Arcade Video game published 40 years ago:

Hopping Mappy (c) 1986 Namco.

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 Nyamco, 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 - Mappy 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.

- TECHNICAL -

Namco System 86 hardware Game ID: HM

Main CPU: (2x) M6809 (@ 1.536 Mhz), Hitachi HD63701 (@ 1.536 Mhz) Sound Chips: Yamaha YM2151 (@ 3.57958 Mhz), Namco 8-channel WSG

Screen orientation: Horizontal Video resolution: 288 x 224 pixels Screen refresh: 60.61 Hz Palette colors: 512

Players: 2 Control: 4-way joystick Buttons: 1

- TRIVIA -

Hopping Mappy was released in April 1986.

- STAFF -

Sound composer: Nobuyuki Ohnogi

- PORTS -

* COMPUTERS: [JP] Sharp X68000

* OTHERS: [US] Arcade (2018) "Pac-Man's Pixel Bash"

Player layout in our catalog: 2P alt.

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Open Play on this page to start Hopping Mappy. Keyboard, USB/Bluetooth pads, and the on-screen touch gamepad all work inside the emulator bar. Save states and fullscreen live on that same bar so you can pause mid-session and resume later.

Hopping Mappy is filed in our catalog as a 1986 release.

Player layout on this cabinet: 2P alt.

Genre tags on Classic Arcade Games: Platform.

Credit line lists Namco as developer.