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Back in the days before Al Gore invented the internet, we gamers had no way to watch videos of games we were anticipating on demand. The only real way to take a look at a game in motion was to go to the local Sears, Service Merchandise, or [insert name of West-coast store] and hope that a copy of the game was in the preview machine there. Sure, we could watch our Saturday morning cartoons and hope to catch a commercial with a few seconds of gameplay, but those were our only options. Back in those wild days, what could any game publisher do to get their game into the wide palms and sweaty eyes of consumers?

My friends, Dig Dug had the answer.

Namco released what can only be described as a trailer for their new game. Instead of the paltry 30 seconds of most game commercials, Dig Dug's epic adver-tainment clocks in at 2:24, a Burning of the Red Lotus Temple in a world of Critics. It takes place simultaneously in the War Room from Dr. Strangelove, a nearby farm, 50 miles away in Japan, in Harrison Ford's car, and in a dance club where everyone is doing a Dig Dug dance. The trailer also set the bar for a ratio between filler and actual gameplay footage.

We can only hope that the marketing blitz with the possible new Dig Dug is as phenomenal.

Some Highlights:

:27 - In my head, every laboratory looks like this one.
:37 - I was worried about the "serious problems," but this makes me feel a little better.
:51 - The DIG DUG dance! I remember that sweeping the nation in the 80s, along with the Asteroi-mamba and the Custer's Revenge rape waltz.
1:27 - "Where are your women now?" God, I love the 80s.
1:40 - Well, at least pumping up the front of the car does absolutely no damage to the engine.
2:13 - Nothing ends a trailer like weird gay sexual tension.