Raccoon + The Entertainer = ???
June 7, 2010 6:53 PM Subscribe
Old-video-game-filter: Help my roommate remember the name of this video game from his childhood!
Words of roommate:
You played as a raccoon and ran around, and the Entertainer by Scott Joplin was always playing. I think it was a sidescroller, but you mostly just ran around as a raccoon.
This isn't much to go on, but anyone remember? Entertainer raccoon?
Words of roommate:
You played as a raccoon and ran around, and the Entertainer by Scott Joplin was always playing. I think it was a sidescroller, but you mostly just ran around as a raccoon.
This isn't much to go on, but anyone remember? Entertainer raccoon?
Super Mario Bros 3 perhaps? You could turn into a raccoon in that game.
posted by littlesq at 7:09 PM on June 7, 2010
posted by littlesq at 7:09 PM on June 7, 2010
Best answer: Mappy perhaps?
I think your friend may almost be remembering it "almost-but-not-quite" completely.
While I don't remember raccoons, it is a Keystone-cops-and-robbers scenario played by cartoon rodents and I think some characters wear burglar masks (easily confused with raccoon).
While I don't remember the music being The Entertainer, it is a Joplinesque rag.
posted by sourwookie at 7:14 PM on June 7, 2010 [1 favorite]
I think your friend may almost be remembering it "almost-but-not-quite" completely.
While I don't remember raccoons, it is a Keystone-cops-and-robbers scenario played by cartoon rodents and I think some characters wear burglar masks (easily confused with raccoon).
While I don't remember the music being The Entertainer, it is a Joplinesque rag.
posted by sourwookie at 7:14 PM on June 7, 2010 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: The timeline is circa 1990.
It's not Sly Cooper, and he doesn't think it's Mappy, but thank you sourwookie for showing us Mappy because Mappy is sweet.
posted by jordanlewis at 7:20 PM on June 7, 2010
It's not Sly Cooper, and he doesn't think it's Mappy, but thank you sourwookie for showing us Mappy because Mappy is sweet.
posted by jordanlewis at 7:20 PM on June 7, 2010
Sounds like Mappy; see gameplay video, music is very Entertainer-like (plus SMB2 ripoff?). And some of those characters sure look like racoons.
Apparently there was also a more traditional sidescroller version called Mappy Land (gameplay).
posted by rafter at 7:21 PM on June 7, 2010
Apparently there was also a more traditional sidescroller version called Mappy Land (gameplay).
posted by rafter at 7:21 PM on June 7, 2010
Response by poster: With help from his brother he determined that it was the "Raccoon Race" from Mental Math Games: no Entertainer music, it's actually the William Tell overture's finale - and Mappy is way cooler anyway!
Video for interested parties here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki0OdSP_bRY
posted by jordanlewis at 7:46 PM on June 7, 2010
Video for interested parties here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki0OdSP_bRY
posted by jordanlewis at 7:46 PM on June 7, 2010
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posted by bruceo at 6:59 PM on June 7, 2010