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"Cash you say? Does that taste good? I want some too!"

—Taizo Hori, Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits

Mr. Driller is a spin-off series to Namco's Dig Dug. First released in arcades in 1999 and on the PlayStation and Dreamcast in 2000, the game stars young Susumu Hori (the son of Dig Dug's protagonist Taizo Hori and Baraduke heroine Toby "Kissy" Masuyo) in a race to drill through multiple colored blocks as far as he can without running out of air or getting crushed. Falling blocks of the same color will meld together, and disappear if the resulting combination is more than four blocks long. Air capsules appear every so often, and must be picked up to ensure survival. There are other hazards, such as the aforementioned falling blocks, and "X" blocks which, if drilled, cover you in poisonous gas that takes away from your Oxygen Meter.

The series combines elements of a fast-action arcade game and a Puzzle Game, due to the importance of watching how the blocks will fall as your character descends further into the earth.

Games in the series:

Mr. Driller: Arcade, ported to the PlayStation and other platforms
Mr. Driller 2: Arcade, also ported to PC and Game Boy Advance
Mr. Driller G ("Mr. Driller Great"): Arcade, also ported to the PlayStation in 2001 (Japan only)
Mr. Driller A ("Mr. Driller Ace: Wonderful Pacteria"): Released in 2002 for the Game Boy Advance (Japan only)
Mr. Driller: Drill Land: Released in 2002 for the Nintendo Game Cube (Japan only)
Mr. Driller Drill Spirits: Released 2004 on the Nintendo DS, and first Mr. Driller game to be released overseas in 4 years.
Mr. Driller Online: Released in 2008 on Xbox Live Arcade
Mr. Driller W: Released 2009 for Wii Ware
Mr. Driller: Drill Till You Drop Released 2009 for DSiWare

Tropes used in Mr. Driller include:

Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male: Mostly seem in Mr. Driller G.
Action Girl: Anna Hottenmeyer.
A Fete Worse Than Death: Drill Land
Aloof Big Brother: Ataru Hori.
Ambiguous Gender: Anna Hottenmeyer.
Ambiguously Brown: Taizo Hori.
Art Shift: Depending on the Artist.
Badass Adorable: Susumu Hori Because he's the only courageous enough to go and chase a massive destruction drill heading to the very earth's core.
Badass yet Dysfunctional Family: Susumu's whole family.
Big Eater: Taizo searches for an underground restaurant in Drill Spirits.
Card-Carrying Villain: Dr. Manhole.
Cartoon Creature: The Undergrounders.
Competitive Balance
Critical Annoyance: When the player's Oxygen Meter drops below 30 percent. It often takes just long enough to get the next air capsule that the player's air is still below 30 percent, and the alarm still sounding.
Digging to China: If all else fails, just drill deeper!
Falling Blocks: All around you, hopefully not landing on your head in the process.
Indy Escape: The Drindy Adventure level in Mr. Driller Drill Land, which is basically a parody of Indiana Jones' movies.
- It is also possible to continue drilling downwards even as a falling block is bearing down right on top of you. In this case, the only thing that can save you is reaching the end of the stage or if the block combines with a same-colored block and stops falling.
Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: The miniboss in the Hole of Druaga stage.
Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja: Keel Sark. Well...at least that's what his profile says.
Jack of All Stats: Susumu.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Anna stared out a Susumu's rival in Mr. Driller 2, she later teams up with him in later games.
Kid Hero
Luck-Based Mission: The Star Driller stage, only if you keep hitting the "?" blocks.
Mineral MacGuffin: The Dristones.
Missing Mom: After getting divorced from Taizo. Masuyo (the heroine from Baraduke) left home and since then she's rarely heard about. She makes a few cameos in the games thou.
Non-Human Sidekick: Puchi and Usagi.
Parental Neglect: Taizo Hori, you really have to wonder if he really cares about his children, he rather be spending time with his precious camels.
Punch Clock Villain: The Ankoku Drillers, one of them even being a Minion with an F In Evil.
Older Than They Look: Ataru is 17 years old? Seriously?
One-Hit-Point Wonder: Though, given the "hit" in question is from large rocks/chunks of earth falling on you, this is perhaps justified. A few characters, such as the mining robot Holinger-Z, can survive one hit like this before dying.
Oxygen Meter
One of the Boys: Anna Hottenmeyer...hell, even her friends keep mistaking her for a boy.
Schmuck Bait: Any time an air capsule is surrounded on all four sides by "X" blocks (which is a good half of them). Newbies quickly learn that attempting to drill through them negates the capsule's benefit, requiring them to drill around the blocks to open it up another way.
Sequel Difficulty Spike: Flashing "crystal" blocks were introduced in Mr. Driller 2, which spontaneously disappear after a few seconds, sometimes triggering chain reactions. Later games also introduced round "white" blocks, which don't combine with any other blocks and simply fall straight down.
Sibling Team: Susumu and Ataru.
Soundtrack Dissonance: Holy Dream playing in the Night Horror House stage.
Shout-Out: Basically most of Drill Land's stages:
- Star Driller is a shout out of the Star Trigon arcade game.
- The Hole of Druaga being a tribute to Namco's The Tower of Druaga (not to be confused with the anime), you can even see an small cameo of Gilgamesh and Ki.
- Drindy Adventure definitely being a shout out of Indiana Jones movies.
Super-Deformed
Susumu Can Breathe In Space
Talking Animal: Puchi.
Terrible Trio: The Ankoku Drillers.
The Magnificent Seven Samurai
- Susumu
- Anna
- Puchi
- Taizo
- Ataru
- Usagi
- Holinger Z
The Rival: Anna, who's obsessed about being a better driller than Susumu.
They Called Me Mad: Dr. Manhole, he was acussed of stealing Dr. Z's inventions. Which he didn't.
This Is a Drill
Troubled but Cute: Ataru, even if he's depicted as the Lone wolf character, there are few hints showing that he still misses his family.
Tunnel King: Susumu Hori
Underground Level: All of them!
Villainous Crush: One of the Ankoku Drillers, Eguri, has a big crush on Ataru, and she's not afraid to show it.
X Meets Y: Dig Dug meets Tetris.

