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The Dig (Screenshots)

From the 1995 LucasArts adventure game, designed by Brian Moriarty and Sean Clark. Filed under: Screenshots, The Dig. Return to previous page or media home

Maggie Robbins never lets anyone else speak for her

Boston Low responds to a question about his value to the team

The shuttle hatch opens

The three crewmembers outside the shuttle

Cora Miles, the mission's payload specialist, on the PenUltimate handheld computer

The three astronauts and the Pig on Attila's surface

Inside the Pig, the mission's tool chest

A deep space radar station in Southeast Asia

A new object shows up on the tracking screen

The asteroid is definitely going to hit Earth

Title screen

Press conference before the shuttle launch

One nuclear device has been armed

Fiddling with an alien device

The asteroid overview, and the inventory screen

The shuttle flies away from the asteroid

The nuclear devices explode

The Pig descends into a crevice in the asteroid

The team realizes the asteroid's interior is proof of alien life

The core of the asteroid - a giant dodecahedral space

A platform with four metal plates around it

Placing the metal plates in the pedestal...to do what?

Low watches as the plates begin to glow and move

Light fills the core as the asteroid transforms into a crystal ship

The crystal starship flies out of our solar system

The starship touches down on an alien world

The crew examine their new environment

Low takes a look at the local flora

Brink tries to gain leadership of the team

Outside a crashed alien spaceship

A "ghost" being appears inside the derelict

The bottom of an unusable ramp out of the canyon

Another ghost appears, hovering over the dirt

Brink digs at the spot where the ghost hovered

Low tries to save Brink as the scientist falls down through a hole

Brink plummets to his death

Low tries to get a response from Brink

With Brink dead, Maggie takes off on her own

Inside the power control room for the area

Programming a robot to restore the power

Power flows up and down this column in the Nexus room

Low decides to use a green crystal in an attempt to revive Brink

A combination door lock; the correct symbols are found on colored rods

Talking to Maggie on the PenUltimate

A blue, spherical tram leads out from the Nexus area

The other end of the first tram line

A fork in the path; one leads up, the other down to the shore

Low looks at a "light bridge" he turned on

Inside the museum. Nice view!

Looking at a tablet taken from the museum

Talking with Maggie inside the "library"

Closeup of the green glowing crystal

Low's face is bathed in green light by the glowing crystal

Low breaks the crystal open

Brink's body is bathed in a green glow

Brink returns to life

Talking to the newly-living Brink

A turtle appears by the water's edge

Brink believes the crystals are a gift from the aliens

Low takes some of the crystals from the basin

Closeup of the crystals piled in the basin

A hungry alien eel shows up

Low runs for cover as the eel eats the turtle

The turtle's bones, spit back out upon the ground

Reassembling the turtle's bones (with added explosive to kill the eel)

