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In 2013, Kurtz collaborated with Kris Straub to write and produce an animated series for ShiftyLook based on the video game Mappy, titled Mappy: The Beat, with Kurtz also voicing several characters. [7] Kurtz lived in Little Elm, Texas until his move to Seattle in 2010, where he worked from the Penny Arcade offices for over a year. He now works ...
In 2012, ShiftyLook announced that Straub and Kurtz were co-producing a new animated web series, Mappy: The Beat, in which they also voiced all the characters. The series premiered in July 2013 and aired for 13 episodes. [16]
Mappy [a] is an arcade game by Namco, originally released in 1983 and distributed in the United States by Bally Midway.Running on the Namco's Super Pac-Man hardware modified to support horizontal scrolling, the game features a mouse protagonist and cat antagonists, similar to Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoon series.
Dig Dug is a main character in the ShiftyLook webseries Mappy: The Beat. A remix of the Dig Dug soundtrack appears in the PlayStation 2 game Technic Beat. [13] The character Dig Dug was renamed to Taizo Hori, a play on the Japanese phrase "horitai zo", meaning "I want to dig".
Blue Max, known as "Sky Kid", also appears as a recurring character in the ShiftyLook animated series Mappy: The Beat. Sky Kid is a good-natured, but unhelpful and stupid employee of Nyamco who speaks with a Southern accent, and often unintentionally gets on Mappy and Dig Dug's nerves. A theme based on Sky Kid is featured in Pac-Man 99, as ...
Hopping Mappy: Namco System 86: March 1986: Yes No No Sequel to Mappy. The Return of Ishtar: Namco System 86: July 8, 1986: Yes No No Sequel to The Tower of Druaga. MSX: September 21, 1988: Yes No No Thunder Ceptor: Namco Thunder Ceptor: July 1986: Yes No No Genpei Tōma Den: Namco System 86: October 1, 1986: Yes No No PC Engine: March 16, 1990 ...
ShiftyLook was a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings that was focused on revitalizing older Namco franchises, with their first step being video game webcomics based on the company's various franchises.
The Beat is an American drama television series produced by Viacom Productions. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It premiered on UPN on March 21, 2000, [ 3 ] and ended after only six episodes a month later on April 25. Seven additional episodes were produced although they were never broadcast.