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+''Mr. Driller'' is a spin-off series to Namco's ''[[Dig Dug]]''. First released in arcades in 1999 and on the [[PlayStation]] and [[Dreamcast]] in 2000, the game stars young Susumu Hori (the son of ''[[Dig Dug]]'''s protagonist Taizo Hori and ''Baraduke'' heroine Toby "Kissy" Masuyo) in a race to drill through multiple colored blocks as far as he can without running out of air or getting crushed. Falling blocks of the same color will meld together, and disappear if the resulting combination is more than four blocks long. Air capsules appear every so often, and must be picked up to ensure survival. There are other hazards, such as the aforementioned falling blocks, and "X" blocks which, if drilled, cover you in poisonous gas that takes away from your [[Oxygen Meter]].
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-''Mr. Driller'' is a spin-off series to Namco's ''[[Dig Dug]]''. First released in arcades in 1999 and on the [[Play Station]] and [[Dreamcast]] in 2000, the game stars young Susumu Hori (the son of ''[[Dig Dug]]'''s protagonist Taizo Hori and ''Baraduke'' heroine Toby "Kissy" Masuyo) in a race to drill through multiple colored blocks as far as he can without running out of air or getting crushed. Falling blocks of the same color will meld together, and disappear if the resulting combination is more than four blocks long. Air capsules appear every so often, and must be picked up to ensure survival. There are other hazards, such as the aforementioned falling blocks, and "X" blocks which, if drilled, cover you in poisonous gas that takes away from your [[Oxygen Meter]].
 The series combines elements of a fast-action arcade game and a [[Puzzle Game]], due to the importance of watching how the blocks will fall as your character descends further into the earth.
 === Games in the series: ===
-* ''Mr. Driller'': Arcade, ported to the [[Play Station]] and other platforms
+* ''Mr. Driller'': Arcade, ported to the [[PlayStation]] and other platforms
 * ''Mr. Driller 2'': Arcade, also ported to PC and [[Game Boy]] Advance
-* ''Mr. Driller G'' ("Mr. Driller Great"): Arcade, also ported to the [[Play Station]] in 2001 (Japan only)
+* ''Mr. Driller G'' ("Mr. Driller Great"): Arcade, also ported to the [[PlayStation]] in 2001 (Japan only)
 * ''Mr. Driller A'' ("Mr. Driller Ace: Wonderful Pacteria"): Released in 2002 for the Game Boy Advance (Japan only)
 * ''Mr. Driller: Drill Land'': Released in 2002 for the Nintendo [[Game Cube]] (Japan only)
-* ''Mr. Driller '''[[Super Title Sixty Four Advance|D]]'''[[Super Title Sixty Four Advance|rill]] '''[[Super Title Sixty Four Advance|S]]'''[[Super Title Sixty Four Advance|pirits]]'': Released 2004 on the [[Nintendo DS]], and first Mr. Driller game to be released overseas in 4 years.
+* ''Mr. Driller '''[[Super Title 64 Advance|D]]'''[[Super Title 64 Advance|rill]] '''[[Super Title 64 Advance|S]]'''[[Super Title 64 Advance|pirits]]'': Released 2004 on the [[Nintendo DS]], and first Mr. Driller game to be released overseas in 4 years.
-* ''Mr. Driller Online'': Released in 2008 on [[X Box]] Live Arcade
+* ''Mr. Driller Online'': Released in 2008 on [[Xbox]] Live Arcade
 * ''Mr. Driller W'': Released 2009 for [[Wii Ware]]
-* ''Mr. Driller: Drill Till You Drop'' Released 2009 for [[D Si Ware]]
+* ''Mr. Driller: Drill Till You Drop'' Released 2009 for [[DSiWare]]
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+{{tropelist}}
-== Tropes used in Mr. Driller: ==
 * [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Mostly seem in Mr. Driller G.
 * [[Action Girl]]: Anna Hottenmeyer.
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 * [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Anna Hottenmeyer.
 * [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Taizo Hori.
-* [[Art Shift]]: [[Depending On the Artist]].
+* [[Art Shift]]: [[Depending on the Artist]].
 * [[Badass Adorable]]: Susumu Hori {{spoiler|Because he's the only courageous enough to go and chase a massive destruction drill heading to the very ''earth's core''}}.
 * [[Badass Family|Badass]] [[Dysfunctional Family|yet Dysfunctional Family]]: Susumu's whole family.
 * [[Big Eater]]: Taizo searches for an underground restaurant in Drill Spirits.
