@seasons#16505 Oh man this post inspired me to watch a playthrough of this game while working this morning. I played this on the TG16 when I was way too young and it scared the hell out of me. It really kind of holds up!
https://youtu.be/xss7N6ELobU
@bankbank#17766 I almost picked up a cib copy of megapanel for like $12 bucks last month. when I start buying mega drive imports in bulk maybe I'll get it for real.
@CidNight#17771 i recently played it again on the pc engine mini. it holds up really well!
found out about this yesterday:
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Given that Mappy runs on the same arcade hardware as Super Pac-Man, it’s worth noting how much more sophisticated its graphics and design are. Its character sprites are larger and more detailed than Namco’s earlier hit, while its levels, although constructed from broadly the same handful of tiles, are more varied. It’s interesting, too, that while Mappy came out in 1983, its characters were conceived much earlier. In fact, they weren’t designed as the cast of a video game, but as robots.
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In early 80s, while Pac-Man was filling arcades, Namco had a sideline in robot-building. One of the company’s key personnel at the time was Shigeki Toyama, who was something of a renaissance man when it came to design. Toyama created some of the original concepts for the geometric ships in Namco’s hit shooter, Xevious, and designed several of the company’s arcade cabinets. He was also into robotics, and in 1980, he created a maze-navigating robot named Goro – a portly, grinning cat who looked just like the villain who we’d later see in Mappy. One year later, Toyama created another robot, Mappy, who – you guessed it – was essentially identical to the game’s title hero, right down to the police uniform.
i excitedly look these up, and while they look cool as heck, all they do is hug the left wall till they "find" the exit hahah.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tgbd4MJw4I
article excerpt from: https://www.denofgeek.com/games/mappy-namcos-forgotten-follow-up-to-pac-man/
@hellomrkearns#18087 IDK How this relates to namco but WOW I never heard of this, looks like they had working cabinets ??? My mind is blown, I need to play this game so badly.
I have this…
(Also, does anyone else do this? Like keep the original plastic but cut enough of it just to get the game out? I never seen anyone else do this on the internet. I even do this for cased games where the plastic becomes like a slip on cover.)
@hellomrkearns#18180 did Aerosmith like gaming? They seem to pop up a lot.
@X3N0Sbioz#18140 majority of gamers do not, but this has been a thing since time began, wot with vinyl record sleeves and what not. Very smart and cool way to keep your boxes nice, if you want to.
@tomjonjon#18190 I think Aerosmith likes money.
@hellomrkearns#18262 one dump truck full of cash = Revolution X
World‘s Largest Pac Man?? I see a 60" screen turned sideways with an arcade stick attached. We can do better than that. Let’s make a CRT video wall. We can do it for under $50
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