Mappy Character Manual
Mappy September 17th, 2009I haven’t posted in such a long time. I’ve been too busy as usual for much fun these days.
For those of you that read CoinOpSpace.com you may have already seen this:
I picked this up on eBay. I’ve been hunting for Mappy stuff on eBay for a few years now and its the first one I’ve seen turn up. I had a friend in Japan help do some translation for this. The front reads Mappy Character Manual. It appears to be an artwork guide, showing exactly how the Mappy logo and characters are supposed to be drawn, and in what colors. Very very cool. Here are the rest of the pages. If you click on them, you can see them on Flickr.com, in original size. You can also mouse over the Japanese text to see what most of it says.
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November 7th, 2009 at 2:43 am
Hi Jamie,
That Mappy book is awesome! This definitely would not have been available to the public, but distributed to design teams. The Pantone colors are very interesting. If you want to get a match for any of those colors, look in a Pantone Solid Coated book. For example, on the color callouts for Mappy, the first one reads Pantone 279. In a modern Pantone book that would be Pantone 279C (C for coated). Sometimes abriviated to PMS 279C. Very cool find!
-Eric
November 9th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Hi Eric,
Thanks for the info! Didn’t know that about Pantone. There is a Pac-Man one like this as well out there somewhere. Someone was selling a photo copy of it on eBay a few weeks back.