“Both of these screens end with Dig Dug dying.”

A fun video by Power Pak about the “attract mode” in a vintage videogame Dig Dug: The attract mode played on a loop when the game was left alone in the arcade, waiting for a customer. From the name, you might assume it was just there to lure a passerby – show a fun logo, a few snippets of the game, some signature special effects and occasionally even sounds. The video argues that for Dig Dug any many other games it was a lot more than that, with its recorded sample gameplay chosen very intentionally to achieve a few goals: Reaching you how to play Showing you advanced tactics Taunting you to do better The video then compares it to a few games that didn’t do such a great job, and even some modern games.#games #history #onboarding #youtube

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