all of the character voices, and it was designed with limited animation in the style of Kurtz and Straub's Blamimations series. The story follows Mappy, now working a thankless job as a security guard for his former foe Goro's company Nyamco. He is accompanied by his friends and fellow Nyamco employees, the laid-back digging-obsessed Dig Dug and the dim but good-natured Sky Kid, along with other Bandai Namco characters working at the office. Mappy: The Beat premiered on ShiftyLook's YouTube channel on July 22, 2013, and ran for 13 episodes, each roughly eight minutes in length, with the final episode released on January 20, 2014. Kurtz also made a guest appearance as Mappy on the concurrent Bravoman animated series, with Bravoman in turn appearing in the final story arc of Mappy, portrayed by guest voice Dax Gordine. Following the closure of ShiftyLook, their channel was removed from YouTube, making the episodes no longer officially available. A costume based on Mappy is in LittleBigPlanet 3 in the Namco Classics DLC. A medley of tracks from Mappy is in the Pac-Land stage in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and in one of Pac-Man's taunts. A theme based on Mappy, featuring the game's characters, is in Pac-Man 99 as special DLC. Notes References External links Mappyland Mappy on strategywiki.org 1983 video games 2013 web series debuts 2014 web series endings Arcade video games Bandai Namco Entertainment franchises Fictional police officers in video games FM-7 games Game Boy Advance games Game Gear games Midway video games MSX games Namco arcade games NEC PC-6001 games NEC PC-8001 games NEC PC-8801 games Nintendo Entertainment System games Nintendo Switch games Platform games PlayStation 4 games Sharp MZ games Sharp X1 games Video games about mice and rats Video games about police officers Video games developed in Japan Virtual Console games Virtual Console games for Wii U IOS games Works by Kris Straub Hamster Corporation games Multiplayer and single-player video games