Hopping Mappy

Hopping Mappy[lower-alpha 1] is an arcade game which was released by Namco in 1986. It is the sequel to Mappy, which was released three years earlier. The game was ported to the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on June 2, 2009.

For other uses, see Mappy (disambiguation).
Hopping Mappy
Developer(s)Game Studio
Publisher(s)Namco
SeriesMappy
Platform(s)Arcade, Mobile phone
Release
  • JP: March 1986
Genre(s)Action
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay
Screenshot of the game

In Hopping Mappy players control the Micro Police mouse, Mappy, as he bounces on a pogo stick to run circles around pink cats, called Meowkies, who patrol either vertically or horizontally. There is also Goro, a cat who patrols in a zigzag pattern, but he needs to take occasional breaks. There are eight treasures that a player must grab to complete a round, except on the bonus round where the player will just want to collect all the balloons that he can. The main intrigue here is getting past a blockade of Meowkies. The player controls are simple - he can bounce in any of the four directions, the only places he can land are the centres of the checkerboard squares (making for very few locations overall), and he will move at the same speed as the cats. If the player pushes the accelerator button and runs around, he will go twice as fast. When the cats have sped up (after a "Hurry Up" warning has appeared) they will match Mappy's accelerated speed.

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Hopping Mappy as being the thirteenth most-popular arcade game of April 1986.[1]

Notes
  1. Japanese: ホッピングマッピー, Hepburn: Hoppingu Mappī

References
  1. "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 282. Amusement Press. 15 April 1986. p. 21.
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