Put On Your Hardhat And Go For The Gold With Diggers(TM), A Ground-Breaking New Game From Millennium Media Group.PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--December 7, 1994--Treasures abound as you unearth hundreds of hours of fun with Diggers Diggers, members of a small English religio-economic movement (fl. 1649–50), so called because they attempted to dig (i.e., cultivate) the wastelands. They were an offshoot of the more important group of Puritan extremists known as the Levelers. , a fast-paced strategy/adventure game from Millennium Media Group. In Diggers, players mine the alien planet Alien Planet is a roughly 1¾ hour special on Discovery Channel about two Internationally built robot probes investigating for alien life on the fictional planet Darwin IV. Zarg while overcoming its natural obstacles, hidden dangers and the underhanded tactics of rival mining forces. Featuring 34 game levels with quirky animated characters and stunning color backgrounds, Diggers lets players explore one of the largest playing fields of any computer game, totaling hundreds of feet in "virtual" screen size. The CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). version also includes an original CD-quality soundtrack and digitized speech. "Diggers is a true diamond in the rough. Players are offered so many game options, they may never experience the same scenario twice," said Jeff Cain, senior producer at Millennium. "What gives Diggers its real depth is that, rather than blasting your way through the game, you must outsmart out·smart tr.v. out·smart·ed, out·smart·ing, out·smarts To gain the advantage over by cunning; outwit. outsmart Verb Informal same as outwit Verb 1. your opponents to win." The objective of Diggers is to gather enough gems and gold -- using pure mining skill or brute force (programming) brute force - A primitive programming style in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly -- to fulfill the quota for each level. But watch out! The unscrupulous rival miners are after your loot as well and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means planting your diggers six feet under. The gems are added to your bank account or used to buy better mining equipment such as tunnelers to help diggers dig faster, bridges to traverse lakes, and telepoles to carry them to faraway depths. Players control a team of five diggers chosen from one of four alien species with specialized mining skills. The computer controls one of the other three races and competes against the player's team. An easy to use graphical Click & Play(TM) control palette lets players command their diggers to walk, jump, dig or pick up objects without the need to memorize mem·o·rize tr.v. mem·o·rized, mem·o·riz·ing, mem·o·riz·es 1. To commit to memory; learn by heart. 2. Computer Science To store in memory: any command or key sequences. A status bar located at the bottom of the screen allows players to keep track of their diggers' locations, actions and health; check inventory and accumulated wealth; switch mining equipment; and access the online game guide. It even tells players which team has the most jewels -- useful information for planning raids on rival diggers! System Requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. Diggers requires a 386 IBM-compatible PC A PC that is compatible with the IBM PC and PS/2 standards. Although this term is still used, it had validity in the early days when PC makers were trying to copy the IBM PC, and many PCs were not compatible. Today, PCs conform to standards set by Intel, Microsoft and the PC industry at large. with DOS 3.1 or higher to operate. Diggers can also be installed and launched using Windows. Both the CD-ROM and floppy disk version require 524 kilobytes (K) of available base memory. The floppy disk version requires seven megabytes of hard disk space and the CD-ROM version requires no hard disk space other than 2 K for saved games and file configuration. Both formats require a mouse and an IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) VGA (Video Graphics Array) The display standard for the PC. All PC display adapters support VGA, and Windows machines boot up in "VGA mode" before switching to higher resolutions. or compatible monitor, and support a wide range of popular sound cards including SoundBlaster. Availability and Pricing Diggers has previously been available in Europe since December, 1993 in the Amiga A personal computer series introduced in 1985 by Commodore. Amigas gained a reputation early on as advanced graphics and multimedia machines, and NewTek's Video Toaster application brought it to the forefront of economical, high-end video editing. CD32 format, and has been hailed as a totally addictive and stunningly original masterpiece. European sales of Diggers have topped 100,000 units. In the U.S., the game is now available on enhanced PC CD-ROM for a suggested retail price of $49.95 and floppy disk for $39.95 through traditional computer and software retailers, and direct from Millennium (for orders call 1-800-U WANT IT). Millennium Titles Diggers is the first of many new CD-ROM titles to be released by Millennium bearing the Electri-CD-ROM(TM) logo. The company has an aggressive product introduction schedule, and plans to release five new titles by the end of first quarter, 1995 and 18 titles by the end of that year. The Company Formed in 1993, Millennium Media Group is a Philadelphia-based publisher and developer of innovative multimedia titles in the education and entertainment categories. Millennium actively seeks out and partners with software developers worldwide, providing hands-on product development support in addition to traditional publishing, marketing and distribution services. Currently, Millennium has entered into agreements with software developers from the U.S., Israel, France and the United Kingdom.
CONTACT: Technology Solutions, Inc. Millennium Media Group
Audrey Mann, Eric Sokolsky L. Robert Weissman
212/696-2000 215/625-8888
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