Molehill Mountain

Many of you may be familiar with the Namco classic arcade game "Dig Dug" but were you aware that it was so successful that it spawned a mini-genre-fad of many other digging games or "Dig Dug clones"? Most of these were direct clones of the original for home computers and other competing video game systems, but Kazutoshi Ueda, working then for Japanese arcade giant Universal, made quite an impressi…