Arcade, PC-8000 series, Apple II, Game Boy, Super Famicom, Windows, Mobile
Release
PC-8000 series
JP: 1979[1]
Arcade
JP: November 1979[2]
NA: September 1980[2]
Genre(s)
Maze
Mode(s)
Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade system
Dual (clone)
Heiankyo Alien (平安京エイリアン, Heian-kyō Eirian), known as Digger in North America,[2] is a maze video game created by The University of Tokyo's Theoretical Science Group (TSG) in 1979.[1][3] The game was originally developed and released as a personal computer game in 1979, and was then published by Denki Onkyō Corporation (電気音響株式会社, Denki Onkyō Kabushiki Gaisha) as an arcade game[1] in November 1979.[2] In 1980, the arcade game was released in North America as Digger by Sega-Gremlin,[2] with minor changes in appearance.[4]
The game was a commercial success in Japan, where it was among the top ten highest-grossing arcade games of 1979[5] and 1980. The game has been ported to several other gaming systems since its original release. It was an early example of a maze chase game, predating Namco's Pac-Man (1980). It also began a genre of games about digging holes and luring enemies into traps, variously called "trap 'em up" or "digging" games, which includes titles such as Space Panic (1980) and Lode Runner (1983).
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^ abcdefAkagi, Masumi (13 October 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. pp. 98, 131. ISBN 978-4990251215.
^"G-mode Press Release". G-Mode. Archived from the original on July 3, 2007. Retrieved 2008-07-31.
^"Digger Videogame by Sega/Gremlin (1980)". International Arcade Museum. Retrieved 2008-07-31.
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