10 Facts About Mr Driller

Mr Driller is a puzzle video game franchise created by Yasuhito Nagaoka and Hideo Yoshizawa for Namco.

Nagaoka intended Mr Driller to be the third mainline entry in Namco's Dig Dug series.

Project Mr Driller was established as the development team for the series, which produced four sequels from 2000 to 2004.

Mr Driller series was popular in Japan and its characters have become synonymous with the Namco brand.

Mr Driller games are puzzle action games and have been described as a cross between Puyo Puyo and Dig Dug.

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Original Mr Driller was created by R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 director Yasuhito Nagaoka and former Tecmo employee Hideo Yoshizawa.

Mr Driller was ported to several platforms, including the Dreamcast, PlayStation, and Game Boy Color.

Third entry, Mr Driller G, was released in 2001 for arcades and later the PlayStation.

In Japan, the Mr Driller series was commercially and critically successful, and its characters have become synonymous with the Namco brand.

The Dreamcast conversion of Mr Driller received negative attention from the press for being technically inferior to Namco's previous Dreamcast offering, the 3D weapon-based fighter Soulcalibur.