You've probably heard or Dig Dug, and if you were born before 1983, you might even remember seeing a bizarre, upbeat commercial for the game in movie theaters — but did you know that the video game ...
Plenty of video game makers have gone to great lengths to advertise their wares, and back in its early-'80s heyday, Atari went as far as getting Chubby Checker to record a song about Dig Dug, reports ...
It's not too uncommon to see some interesting relics unearthed from the 80's. Heck, just ask Microsoft, as it previously dug up a New Mexico landfill to confirm that, yes, Atari did bury millions of ...
Chubby Checker and computer technology just can't seem to get along. Decades before the 'Twist' singer sued the makers of an app that used his name as a euphemism for measuring genitalia, it turns out ...
When it comes musical icon Chubby Checker's 1980s jams, we didn't think anything - ANYTHING - would top his 1988 duet with The Fat Boys. But that was before word broke of a long-lost cassette tape ...
In 1983, a commercial for the classic arcade game Dig Dug played in movie theaters across the country. It was a spoof of cheesy sci-fi B-movies, complete with a couple of teens at “lovers’ lane” ...
A song about the Atari 1982 classic game Dig Dug has been discovered on a lost demo tape. Performed by rock n' roll legend Chubby Checker, the song was allegedly recorded for use in a commercial for ...
On Friday, Xbox Entertainment Studios (XES) released a trailer for Atari: Game Over, a feature-length documentary about Atari’s downfall after the 1983 North American video game crash. In April, Xbox ...