Mappy is an excellent 80’s arcade title, sure it’s no PAC-Man but it’s as close as you could possibly get!

I just had a kick around with the NES port and half an hour flew by, I got through one or two loops (16 stages, repeated). There seems to be a major potential for point scoring on strategic door openings, grabbing the artefacts in the right order and so forth.

But just being the mouse on the run is fun enough for me, addictive in an evasive side-scroller sense - I get a real Hanna Barbara feeling from it… no less because it sorta is like Tom and Jerry (but not at all).

Recommended to pal around with, I’m again impressed with Namco’s output and are sorta upset that most forget there’s more to them than PAC-Man

Reviewed on Apr 21, 2024


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