Let's Compare ( Mappy )
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2012
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Arcade 0:34
MSX 1:52
Fijitsu FM7 3:11
Sharp X1 4:29
NEC PC8801 5:47
Sharp MZ-2500 7:06
Gameboy Color 8:25
Gameboy Advance 9:43
Game Gear 11:02
Famicom 12:25
Playstation 13:43
Sharp X68000 15:06
Description Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mappy
Mappy (マッピー Mappī?) is a 1983 arcade game by Midway Games (until Namco Classic Collection vol.1 is released, it was made by Namco). In the United States, it was manufactured and distributed by Bally/Midway. Mappy is a side-scrolling platformer that features cartoon-like characters, primarily cats and mice. The game's main character itself is a mouse. Mappy runs on Namco Super Pac-Man hardware, modified to support horizontal scrolling. The name "Mappy" is likely derived from mappo, a Japanese slang term (slightly insulting) for a policeman.
Gameplay
The player guides Mappy the police mouse through the mansion of the cats called Mewkies (Meowky in the U.S. version) to retrieve stolen goods. The player uses a left-right joystick to move Mappy and a single button to operate doors. The mansion has six floors of hallways in which the stolen items are stashed. The items are:
Radio (100 points)
Television (200 points)
Computer (300 points)
Mona Lisa (400 points)
Safe (500 points)
The items come in pairs; should Mappy get paired items one after another, the point values of the second matching item gets a multiplier. The more the player retrieves matching items without dying, the bigger the multiplier gets. Therefore, ideally a player will start with the lowest value item (100 + 100 × 2) and proceed to the highest value items (500 + 500 × 6) in order to get the highest value items with the biggest multiplier, for a total of 8500pts. The second item of a pair will blink if retrieving it will yield a multiplier.
Mappy and the cats move between the floors by bouncing on trampolines at various places in the house. Both Mappy and the cats can only land on a floor on the way up, but not on the way down. When they pass in the air, Mappy is unharmed by the cats, but should Mappy run into a cat anywhere else, he will lose a life.
The trampolines will break if Mappy bounces on them four times in a row. The trampolines change color depending on how many times Mappy has used them without a rest: green (zero bounces), blue (one bounce), yellow (two bounces), red (three bounces). A red trampoline will break if Mappy attempts it again. If a trampoline breaks and there is another trampoline below, Mappy will live. If there is either nothing or a floor under the broken trampoline, Mappy will lose a life. To reset a trampoline, Mappy must touch a floor. Bouncing on a trampoline is worth 10pts.
In addition to Meowkies, the boss cat Nyamco also roams around. The name "Nyamco", besides being a play on "Namco", comes from nyanko, the Japanese equivalent of "kitty cat". Nyamco was renamed "Goro" in the U.S. release. He is faster, but less aggressive than the Mewkies. Throughout the levels, Nyamco hides behind the different objects to recover. Should Mappy recover an item which Nyamco is hiding behind, the player gets a bonus of 1000 points for having caught Nyamco in the act. He only hides behind an object for three seconds, though. Nyamco is always a single cat in each level, but the Meowkies appear three to a group for the first set of levels before the first bonus stage, four to a group for the next set of levels in between bonus levels, five to a group for the next set of levels, and so on.
Many of the hallways have doors which Mappy can slam open or shut to temporarily knock out the Mewkies or Nyamco. Some of these are special "microwave doors" which release a wave which sweeps away any cat in its path off the edge of the screen and out of the house. The first two Mewkies are each worth 200 points, and each additional Mewky beyond the second is worth 400 points; Nyamco counts as a Mewky plus a multiplier of two. Any cat that is swept away reappears after a short while, jumping from the top center opening in the roof.
A level is completed when all the loot is retrieved. If Mappy tarries too long, a "Hurry" sign appears after which the music and the cats speed up, and more Mewkies are added (two will appear ready to drop as the Mewkies normally do immediately following the hurry message, and more Mewkies can arrive later on). If the player waits too long after this, the "Gosenzo" coin (a blue disk shape with Nyamco's face on it) will drop onto the top-middle platform and chase Mappy in a manner similar to the Mewkies, but more effectively. The "Gosenzo" coin can harm Mappy even if he is in the air. - เกม
The main theme can be found here now.
soundcloud.com/auditoryintelligence/happy-mappy-broadway-jamesmanxtreme
Can we all just take a minute or two to discuss how much of an underrated game Mappy is?
