Diamonds

Diamonds is a 1-player arcade game for the 8-bit Atari.

Help Digger Dan dig through the earth to gather all the diamonds over 64 levels. Digger Dan can move horizontally and vertically, but he will fall if he is in a shaft more than 1 square wide. He can also only move upwards in virgin dirt or a shaft 1 square wide. Brian the Blob constantly chases the player, while other monsters either follow Dan's shaft or move randomly about the level. The player can dig underneath rocks, but these will soon fall, crushing anything beneath them. The player starts with 3 lives, and it's game over if all are lost.