Mappy

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Game Introduction

The player controls Mappy, the "Micro Police, a police-mouse whose job is to collect valuables from a cat's house (one has to surmise that he is retrieving stolen goods).

In hot pursuit of our hero is a gang of five pink cats called Meowsky or "Naughty Folks" and a large red fat cat called Goro or "Boss The Big Bit".

Game Play

Treasures (two each) / Value (points):

• tape player - 100
• television - 200
• computer - 300
• painting - 400
• safe - 500

Other sources of points include bouncing on a trampoline (10 points), striking a cat with a door (50 points, 0 points if they hit a door on their own), microwaving cats (200 per cat and multiply by two if you get Goro), retrieving a treasure with Goro behind it (1000 point bonus), striking cats with a bell (300 for Meowsky, 1000 for Goro), and dropping cats through a hole in the floor (unknown value).

Strategies for getting the treasures without getting killed and maximizing your points vary. If you retrieve the treasures in pairs, multipliers will increase such that the final treasure, the second safe, will be worth 3000 points. This would give you a potential 8500 points just from treasure recovery. Getting killed resets the multiplier, so this assumes that you take the treasures in order and don't get killed. You might also simply try to microwave as many cats as possible at once, and catch Goro behind every treasure he hides behind.

Use the Door button to open and close doors. Cats are stunned by doors which hit them, but they can open normal doors which they come upon from behind. Only Mappy can open microwave doors. Once used, microwave doors become regular doors. Cats never close doors. Rounds begin and game resumes with all doors closed regardless of their previous state.

Levels 3, 7, 11, and 15 are bonus rounds. Each red balloon you pop is worth 200 points later. The last balloon, with Goro behind it, is worth 2000 points later. Bouncing on trampolines here is still worth 10 points. If you get all the balloons, you'll get a total of 5000 points plus a bonus of 5000 points. To completely clear rounds 11 and 15 require noting a difference between rounds three and seven. If you wait too long after the HURRY UP message, a green spinning disc with Goro on it will appear.

Miscellaneous

VAPS Arcade Census

Very Common - There are 76 known instances of Mappy owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 53 of them are original dedicated machines, and 23 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Of the 57,098 video games (3,420 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 45 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

Wanted - There are 9 VAPS members currently looking for Mappy.

For Sale - There are 3 VAPS members with Mappy machines for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operators might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

Technical

Trivia

Cats and mice have been in cartoons for as long as anyone can remember. Tom and Jerry, Pixie, Dixie and Jinx, Herman and Katnip, Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse, Krazy Kat and Ignatz and the list goes on and on. So when video game designers brought the cat and mouse theme into video games. First, there was Mouse Trap by Exidy and then there was Mappy by Namco (licensed to Bally/Midway).

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Legacy

1. Mappy
2. Hopping Mappy

Foto-Finder™

1. The Encyclpedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 149; Color photo;