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--- In nigglybits@yahoogroups.com, Jonathan Franklin <franklin@...> wrote:
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> OK, I remember a game I used to like that I don't think has been
> named. It was like Dig Dug in that it was a 2D cross section of the
> earth with the top having plants and bottom of the screen being deeper
> earth, but it was not Dig Dug. You were mining for gold and trying to
> get as much as you could. I think there were cave-ins and dynamite,
> but I don't recall any wandering monsters. The goal was to get as much
> gold as you could using certain tools and maybe you lost when you ran
> out of air or something like that.

Freya's Folly?

Oh, wait. That's a board game. Nevermind.




Fri Jul 3, 2009 11:40 pm

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