Doorknob my arcade micro has Mappy
As for mappy
I really wish mappy got more love in the arcades
Mappy needs more love in general. This is a really amazing game. The fact this game is not as popular as other Arcade games like Dig Dug, Pacman, and Galaga boggles my mind, even to this day. Heck, in the Namco Museum compilations, I spend more time playing Mappy much, much more than playing Pac-Man because I find Mappy more fun and enjoyable.
I have it on a plug and play and i love it!
The more modern the game gets gets the more Mappy looks like he's giving people the giant middle finger inside a Chuck E Cheese costume.
Sometimes the game ALWAYS looks modern to me too. Good graphics, and high quality music.
I know that right
IKR
Robert Caldwell Simulator X.D. Videos laways
@@mastersproutgamer9327 I've fixed it.
It's cool how pac man uses the trampoline from this game in smash bros for WiiU. Also one of his taunts is pulling mappy out of his pocket, among other classic Namco games.
actually what he pulls out is random each time
LBF197 [Aaron the Bunny] which is why he said among other classic Namco games?
soz for late response
Pac-Man also has a power bell from Mappy in Smash Bros Ultimate. It’s a update :)
he's the only mouse who has his own Galaga tractor beam-
It makes sense that Mappy and Galaga have connections like this :) After all, both these games are made by Namco.
Arcade = Best Version
My opinion
yes I agree
Purpulear one of my favorite games
Purpulear Same here I still play the original arcade game with a special game pad that I bought :D
I had the plug in and play that had Pac man Galica the where it mentions the other games I have played the arcade of mappy
Purpulear Game Boy version. Because it looks interesting
The Arcade version is still the best.
Tomer Hanan it's original version there is also browser arcade no Namco released on 2014 only in Japan
I like the ds version
I love how Mappy has a baton but doesn't use it lol, but he sure as hell can fight with those doors!
Playstation had the best look-a-like !
3:12 Wow! People surely remember *M P Y A P*
Ethan. K I sure know that game called M P Y A P
haha it's so goog
I played the Famicom (NES) version in my childhood (through a Famiclone), it was one of my favorite games, there's a lot of strategy in this game, once you know how the springs and the cats works. Now, seeing all this version, the Famicom version seens to be the most accurate version to the original Arcade version, i can't say if the Playstation version is an actual remake for the system, or just a emulator running the arcade version.
I love Mappy, my sister and i used to play that game a lot on the famicom, it's a cute game =)
Probably the closest thing to the original arcade version was the PlayStation version
That is because the Playstation is an emulation of the actual arcade ROM, StarCat.
I remember playing this game when I was younger....before my parents split. I just remembered this game and I always watch videos of it because it brings back good memories 😌
One of my favorite arcade games. Never got to play the real arcade version until 2 nights ago. Retro arcade bar opened in my city that has it. I love the oversized marquee on top, really makes it stand out from the other cabinets
When I was playing mappy, I always get rekted by dem cats
Goro: Give me a bag of dem chips!
Berry Bluez Oh the meowkies. I've experienced the same
@@Mfenton10it is fish. give me a bag of dem FISH!
OH MY GOSH! I LOVE MAPPY SO MUCH!
All Access Gaming Oh my gosh I hate Weegeidgoingtokillm so much. He ruined Trixie.
***** Yes he is!
***** I still love Mappy more than Dig Dug but yeah he's a cute and awesome Namco character!
***** Contest? How?
***** Exactly!
Sharp X68000 15:06 is my favorite one.
Stoked to see this game getting love!
I remember playing the arcade and NES versions of this game back in the day. Very few people know that you can "slam" the door while passing through it and hit the cats. Getting a high score by getting each item in pair and increase the multiplier per successive pair
I’m not really sure what my obsession with these “compare” videos were when I was younger, but they are interesting. Mappy was always my favorite classic Namco game. Played it on the Ms. Pac Man plug and play way back when. I miss that thing. Anyway I hope you’re doing okay whoever reads this
I love how each version of the Mappy theme is more melancholic than the last
The GBC version is somehow better than the GBA one.
...*How?*
The GBA version is a Famicom Mini, the JP counterpart of the classic NES series. It's an emulated NES/FC game.
Because the GBA is just a direct, low-quality port of the NES version.
CloudySkies17695 I know, that version just feels like a port of Mappy on the GBC, it feels NOTHING like a regular ol´ gba game. The music is bad, the graphics are bad, just everything except the GBA has a taller screen.
wait it´s a classic nes port? lol nevermind then
i have an opinion that this is true for SMB1 too: GBA is under NES Classic series, while GBC literally was remade for the hardware.
