Product Description 6" COLLECTIBLE RETRO BURGERTIME MICRO PLAYER
Directions 1. Remove the Micro Player from its packaging. 2.
Insert 4 AA alkaline batteries. 3. Connect the Micro Player to a
TV using the included USB cable. 4. Use the joystick or
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Review: Mappy - Great Game at a Bargain Price. Not Convinced by
Other Titles. - First thing to note is that I paid only £15 for
the 'Mappy' unit. That's a bargain, and it's a great fun little
1983 arcade game from Namco, makers of Pac-Man. The other titles
cost up to £30, so I don't think I'll be buying any more. More on
those, later. This is a neat miniature arcade cabinet. The
coin-slot door is one big on/off push-button. Power comes from 4
x AA batteries or a USB lead (not included). The joystick and
buttons on the control deck all work. The stick itself can be
unscrewed leaving you with a D-Pad type control instead. If
you've got large hands you'll be able to hold the whole thing
while you play it. Smaller hands might want to put it on a table
top. For younger kids, maybe stick it down with some Blu-Tak as
it's quite light! 'Mappy' is a fun little game, where you play
Mappy the Mouse who has to collect items from a house while being
chased by a gang of cats. Curiously Mappy wears a police uniform,
so we have to assume he's actually recovering stolen goods! The
screen scrolls left / right to show the whole house, and instead
of jumping up and down between levels, you bounce on trampolines
and just press the joystick to hop off at different levels. You
can also open and slam doors to knock your persuers down for a
few seconds. But beware of one larger cat who likes to hide
behind some of the objects you have to collect, and bouncing too
many times on the same trampoline will break it. There are also
bonus levels where you have to pop balloons in a maze of vertical
passages and more trampolines - some of which you have to
deliberately break to move on. It's fun, it's easy to play, it
gets quicker and trickier as you go through the levels, and plays
some jolly tunes along the way. Everything a great arcade game
should be. It's also a lovely bit of nostalgia as it's one of the
earliest arcade game cabinets I ever remember seeing other than
'Space Invaders'. Now if only they did 'Time Pilot' too... Now
for the technicalities. What you're getting here is a miniature
clone of the 8-bit Nintendo NES system with some microswitched
controls and a small full-colour LCD pixel display. The box says
'Officially Licensed Product' and is distributed by a division of
Sony of all people, but doesn't seem to mention Nintendo
anywhere. It's pretty good quality and you are getting a proper
screen, not a crude Game-and-Watch type LCD screen with fixed
shapes being turned on and off. The NES version of Mappy is a
great one and plays just as well as the arcade. You could even
argue the standard portrait-oriented screen works better for this
game than the original's vertical display. The thing is with
something like 'Pac-Man' though, is if I was paying more, I'd
expect to be playing the original arcade machine game code and
have the proper vertical screen. I can't really fault the NES
version of Pac-Man, but it's not going to please someone properly
into their videogame history. Well, unless someone else buys it
for them! The same goes for Galaga, Galaxian, Dig Dug...
basically all the games that cost more than the Mappy unit.
Paying £30 for a NES clone that then only plays one game seems a
bit much. And frankly the NES versions you get of 'Joe & Mac'
('Caveman Ninja') and 'Heavy Barrel' are a poor imitation of the
arcade originals. They look much cruder and skip a lot of the
gameplay elements. They should have stuck to early 80s titles in
this format. So, I'm all in favour of a miniature 'Mappy' arcade
machine at £15. But as a stickler I think £30 is overpriced for
the others. I'd either expect something that has a few games
built-in for that price, or something that's genuinely playing
the original arcade game code.
Review: Nice system for the price - Small, entertaining and a
good party piece and icebreaker at parties. Now need to complete
the set. I have 8 of the first set plus one of the premium my
arcade cabs (space invaders). These are a good little piece of
history done in a retro style which appealed to me
