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Namco's classic arcade series, starring a police mouse hunting a gang of mischievous cats. There are six pieces in total, covering its sequels and spinoffs, as well as the Shiftylook cartoon series.

This is another one of these articles part of New Year's Resolution, since I'd been working on it for something like four years. The main obstacles were covering all of the many computer ports of the arcade game, getting info on all of the mobile games (especially some recent ones that were only released on Japanese smartphones), and some of the other stuff regarding Mappy's history as a toy robot.

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Mappy

The battle of "cat vs. mouse" has been told countless times, through children's stories to cartoon to video games. Mappy is Namco's take on the formula, a 1983 arcade game that has some vague influence from Pac-Man, combined with some unique platforming elements. The game was designed by Eiji Sato, who later worked on Dragon Buster.