Pick Axe Pete!

aka: Didi na Mina Encantada!, Gold Rush, Guldgraveren, Guldgrävar-Joe, Hakku-Pete, Houwelen Henkie, Il Piccone Magico, Pedrito Piqueta, Pedro Picareta, Peter Tête de Pioche, Pickaxe Pete, Pickel-Peter, Pierre et la Pioche!
Moby ID: 27849

Trivia

Brazilian Protagonist

This game was the first Brazilian licensed title. The Brazilian version (Didi na Mina Encantada!) has as its protagonist Didi Mocó Sonrisal Colesterol Novalgino Mufumbo (played by the Brazilian actor Renato Aragão), a character from the Brazilian TV comedy sketch show "Os Trapalhões", very popular in the '70s and '80s.

1982 World's Fair

During the 1982 World's Fair held in Knoxville, Tennessee a high score competition was held featuring this game and was called the "Pick Axe Pete Pick-Off". The winner of the competition was to be rewarded with one pound of gold, worth over $6,000.

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Trivia contributed by chirinea, Alaka, Pseudo_Intellectual.