History VideoGame / MrDriller

* TheMagnificentSevenSamurai
** Susumu
** Anna
** Puchi
** Taizo
** Ataru
** Usagi
** Holinger Z

* Winged Soul Flies Off at Death: When a playable character dies in the series. In Drill Spirits in a score counter after each session, the number of times your character died during a drill session is symbolized by an angel.

''Mr. Driller'' is a spin-off series to Namco's ''VideoGame/DigDug''. First released in arcades in 1999 and on the UsefulNotes/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 2'': Arcade, also ported to PC and UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance

* ''Mr. Driller: Drill Land'': Released in 2002 for the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube (Japan only). Had an HD remake released worldwide for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and PC on June 25, 2020.
* ''Mr. Driller '''[[SuperTitleSixtyFourAdvance D]]'''[[SuperTitleSixtyFourAdvance rill]] '''[[SuperTitleSixtyFourAdvance S]]'''[[SuperTitleSixtyFourAdvance pirits]]'': Released 2004 on the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS, and first Mr. Driller game to be released overseas in 4 years.
* ''Mr. Driller Online'': Released in 2008 on UsefulNotes/XBoxLiveArcade
* ''Mr. Driller W'': Released 2009 for UsefulNotes/WiiWare
* ''Mr. Driller: Drill Till You Drop'' Released 2009 for UsefulNotes/DSiWare

* CriticalAnnoyance: When the player's OxygenMeter 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.

* Winged Soul Flies off at Death: When a playable character dies in the series.

* DiggingToChina: If all else fails, just drill deeper!
** Can happen literally in ''World Drill Tour'', as China is one of the countries that can be visited.

* SequelDifficultySpike: 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.

* CartoonCreature: The Undergrounders.

* AFeteWorseThanDeath: ''Drill Land'' takes place in an amusement park built by Flüid, [[spoiler:who is actually Dr. Manhole in disguise.]]

* [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace Susumu Can Breathe In Space]]

* TerribleTrio: The Ankoku Drillers.
* TheyCalledMeMad: Dr. Manhole, he was acussed of stealing Dr. Z's inventions. Which he [[WrongfulAccusationInsurance didn't]].

* TunnelKing: Susumu Hori
* UndergroundLevel: All of them!

* AFeteWorseThanDeath: ''Drill Land'' takes place in an amusement park built by Flüid, who is actually Dr. Manhole in disguise.

* AloofBigBrother: Ataru Hori.
* AmbiguousGender: Anna Hottenmeyer.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Taizo Hori.

* AFeteWorseThanDeath: ''Drill Land''

* 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.

* OxygenMeter: Every Driller has one which drains as they dig deeper and deeper into the underground world. In Dristone Driller, the Oxygen meteor doesn't drop at a steady rate, but instead drops by 1% for every time the player drills.

* SiblingTeam: Susumu and Ataru.

* TalkingAnimal: Puchi.

* ThisIsADrill

* ArtShift: ''A'' and every game thereafter excluding ''Drill Till You Drop'' altered the general art style to de-chibi everyone by making them taller and with blockier limbs.

* CompetitiveBalance: Excluding Susumu, who has perfectly balanced stats across the board and no gimmicks, the Drillers all sport tradeoffs between their movement speed and air consumption rate- slower characters geared for beginners come with special abilities and chew through air slower, while faster characters either run and/or drill faster- at the cost of high air consumption.

* BulletTime: The Gravity effect from the ? blocks in ''Star Driller'' will slow down the motion of the blocks while still allowing the player to move at normal speed.

* ContinuityNod: The first countries visited on each difficulty level in ''Drill Land'''s World Drill Tour are the same countries that the player can choose between in ''2''/''G'' (India, USA, Egypt, North Pole). The difficulty of each level is equivalent to the respective stage in ''2''/''G''.

* ContinuityNod: The first countries visited on each difficulty level in ''Drill Land'''s World Drill Tour are the same countries that the player can choose between in ''2''/''G'', and the difficulty will be equivalent to that respective ''2''/''G'' stage, with India being the easiest and North Pole being the hardest.

* MarathonLevel: ''Drill Land''[='=]s Hole of Druaga on the Special levels. Despite being endless, it is possible to get a clear stamp, but it takes literal ''hours''. The requirement is 3,000,000 points, which takes about ''150'' sections to get.

* DoWellButNotPerfect: It ''Drill Land'''s Star Driller, it can be beneficial to intentionally get sucked into the black holes or abducted by the [=UFOs=] when going for a high score.