-* [[Card Carrying Villain]]: Dr. Manhole.
+* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Dr. Manhole.
 * [[Cartoon Creature]]: The Undergrounders.
 * [[Competitive Balance]]
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 * [[Indy Escape]]: The Drindy Adventure level in ''Mr. Driller Drill Land'', which is basically a parody of Indiana Jones' movies.
 ** It is also possible to continue drilling downwards even as a falling block is bearing down right on top of you. In this case, the only thing that can save you is reaching the end of the stage or if the block combines with a same-colored block and stops falling.
-* [[Instant Awesome Just Add Dragons]]: The miniboss in the Hole of Druaga stage.
+* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]: The miniboss in the Hole of Druaga stage.
-* [[Instant Awesome Just Add Ninja]]: Keel Sark. Well...at least that's what his profile says.
+* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]: Keel Sark. Well...at least that's what his profile says.
 * [[Jack of All Stats]]: ''Susumu''.
-* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: Anna stared out a Susumu's rival in Mr. Driller 2, she later teams up with him in later games.
+* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Anna stared out a Susumu's rival in Mr. Driller 2, she later teams up with him in later games.
 * [[Kid Hero]]
-* [[Luck Based Mission]]: The Star Driller stage, only if you keep hitting the "?" blocks.
+* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: The Star Driller stage, only if you keep hitting the "?" blocks.
 * [[Mineral MacGuffin]]: The Dristones.
 * [[Missing Mom]]: After getting divorced from Taizo. Masuyo (the heroine from Baraduke) left home and since then she's rarely heard about. She makes a few cameos in the games thou.
+* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]: Puchi and Usagi.
-* [[No Export for You]]: Most of the best Mr. Driller games never saw light outside of Japan, its 99% guaranteed that no one knew that Susumu had a brother, or that his dad was actually Dig Dug until the release of ''Drill Spirits''.
-** Then again, it ''is'' Namco. The [[No Export for You]] article uses the company's name as a [[Skyward Scream]] for a reason.
-* [[Non Human Sidekick]]: Puchi and Usagi.
 * [[Parental Neglect]]: Taizo Hori, you really have to wonder if he really cares about his children, he rather be spending time with his precious ''camels''.
-* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: The Ankoku Drillers, one of them even being a [[Minion With an F In Evil]].
+* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: The Ankoku Drillers, one of them even being a [[Minion with an F In Evil]].
 * [[Older Than They Look]]: Ataru is 17 years old? ''Seriously?''
-* [[One Hit Point Wonder]]: Though, given the "hit" in question is from large rocks/chunks of earth falling on you, this is perhaps justified. A few characters, such as the mining robot Holinger-Z, can survive one hit like this before dying.
+* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: Though, given the "hit" in question is from large rocks/chunks of earth falling on you, this is perhaps justified. A few characters, such as the mining robot Holinger-Z, can survive one hit like this before dying.
 * [[Oxygen Meter]]
 * [[One of the Boys]]: Anna Hottenmeyer...hell, even her friends keep mistaking her for a boy.
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 * [[Sibling Team]]: Susumu and Ataru.
 * [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: ''Holy Dream'' playing in the Night Horror House stage.
-* [[Shout Out]]: Basically most of Drill Land's stages:
+* [[Shout-Out]]: Basically most of Drill Land's stages:
 ** Star Driller is a shout out of the Star Trigon arcade game.
 ** The Hole of Druaga being a tribute to Namco's ''The Tower of Druaga'' (not to be confused with the anime), you can even see an small cameo of Gilgamesh and Ki.
 ** Drindy Adventure definitely being a shout out of Indiana Jones movies.
-* [[Super Deformed]]
+* [[Super-Deformed]]
 * [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|Susumu Can Breathe In Space]]
 * [[Talking Animal]]: Puchi.
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