Trivia / Mr. Driller

• Acting for Two: Mitsuko Horie voices Susumu Hori, Anna Hottenmeyer, and Puchi.
• Actor Allusion: This isn’t the first time Toshio Furukawa voiced a character named Ataru.
• Bad Export for You: The American version of Drill Spirits, which drops Rabbit/Usagi as a playable character, removes two stages (South Pole^note Endless without powerups, becomes Outer Space in the US version, which originally had powerups in the JP/EU versions, and The Moon^note 2000m with powerups), and cuts the Dristone Driller mode (based on the gameplay of Mr. Driller A's story mode and The Hole of Druaga in Drill Land). It also disabled single Game Card Driller Race, requiring all players to own a copy of Drill Spirits to race each other in the US version.
  • The Game Boy Color version of Mr Driller allowed players to save their high scores... but only in Japan. For the west, Namco opted to release the game on a SRAM-less cartridge, most likely to reduce the cost, thus depriving the european and american versions of a save feature. It can be restored thanks to modifications, but it's obviously imposible on an actual cartridge.
• No Export for You: Most of the best Mr. Driller games^note G, and A(ce) 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.
  • Subverted with Drill Land. The original GameCube release was never localized, but its remaster on Switch was. Even so, the physical release was limited to Japan.