I started writing about this on CoinOpSpace.com to enter their restoration contest. I missed the deadline for the contest, but finished the restoration thread there. You can read all about it here.

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.

If you are starting a restoration, you should post it on CoinOpSpace.com and take a crack at it.

I’ve decided to enter, and will be restoring my Mappy. Part of the contest rules requires that the restoration information only be posted on CoinOpSpace.com, so I won’t be discussing the actual restoration here. If you are interested in reading along, here’s my entry.

It’s a plush toy from Japan of the character Goro from Mappy, who plays the bad guy. You can see him poking around the coin door here:

Here are some shots of the tag:

There is one more left on eBay…go get it!

I just picked up a project Mappy from Pete in Mass. I spotted it in an ad he put in the RGVAC newsgroup. There is a lot of great information on Mappy over at Mappyland, where I got the animated gifs above.

After I saw and played Mappy at Funspot in NH a few months back, I kept my eye out for one. I love the art on the cabinet, and the game is a lot of fun. I’ll give you some pics below and describe the condition it’s in so you can see what I’m up against with this one.

The sideart on one side (the right) is very good. The left side is decent, but has a section about 3″x3″ that is torn off. It’s in a spot that is mostly black, so I may be able to paint it to make it less noticable.

The control panel is pretty beat up:

The stickers on the front are in good shape

The bezel is just about perfect.

There is a gaping hole where the monitor once lived:

Pete gave me a broken one that I can hopefully fix and use for it. The game board works, so once I fix the cabinet and the monitor I should be able to get it going, after I do some bonding with my friend Elmer.

The left side of the cabinet is coming off…

I’ll have to clamp and glue it, and may need to cut some wood away and replace it. I won’t really know until I look it over better. There is also a piece of wood that goes above the control panel that’s broken off that will require some more glue. BTW…what’s with the cow on the Elmer’s glue label!? I hope they don’t melt down cows at the glue factory, as I couldn’t live with myself knowing Mappy was held together by the liquified remains of our departed bovine buddies.