14:11 This and Mappy Arrangement should've also been added to Namco Museum on PS2, Gamecube & Xbox!
Arcade is the only good one. I had a little joystick thing as a kid and i used it for mappy. Great game
jc feldman I do like the plug n play version better than the arcade.
jc feldman same. when I was younger (I'm 16 now) we had the box joy stick games we used to play on the box tv's. I used to play mappy, pacman, galga, rally x, dig dug, all the old good games
we all know that as kids, even if I still am one, pole position was mind breaking.
Playstation:am i a joke to you?
I think your talking about the Ms pacman TV Namco thing. I loved it too. Super nostalgic and is basically the arcade version, I agree.
It's quite varied over the different platforms. I like the look of the Gameboy Colour version it seems to give is an old style movie feel.
MarioSTAR21 Galaxys Yes it is a bit
3:12 That looks like it says “MPYAP”. 🤨
With all of the arcade archive games on Nintendo switch, I’m surprised that Mappy was not released yet. It definitely should! This one is a classic.
Good news! It finally happened :) You can get both the original Mappy and its sequel Hopping Mappy recently on Arcade Archives for the Switch and PS4/5.
I just started playing this after all these years...
AND BOY, IS IT ADDICTIVE!
I guess, though it still reminded me of the Famicom version anyway since some of those titles found their way to the GBA in both Japan and abroad.
The artwork on the Game Gear version is the best.
I love Mappy! :) It's my favorite arcade game of all time! Out of all the versions of Mappy is shown in this video, the only versions of Mappy I played are the original Arcade version, Famicom/NES version, and Game Gear version. My favorite version of Mappy is no doubt the original Arcade version(Arcade version usually is the best version in these kinds of games), and my second favorite version is the Famicom version. I like the Game Gear version of Mappy, it's still really fun, however, what bothers me about that version is the screen crunch and the weird AI of the Meowky gang in that port, but I still have a really good time with it(What's sweet, is it gives new really good levels). Great video. I would've love to see what an Atari 2600 version of Mappy could've look like, but it doesn't exist unfortunately :(
Yeah! That's what I thought when I first saw that!
Your profile is Goro/Nyamco :) I highly approve this
Love this game! The Game Gear one looked pretty solid.
First of all let me say that I love all of your "Let's Compare" videos. I've always been obsessed with the different ports of games I like and how unique a lot of them are to their specific platform.
I especially favor this one on account that you included some really obscure ports like the FM7, NEC 8801 and the various Sharp computers. I love how, on the Sharp X68000 version the computer was remade from the TRS-80 looking computer icon to Sharp's Duel Tower design.
I LOVE mappy. I used to play it on 3DS. I was looking forward to playing it in the actual arcade, but since they were "better" games, it got kicked out.
But Mappy is better than Pac-Man though(We’ll, in my opinion).
I know it wasnt on here, but I played the arcade version, and the version on the Ms. Pac Man Plug and play thing. between those two, I like the Plug and mPlay version better, if only for the sound being revamped. For example in the arcade, the long sustained notes are just very short ones. It makes it seem like that was only that way because of hardware limitations (and i dont know if thats the case, so please correct me). In the plug and play version, this is changed to one long note. I think it sounds much better than what any other version has in terms of sound.
Yes
Same
Wait..... So Your Saying What?
God I love this game. Only have it on Namco Museum DS, and i lost that game so I can't play it unless I go to the arcade (which is a little ways away). Highest level I've gotten is 12, but I can only get up to 8 at the arcade lol.
I kind of want to learn the song on piano because of how good the tune is. At this point, I'm pretty sure my sister is annoyed with me whistling it all the time. But it really is a great song.
This has been my favorite arcade game for a good couple years now (next to Dig Dug). It's cool to see it's been ported to other systems in its life.
How is it possible for the GBA version to look and sound far worse than the GBC version?!
+Otaking Mikohani I bout the GBA version and it sounds better than it does in video but the graphics still are Famicom quality
GBA often sounded worse than Gameboy. Just a fact of life
I think it's mainly the video quality's fault or emulation issues. When you play the actual GBA cartridge of Mappy, it looks and sound better than in this video. The GBA version of Mappy is basically a Famicom version ported to the GBA as part as a Famicom mini series. There was a time when NES games are ported to the GBA, and Mappy is one of those games that's picked to port over to GBA(The NES/Famicom version of course) as the Famicom mini series. It's only released in Japan though. I heard they port NES/Famicom games to the GBA to celebrate NES/Famicom's anniversary at the time.
