiga 1200 and MS-DOS. Diggers was bundled with the CD32 at launch, along with the platform game Oscar on the same CD. A sequel, Extractors, was released for MS-DOS in 1995.
Gameplay
The game is set on the planet Zarg, where four races are vying for the gems and ores buried there. The four races are: the Habbish, who dig quickly and have high endurance, yet are impatient and prone to wander off; Grablins, who dig the fastest, have good stamina but are weak fighters; Quarriors, who are slow diggers but strong fighters; and the F'Targs, who are mediocre but regain their health quickly. The player chooses one of the four races, then sends out five man teams to mine a region. There are 34 regions in all, with two accessible at the beginning of the game. Each region has an amount of money the player must amass in order to beat it and open up the adjacent territories. Time plays a role, as there is always a computer-controlled opposing race in the region, competing with the player to be the first to achieve the monetary goal.
The gameplay is similar in some ways to Lemmings, with the player issuing orders to his five miners, not directly controlling them.
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