Taizo Hori

Taizo Hori, originally known as Dig Dug, is the main protagonist of the Dig Dug series and one of the major characters in the Mr. Driller series, being the founder of the Star Trigon Team as well as a member of the United Galaxy Space Force.

He is Japanese, with brown hair and dark brown eyes with thick eyebrows. His driller suit has a white helmet with red and blue. The suit is white with a red "V" shape on the front and a blue belt. There are blue gloves and red boots. He has brown spiked-back hair under the helmet.

Taizo is Susumu Hori's father and the main protagonist of the Dig Dug games. Taizo was once married to Toby Masuyo, but they divorced. He is the chairman of the Driller Council and solved the Dig Dug incident of 1982. Taizo now likes to go travelling around the world, and is rarely home, which often makes Susumu, his son, sad. Taizo, also a glory-seeker, sometimes becomes jealous of Susumu's popularity, since he believes he is the best driller (and won't waste a chance to brag about it). Despite these things, he has a good relationship with Susumu. His relationship with Ataru is strained, and while Taizo has nothing against him and will joke with him, he is still disliked by the elder son. Taizo has been gullible, as evident in one of his cutscenes for Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits, when he thought that money was food.