Dig Dug 2 is coming to the Amiga via JOTD!

Over the past few years we've had a number of quality releases by JOTD for the Amiga. We've had games such as Ms Pacman, Hyper Sports, Elevator Action, US Championship V'ball, Tetris 1200, Lock'N'Chase, and even my personal favourite Xevious 1200. Well while we wait for the upcoming Jail Break conversion that is soon to be finished, JOTD has announced he is now working on Dig Dug 2. A 1985 action video game developed and published by Namco for Japanese arcades as a sequel to the 1982 hit game Dig Dug.

Here's the latest developer notes from the EAB thread linked (here). "Another cool game I discovered on Namco Museum DS in 2008: Dig Dug 2. You can pump monsters till they explode, but you can also sink the ground where they're walking on, making even more points. 6809 game (I love them), but wasn't the easiest because ... Namco. Those guys should have taken coding lessons from Konami  I had to move some code from the IRQ to the main loop else it was crashing completely. Negative offsets that triggered a bug in my converter (never was seen before because it's so weird to code like that). Well, that's fixed now."

"That plus a task system that was a bitch to simulate, but the result is 100% playable like the original. No9 told he would redo the tunes (when he's done all the other ones I piled on him). The sounds are done but the video capture didn't get them (issues with WinUAE capture lately). Plus I played a good game here. 17 levels. Not bad."

And that's all there is to say about the game from the developer. But as soon as I find out more information nearer to release, this article will be properly updated. I can't wait :)