The GBA version should've went with PCM samples like most games
I looked up different footage of the GBA version, and it looked and sounded A LOT better. I honestly don’t know why it looks and sounds so fucked up in this video.
4:30-5:48-7:07-11:02-13:44-15:09 my favorites.
why does the sharp X6800 sound like a guitar on drugs
Kirby Fan Sounds like a Sega Genesis on drugs.
Because it could.
Glad I could revive those old memories & I'm glad You enjoyed the video. :)
The last one is SO mega drive like! XD
Oh my god!!
You even did one for mappy 😀
LEGENDARY
The arcade version is so much fun. You can play that on the Namco Museum 50th Anniversary on PS2.
i already have ms pacman (joystick) collection, i play mappy in there (sometimes)
Whoa! A was shared thisby a friend of mine. I forgot this even existed! I was probably like 6 or 7 when I playedthis!
9:51 i remember playing this last year
The music for the PC-8801 & the Sharp X68000 is surprisingly good!
14:13
Mappy has transformed.
Well PS1 Released On 1995
@ true
This is probably the only game where al the variations are very, very good!!!
I know all the patterns. Got it from the good ol’ DSi. Too bad the game was commonly sold in Japan.
The sharp x68000 looks and sounds like a game on the SEGA Genesis.
I intend to do that some day. But I haven't had a lot of time to do it. However ! If anyone watching the videos takes note of the times & posts it in the comments I can just copy & paste them in whenever I log back in. Currently working on 3 videos at the moment. ^_^
in the sharp x68000 version the music reminds me of sega genesis
14:30 mommy, is that where kittens come from?
Mommy: ummmmmmmmmm.....
Love this game!
Fo the GBC it's actually Namco gallery volume 1
Still the cutest game ever made by Namco. Of course Dig Dug comes close.
soooooo many memories with this game.. one of the hardest games i ever played though, as a kid i used to curse for hours at the tv playing this.. hard as balls but damn was it fun!
I love this game!
I love this game.
wait if you're still here I saw "Mappī?" in the description and ... uh, katakana is used for foreign names and loanwords, and for some reason video game characters often have "foreign" names (マリオ Mario, ガノンドロフ Ganondorofu -> Ganondorf), so マッピー (Mappi, but pronounced like Italian and the "i" is long) is probably best translated as Mappy, even in a literal sense (or at least you can get rid of the question mark lol).
i love the music of the Sharp X1, NEC PC8801, Game Gear and Sharp X68000's copys of the level theme ^^
Items are on the board in pairs. Once you pick up the first of an item, picking up the second immediately afterwards nets you more points. If you just randomly run around picking up stuff, you won't get as high a score.
The Sharp X 68000 had a YAMAHA sound chip, that's why the game's music sounds like it came from the Sega Genesis.
Oh you again
I'm not sure if we have met... hmm...
I remember the Mewkies being the "Naughty Folks," but when'd they get the title of "Navghty Folks?"
Gaming history source when I played Mappy I got to 100 state and when I completed at level 100 C stage when I finished it I was so good and I got to the hard levels and I completed them to and I make videos you do
It's amazing how much mileage that got out of this one game.
Holy crap... Namco does its ports very good. And to think that the Sharp X1 and NEC had SMB Special without screen scrolling...
I love this game I played it too much
I remember playing this a lot when I was 12, I'm only 19 but I prefer this kind of games over today's edgy stuff since I was a kid while every other 12 year old was obsessed with COD and other peew-peew games.Mappy was was one of my fav games at the time, I just wish the NES version was on the Virtual Console, because the arcade version doesn't screen really well on TVs, its format was ok on an arcade machine but just doesn't work for TVs, and it's not the game's fault, of course it wasn't meant to be played on TV, if someone could make a screen extended hack of the arcade version it would be great in my opinion.
How i ❤️ Mappy
1:56 aaaaah xD so scary!
The arcade versions are always the best version
for those who’s wondering what’s the gbc version it’s just namco Gallery Vol.1 just only in japan
Was the Game Gear version a Japanese exclusive or did it come out in the US. I need to know as I don't really like to import things.
Michael Wolfe The Sega Game Gear version only released in Japan.
My favorites in order:
1. (Of course) Arcade / PS1
2. Sharp X68000
3. Sharp MZ-2500
4. Sharp X1
5. Famicom / GBA
6. Game Gear
7. GBC
8. NEC PC8801
9. Fijitsu FM7
10. MSX
You have to appreciate the different renditions of the music.
