Lost In Translation/Mappy

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Mappy
Manufacturer	Namco
Released	1983
Control Method	2-way Joystick 1 Button(s)
Main CPU	(3x) M6809 (@ 1.536 MHz) M6809 (@ 1.536 MHz)
Sound CPU	Mono Namco 15XX (@ 24.000 kHz)
Video Details	Raster (Vertical) 288 x 224 pixels 60.61 Hz 512 Palette colours
Screens	1
ROM Info	11 ROMs 54,048 bytes (52.78 KiB)
MAME ID	mappy · mappyj

About The Game

Mappy is an arcade video game.

You are the MOUSE'S controlling force. It is up to you to direct him through the maze of floors and doors to gather his treasures. Your job is to develop CAT avoidance strategies to keep him away from his pursuers (the CATS), and to give him guidance while gathering his treasures.

These pursuers are very sneaky and, if given half a chance, will try to corner your MOUSE at the end of one of the platforms or to trap him on one of the floors he must use to get to the treasures he's after.

The MOUSE'S pursuers have no defense mechanisms of any kind. But they CANNOT be PERMANENTLY eliminated either. As soon as your MOUSE puts one pursuer out of commission, another appears somewhere else on the screen.

However, in an emergency, your MOUSE can slow one pursuer down for short periods of time. This is accomplished by having him throw open a standard door in his pursuers face to knock him down and stun him. When hit by the door, his pursuer will be stunned for several seconds. When he is disabled like this, the MOUSE can walk right by him and not be caught. To temporarily eliminate more than one pursuer at a time, you must catch them in the radar waves emitted when opening the thick flashing doors.

As your skill level increases, the number and direction of pursuers coming at your MOUSE at any one time and the speed with which they move, is gradually increased; plus, their pursuit patterns become more and more devious while their overall accuracy is highly improved.

Bonus MICE are awarded to you periodically throughout the game as you reach or pass certain preselected point values.

A Bonus Rack is awarded to you as your 3rd Rack and every 4th Rack thereafter i.e. in the 7th, 11th, 15th, 19th, etc. Racks.

When your MOUSE completes a Rack, the screen is cleared, the number of the next Rack is displayed in the center of the screen, the next Rack maze appears on the screen, your MOUSE appears at the bottom right hand corner of the screen, and play begins anew.

Trivia

Released in March 1983.

Licensed to Bally Midway for US manufacture and distribution (March 1983).

Mappy is the first game from Namco to include the "ALL RIGHTS RESERVED" on the titlescreen.

The mapping of the level counters in Mappy is a little strange; after level 49, the level symbols in the bottom right corner temporarily stop updating, but the numerical level counter and the high score display both record the proper level. The level symbols then start displaying correctly again at level 100 and continues to display correctly until level 254. Level 255 morphs into Level 0. Then the game starts over again and becomes easy again for level 1.

Mappy is likely derived from 'mappo', a Japanese slang term (slightly insulting) for a policeman.

Greg Bond holds the official record for this game with 658,160 points on June 27, 2002.

Tips and tricks

Easter Egg

1. Enter service mode.
2. Keep Left pressed to make the screen scroll left until the grid covers the whole screen.
3. Press the service switch 3 times (the one that adds a credit, not the one to enter service mode).
4. Keep Button 1 pressed and enter the following sequence : Left(x4), Start1(x6), Left(x3), Start2. '(c) 1983 NAMCO' will appear on the screen.

Easter Egg 2

1. Play the game and reach the third bonus round (the one after round 10).
2. Press Button1(x3), Start1(x3) and Start2(x3).

After the score of the bonus round is shown, this text will be added at the bottom of the screen : '(c) 1983 NAMCO ALL RIGHTS RESERVED'.

Series

1. Mappy (1983)
2. Hopping Mappy (1986)
3. Mappy Land (1986, Nintendo Famicom)

Staff

Music By

Nobuyuki Ohnogi

Cabinet and Artwork

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  Mappy arcade cabinet.

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  Mappy flyer.

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  Bally/Midway's Mappy flyer.

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  Back of Bally/Midway's Mappy flyer.

Ports

Consoles

Nintendo Famicom (1984)

Epoch corporation super cassette vision (1984)

Sega Game Gear (1991)

Nintendo Game Boy Color (1996, "Namco Gallery Vol.1")

Sony PlayStation (1996, "Namco Museum Vol.2")

Sony PlayStation 2 (2005, "Namco Museum 50th Anniversary")

Microsoft XBOX (2005, "Namco Museum 50th Anniversary")

Nintendo GameCube (2005, "Namco Museum 50th Anniversary")

Sony PSP (2005, "Namco Museum Battle Collection")

Computers

Fujitsu FM-7 (1983)

MSX (1984)

PC [MS Windows, CD-Rom] (1997, Namco History Vol.1")

PC [MS Windows, CD-Rom] (1998, "Microsoft Revenge of Arcade")

PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (2005, "Namco Museum 50th Anniversary")

Sord-M5

NEC PC-6001

NEC PC-8001

NEC PC-8801

NEC PC-9800 series

Sharp X1

Sharp MZ1200/1500

Sharp MZ2500

Sharp X68000

Others

LCD handheld game (19?? - MGA (Micro Games of America))

Arcade (1995, "Namco Classics Collection Vol.1")

Ms. Pac-Man TV Game (2004 - Jakk's Pacific)

Ms. Pac-Man TV Game Wireless Version (2005 - Jakk's Pacific)

Soundtrack Releases

Album Name	Catalogue No.	Released	Publisher	Comments
Video Game Music	YLR-20003	1984-04-25	Alfa	Vinyl version.
The Best of Video Game Music	32XA-66	1986-04-25	Alfa	CD version.
This is NAMCO!	APCG-4006	1990-09-21	Apollon	CD version.
Namcot Game a la Mode	VDR-1285	1986-09-21	Victor Musical Industries	CD version.
Namco Video Game Graffiti	VDR-1165	1986-03-21	Victor	CD version.
Video Game Music	YLC-20003	1984-04-25	Alfa	Cassette version.
Video Game Music	SCDC-00003	2001-03-23	Scitron Digital Content, Inc.	CD version.
Namco Video Game Graffiti	VCH-10334	1986-03-21	Victor	Cassette version.
Namco Video Game Graffiti	SJX-30291	1986-03-21	Victor	Vinyl version.
Namcot Game a la Mode	SJX-30312	1986-09-21	Victor Musical Industries	Vinyl version.
Namcot Game a la Mode	VCH-10365	1986-09-21	Victor Musical Industries	Cassette version.
765 MEGA-MIX	APCG-4014	1991-07-21	APOLLON	CD version.
NAMCO Classic Collection Techno Maniax	PCCG-00440	1998-02-18	Pony Canyon, Inc.	CD version.
Game Sound Museum ~Namcot~ 03 Mappy / Mappy-Land / Mappy Kids	SDEX-0042	2004-12-23	Scitron	CD version.
Namco Classics Collection Vol. 1 Arcade Soundtrack 010	WSCA-00009	1998-01-21	Wonder Spirits	CD version.
Famison 8BIT - iDOLM@STER 01 Yayoi Takutsuki / Ami & Mami Futami	FVCG-1011	2008-03-25	5bp. Records	CD version.
Arcade Ambiance 1983	N/A	2003-01-01	Andy Hofle	Digital download only.
pia-com I / Piano x Computer Game	DERP-10005	2009-11-25	Dog Ear Records	CD version.

References

The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
The sources used include MAME (version 0.113u2) and history.dat (revision 1.28 - 2008-10-18).
Please see http://www.arcade-history.com for credits.