Ah Diddums

Ah Diddums is a single-player action game set across 99 levels. Teddy is trapped inside the central box of a nested set of toy-boxes and must pile building bricks in the correct order to create steps and progress.

Each top-down level contains scattered bricks, objects, weapons, and patrolling toys. Teddy must take toys to a crying baby, but calming her causes the mother to turn out the light. Contact with the other toys is lethal, while weapons such as the pea-shooter can be used against them. Defeating every other toy brings in an invincible lump of plasticine.

Teddy's jack-in-the-box companion can briefly frighten the other toys into remaining still. The game uses keyboard controls for movement, object collection, weapon fire, and pausing.

Game Details

• Developer: David H. Lawson
• Publisher: Imagine Software Ltd
• Release date: December 31, 1982
• Genres: Action, Arcade
• Platforms: Commodore C64/128/MAX, PC (Microsoft Windows), Sinclair ZX Spectrum, ZX Spectrum