IGN writes: "Never underestimate Nintendo's ability to surprise its fans, as the company famous for keeping game announcements and hardware news held tightly under lock and key offered us a shocker just one week ago -- the Virtual Console Arcade. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata announced the expansion of the Wii's Virtual Console download service to include new emulations of classic coin-op cabinets during his keynote address at this year's Game Developers Conference, which was unexpected and very cool. But even cooler and more unexpected was his follow-up -- that the games weren't just on their way, they were actually already available."
After licensing Space Invaders, Galaxian and Pac-Man, it seemed that Midway couldn't make a mistake in the early 1980s. Then they did.
I rented this game as a kid on NES and hated it.. So many wasted weekends on poor games.. Box art was deceitful
Never played mappy, but Mappy Land is a hidden gem and an awesome game.
Really unique compared to a lot of 2D platformers for the NES. Loved that game.
I didnt like it.. Springing on wires and avoiding cats wasnt what i thought this was going to be like back then.. I was expecting a platformer similar to mario or something.. I was still a child though so there might have been more to it that i didnt understand..
I personally like this game a lot. It requires strategy by planing ahead though, something a lot of arcade gamers in the west couldn't handle. I still play it on my NES as well as the arcade perfect port in Namco Museum 2.
Namco's game of cat-and-mouse didn't grab attention like Pac-Man, but Den of Geek argues that Mappy's still a platform classic.
Invisible Gamer counts down the best games of the year...1983.