Great game! Also Revenge of Arcades version is identical the the arcade as I remember.
Also the GBA Port of this game looks and sounds terrible! They must have gotten lazy with it.
Wingnut, your videos are awesome, thank you for uploading all these platform versions, I'm a big retro-gamer (can't get enough of Pac-Man for the Atari 2600, yeah, you heard it right, oh, and I LOVE E.T. too, that's how much of a gamer I am!), keep up the good work.
Oh, by the way, is the Game Boy Color version of Mappy (8:25) part of a collection or something? I can't seem to find info about that version, I could only find info about the GBA one but not about the GBC.
Thanks in advance.
great job! thank you!!!
YW !
One of the FEW games from the classic (pre 1985) era with NO ports for the American consoles of the time(Atari 2600/5200, Colecovision, Intellivision. or even the Atari 7800) Also - was there ever a Commodore 64 version ?
I remember as a kid I played this, I don't remember what console it was on, but it was like the arcade/PS original stlye. It might of been a plug n play, Wii, or Playstation 2
The Name is at the end in the credits along with a clickable link in an annotation to the channel hosting the song. :)
We love Mappy games so much!!!
+Gaming History Source if you play the ps1 version of the same game the ps1 version use the same as the arcade graphics as shown on namco museum series that is appear on the game menu of namco museum series
ratings
arcade: perfect like an arcade 10/10
MSX: the graphics aren't really good i say 6/10
fijustu FM-7: i guess its ok 5/10
sharp X1: thats not that bad 7/10
PC-88: i love the 16-bit PC-88 versions 8/10
sharp MZ-2500: this shares similarr tings with the PC-88 8/10
gameboy color: its an insult to the NES version 4/10
GBA: this sounds even worse 3/10
game gear: it looks good 7/10
NES: it came good 8/10
sharp X68000: wow i love this version 10/10
i give the mappy ports a 76/110
Monkeymanlol Official, Good Job with those ratings, except you misspelled "similar" as similarr, and "things" as tings. the Game Boy Advance version had a widescreen view that all the sprites had to be sized down. also, the Game Boy Advance does not have high quality audio, so the music is worse as well. And the NES version was only released for the Famicom (Japanese version of NES)
Namco Museum (PSX):Very Close to the Arcade version it was emulated! 10/10
Sharp 68000: Looks 16-Bit, It deserves an 8/10. Also, This shares similar features with the Sharp MZ-2500 and PC-88 ports such as 16-Bit like graphics.
I agree
The NES version was the exact same as the arcade version
J Waughtal Famicom
@@albertovaldivia8904 I FOUND IT
can you give me the music
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@@FlameFireTheFox www.bing.com/search?q=Mappy+arcade+rom&qs=n&form=CHRDEF&pc=U316&sp=-1&pq=mappy+arcade+rom&sc=4-16&sk=&cvid=5770465BF56E4A12880FBCB6566BFD23
Yea
Atari 2600 mapy
Which music the title music of the video
Thank you very much for the praise ! lol I appreciate it. a majority of the time People only point out My mistakes but seem to overlook the time it takes to make the video & fail to understand that sometimes mistakes slip through the cracks. The gameboy version is for regular gameboy but is enhanced for the super gameboy for the SNES. This might be why You can't find it. I tagged it as GBC because of it's enhancement for Super Gameboy for the SNES. Hope that answers Your question. :)
The Game Gear version actually looks/sounds really good.
Shame it was only in Japan.
I have Mappy on Famicom and on PS2's Namco Museum 50th Anniversary and PSP's Namco Battle Museum collections. I do enjoy Mappy and got to play it in arcades a few times back in the day, and got to see it on Starcade back in the day played sometimes. I hope to one day get the Namco collection for GB that has Mappy and the one for Super Pac-Man (I think that's on GBC Ms Pac-Man though). One can't go wrong with good arcade ports, and as a collector, I have a bunch of them.
My Hero! 😍
Game Gear versión is awesome,my favorite,Arcade version
The music is so catchy
nice compilation
Thanks ! Your name caught my attention because I grew up in a town called Walhalla S.C. in the 80's.
@@GamingHistorySource you see; always a link with the 80's. Best decade ever ;-D
@@walhalla254 damn strait brotha !
I recall someone decided to remake the game calling it Marippy. It's a PC port where aside from certain changes like sprites for example it's the same
the sharp X68000 sounds as if composed out of a chopstick piano
Namco used the name "Namcot" for a lot of their home ports in Japan, especially on the PC Engine.