Mappy Kids

Mappy Kids (マッピーキッズ, lit. Mappī Kizzu), is a platform game that was released by Namco for the Famicom on December 22, 1989 (only in Japan); it is the fourth title in the Mappy series, and the only one which did not see a release for the United States. The player(s) must take control of Mappy's two sons, who both want to find a wife but neither of them can marry until they become providers for their families - and in order to do this, they have to accumulate as much Yen as they can over a maximum of fifteen (nine for the two-player mode) stages, then fight to keep it in one of three Nyamco-refereed minigames against a Mewky (in the two-player mode, Mappy's sons will compete against each other instead of a Mewky, and the "flags" game is also impossible for players who cannot read Japanese). If either player loses a minigame, they will also lose some of their money; both players use money to buy parts for building a house, but if they later spin a skull on the virtual slot machine before the next minigame then they will lose one of their accumulated parts and have to spin again (however, if they should spin a Super Mario Bros.-style question box, they may earn a part for winning the minigame).