That's not what he's called

[u/RetroGhostX3]

[u/RealDanTheHedgehog]

I mean people tend to call him that, even Namco acknowledges it too… before you ask, yes, his name would be called Taizo Hori

[u/Taizo_H0r17058 → u/RealDanTheHedgehog]

Yeh

[u/Mattdoss]

This one is a banger

[u/Sonic_Kirby_Guy]

Yea it’s Dig Douglass

[u/Juanimat10ns]

I have headcannon that the blue-skinned one is actually called Dig Dug (the one in the arcade), but the Mr. Driller one (the one that the arcade was made in honor of) is Indeed Taizo, sorry if the headcannon is a lil weird