History VideoGame / MrDriller

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: The miniboss in the Hole of Druaga stage.

* ActionGirl: Anna Hottenmeyer.

* ArtShift: DependingOnTheArtist.
* BadassAdorable: 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'']].
* [[BadassFamily Badass]] [[DysfunctionalFamily yet Dysfunctional Family]]: Susumu's whole family.
* BigEater: Taizo searches for an underground restaurant in Drill Spirits.

* ''Mr. Driller: Drill Land'': Released in 2002 for the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube (Japan only). Had an HD remake released worldwide for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch in 2020.

* ''Mr. Driller: Drill Land'': Released in 2002 for the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube (Japan only)

* EndlessGame: Mr. Driller G introduced an endless Space level where unlike the other levels, there is no goal depth, and the player tries to go as deep as possible before they run out of lives.

* EndlessGame: Mr. Driller G introduced an endless Space level where there is no goal depth and the player plays until they run out of lives.

* EndlessGame: Mr. Driller G introduced an endless mode.

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

* MissingMom: After getting divorced from Taizo. Masuyo (the heroine from ''VideoGame/Baraduke'') left home and since then she's rarely heard about. She makes a few cameos in the games thou.

* XMeetsY: ''Dig Dug meets Tetris''.

* ''Mr. Driller '''[[SuperTitleSixtyFourAdvance D]]'''[[SuperTitleSixtyFourAdvance rill]] '''[[SuperTitleSixtyFourAdvance S]]'''[[SuperTitleSixtyFourAdvance pirits]]'': Released 2004 on the NintendoDS, 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 WiiWare

* CompetitiveBalance

* FallingBlocks: All around you, hopefully not landing on your head in the process.

* IndyEscape: The Drindy Adventure level in ''Mr. Driller Drill Land'', which is basically a parody of Indiana Jones' movies.

* JackOfAllStats: ''Susumu''.

* KidHero

* MineralMacGuffin: The Dristones in ''A(ce)''[='=]s story mode, ''Drill Land''[='=]s Hole of Druaga, and JP/EU ''Drill Spirits''[='=] Dristone Driller
* MissingMom: 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.
* NonHumanSidekick: Puchi and Usagi.
* ParentalNeglect: Taizo Hori, you really have to wonder if he really cares about his children, he rather be spending time with his precious ''camels''.
* PunchClockVillain: The Ankoku Drillers, one of them even being a MinionWithAnFInEvil.

* OxygenMeter

* TheRival: Anna, who's obsessed about being a better driller than Susumu.

* SchmuckBait: 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.

** 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.

* SuperDeformed

* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: Keel Sark. Well...at least that's what his profile says.

''Mr. Driller'' is a spin-off series to Namco's ''VideoGame/DigDug''. First released in arcades in 1999 and on the PlayStation and [[UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast Dreamcast]] in 2000, the game stars young Susumu Hori (the son of ''VideoGame/DigDug'''s protagonist Taizo Hori and ''VideoGame/{{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 OxygenMeter.

* ''Mr. Driller'': Arcade, ported to the PlayStation and other platforms
* ''Mr. Driller 2'': Arcade, also ported to PC and GameBoy Advance
* ''Mr. Driller G'' ("Mr. Driller Great"): Arcade, also ported to the PlayStation in 2001 (Japan only)

* ''Mr. Driller: Drill Till You Drop'' Released 2009 for DSiWare

''Mr. Driller'' is a spin-off series to Namco's ''VideoGame/DigDug''. First released in arcades in 1999 and on the PlayStation and {{Dreamcast}} in 2000, the game stars young Susumu Hori (the son of ''VideoGame/DigDug'''s protagonist Taizo Hori and ''VideoGame/{{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 OxygenMeter.

''Mr. Driller'' is a spin-off series to Namco's ''VideoGame/DigDug''. First released in arcades in 1999 and on the PlayStation and {{Dreamcast}} in 2000, the game stars young Susumu Hori (the son of ''VideoGame/DigDug'''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 OxygenMeter.

''Mr. Driller'' is a spin-off series to Namco's ''DigDug''. First released in arcades in 1999 and on the PlayStation and {{Dreamcast}} in 2000, the game stars young Susumu Hori (the son of ''DigDug'''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 OxygenMeter.

* ''Mr. Driller: Drill Land'': Released in 2002 for the Nintendo GameCube (Japan only)

* LuckBasedMission: The Star Driller stage, only if you keep hitting the "?" blocks.

* MineralMacGuffin: The Dristones.

* SecretCharacter: In ''Drill Spirits'', the entire cast minus Susumu must be unlocked through Mission Driller, [[spoiler:which extends to Usagi/Rabbit in non-American versions.]]

* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: Mostly seem in Mr. Driller G.

* AFeteWorseThanDeath: ''Drill Land''

* TheMagnificentSevenSamurai
** Susumu
** Anna
** Puchi
** Taizo
** Ataru
** Usagi
** Holinger Z
* TheRival: Anna, who's obsessed about being a better driller than Susumu.

* NoExportForYou: 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 NoExportForYou article uses the company's name as a SkywardScream for a reason.