Low watches the eel explode

Inside an underwater cavern

The second tram leads to this chamber

A cliffside path above the crashing waves

The waves rise, crashing against the sides of this gap

A second light-bridge has been turned on

An alien rodent scurries around this plateau

Low uses his shovel to dig up a machine part

Inside the planetarium dome

Using scepters to control the planetarium

An airlock in a crystalline underwater tunnel

An underwater tram control center

The planetarium display affects the movement of the moons

The two moons are now aligned in a special position with the planet

The planetarium tram returns to the Nexus

The third tram's terminal overlooking the sea

Fixing a tram

The light-bridge area in the tomb spire

A panel near the tomb light-bridge shows how to align the moons

Brink is getting more and more hostile

The outer tomb chamber, without much light coming in

Light from the eclipsing moons enters the tomb chamber

A magnificent statue of a Cocytan

Repairing the door lock to another tram

The fourth tram

A room with lots of bats flying around

Controls for the map display system

The map displays an image of the outer tomb

Repairing a light-bridge panel

The map spire light-bridge controls

Overview of the five spires

The outer tomb chamber; the statue has been destroyed

The crypt platform acts as an elevator down

A life crystal falls from a hole in the wall

The skeleton of a giant beast, about to be revived

The revived guardian beast blocks the door

Low has killed the guardian beast by reviving another one and causing a fight

A crystal pyramid located behind the sealed door in the tomb spire

Low talks to Maggie on the PenUltimate about this strange tomb

With the crystal pyramid lowered, Low can revive the alien

The Cocytan stands up

Low feels short in comparison to the Cocytan

The Cocytan speaks a language Low can't understand

Maggie examines the displays in the library

Maggie tells Low she can read the Cocytan language

Something moves in the background behind Maggie

Brink refuses to help Maggie willingly; Low will have to force him

Maggie catches sight of a giant monster behind her

Low's connection with Maggie is lost

Low looks anxiously at his PenUltimate

Low goes to find Brink, to enlist his help

Low and Brink confront the giant monster that abducted Maggie

Low needs to divert this waterfall in order to stop the monster

Low tells Maggie to unclog the grate near her, allowing water to hit the monster

Low shows the tablet from the museum to Maggie

The monster lunges upward at Low and Brink

Maggie pulls on the grate

Water bursts free from the opened grate

The monster is washed away by the water

The monster falls to its doom over a precipice

Brink robs Low of his life crystals

A strange field of light shimmers on this beach

Maggie has pulled an island back from another dimension

A metal plate spins in a cavern inside the island

Brink calls Low, panicked and asking for help

Brink's hand is stuck in this crevice in the rock

Low and Maggie arrive to help Brink

Brink explains his curious predicament

Low must use an alien jawbone to amputate Brink's hand

The fifth tram room

Brink grimaces in pain as his hand is cut off

Brink definitely looks unhealthy now

The final door in the Nexus is open

Brink has gone completely insane

A strange machine in the fifth spire

These gaps in this console need to be filled

Low must clear this nest away to activate the fifth light-bridge

Low and Maggie ride the crypt platform down

The Cocytan inventor is revived again

Maggie speaks to the alien inventor

Low examines the engraving the inventor gave them

Low uses the map device to find the missing piece for the machine

Crossing the treacherous path near the falls

Low locates the missing piece for the Eye generator

Brink steals more life crystals from Low and Maggie

Low tries to reason with Brink on the PenUltimate

Low uses the Eye part in Brink's life crystal machine

The gaps in the Eye console are filled

Brink tenses up, just before attacking Low

With Low knocked down, Brink searches for a weapon to kill him

Brink prepares to bash Low's head in with a stone

Brink loses his balance and falls over the cliffside

Low watches helplessly as Brink dies again

Low expresses remorse over Brink's death

Boston and Maggie talk things over before activating the Eye

Maggie examines one of the generator consoles

Maggie shouts to Low that she'll have to manually unseal the Eye generator

Low is worried that Maggie might get hurt

Maggie pries open the top of the Eye generator

Low watches in horror as Maggie is hit by an energy blast

Energy from the Eye strikes the crystal shape floating above the central island

Maggie lies dying as Low tells her the Eye has been opened

A guardian beast charges from the Eye toward Low

Low deactivates the light-bridge under the beast's feet

Low stands ready to enter the Eye

The portal to the aliens' higher dimension, Spacetime Six

Low gazes in wonder at the aliens' reality

A Cocytan appears to meet Boston Low

Cocytans return to their planet, and the world of linear time

Cocytans reappear across the planet

Cocytans reappear across the planet

The Cocytan leader returns Maggie and Brink to life

Boston and Maggie share a hug

Brink has aged a good deal of years

The trio enters a crystal starship headed for Earth

Low looks one last time at the Cocytan leader

An interspecies handshake - Low's way of saying goodbye

Alternate ending: Maggie is revived by a life crystal

Alternate ending: Low looks at the newly-revived Maggie

Alternate ending: Maggie slowly gets up

Alternate ending: Maggie stares with revulsion at Low

Alternate ending: Low kneels by the cliffside after watching Maggie commit suicide

Alternate ending: Low looks with sadness at an angry Maggie

Alternate ending: Low apologizes for breaking a promise not to revive Maggie

Demo: The crystal starship flies through space

Demo: The three astronauts on Cocytus

Demo: Standing next to the derelict ship

Demo: Inside the wreck

Demo: Base of the ruined ramp

Demo: The inventory

Demo: Low is about to dig where the second ghost pointed

Demo: The dying Brink raises one hand toward Low

Demo: The monster stands behind Maggie in the library

Demo: Inside Spacetime Six

Demo: The crystal ship leaves the solar system

Demo: Title screen

Ludger Brink discusses the plan to stop the asteroid

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