Sorry if I may offended some of you about that message I posted yesterday. I was in a really bad mood when I began playing zig zag and all it did was make matters worse. Not thinking, I sent the message when normally after I write one like that, I usually end up deleting it. In the future, I'm just not going to let it bother me. If I find a clone of a good game that happens to suck, I just won't play it anymore. In the case of zig zag, I'll stick to Dig Dug instead. :)

Regards, Steve Krogman

PS I see Aquatarkus took a shot at playing it. He managed to pull ahead of Angry and myself. Bravo! I wonder if he thinks a 500K game is possible now that he's played it.

-- stephen krogman (skrogman@concentric.net), June 16, 1999

Answers

Let me know who or where I can get it, I'll do your 500k.

-- Chris Parsley (cparsley1@hotmail.com), June 17, 1999.

Chris,

Try www.arcadeathome.com........... ;-)

BeeJay.

-- BeeJay (bjohnstone@cardinal.co.nz), June 17, 1999.

I'd watched Angry's recording before actually, but I wasn't into Dig Dug at all at the time. It's very different playing Dig Dug without feeling compelled to count rocks and grab fruit... but some poor programming really hurts this game. Because the game seems to have the sort of pattern demands that the real game has, I think 500k is technically possible. However, without the bonus points for multiple rock kills or fruit it's going to take a very long time...at least 100 rounds. Put aside 1 or 2 bucks a week and you'll have the $100 before someone wins it.

Aqua

-- Aquatarkus (aquatarkus@digicron.com), June 17, 1999.