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Mr. Do!'s Castle

Description

Mr Do!, the clown, moves around six floors interconnected by ladders -- some fixed, some whose top can be pushed left or right. Baddies look like unicorns. He has a hammer which can knock out floor stones.

Mr. Do!'s Castle was produced by Universal in 1983.

Universal released 52 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1977. Universal was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Universal during the time period Mr. Do!'s Castle was produced include: Mrs. Dynamite, Space Raider, Fantastic Voyage, Mr. Do!, Mr. Do! (Yankee DO!), Mr. Do! Vs. Unicorns, Eggs, Go Go Coaster, La Cible, and Do! Run Run

Specs

Name	Mr. Do!'s Castle
Developer	Universal (Japan)
Year	1983
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	8771
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Platform
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Universal
Game Specific	Mr. Do!'s Castle Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Mr. Do!'s Castle Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right) Buttons: 1 - Hammer
Sound	Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Video Clips

Mr. Do's Castle

MAMECADE 46: Mr Do's Castle or Mr. Do vs Unicorns Arcade Game

Game Play

The hammer is used to knock out floor stones. Some are marked with a cherry - collect all these to finish the level. The unicorns baddies fall into holes that you knock into the floor. Some fall through and survive, whereas some get stuck in the holes. If left they will climb out, leaving a block in the hole, and become nastier baddies. The way to kill the unicorns is to knock a block from the floor above onto their head. When all are killed, the level is complete. The hammer can be used against them, but merely pushes them away a little. On the nastier ones, this does not work at all!

There are sections of floor marked at each end with a skull block which, when both skull blocks are knocked out, all the blocks fall to reveal 'wooden floorboards'. Good for killing multiple monsters!

There are three blocks in the floor which contain keys. Knock them all out to open the doors at the top of the screen. Behind it is a shield, which when collected turns the unicorns into Alphamonsters. The Alphamonsters flee from Mr. Do!, and can be killed with his hammer or by knocking out a floor stone onto them. When you kill an Alphamonster, its letter appears on a flagpole at the top of the screen. Collect all five letters to obtain another Mr. Do!

Mr. Do!'s Castle KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.76 (3 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.90

Overall Like	4.67
Fun (Social)	1.33
Fun (Solo)	4.67
Collector Desire	3.00

Technical Rating: 3.61

Gameplay	5.00
Graphics	3.33
Originality	3.67
Sound/Music	1.33

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Miscellaneous

The Asian version of the game is called Mr. Do! Vs. Unicorns. The graphic ROMs for this title have a variety of prizes, but only the first is used. Even the original apple from Mr. Do! is included but is not used!

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Mr. Do!'s Castle Census

There are 15,181 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,631 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,383 machines (6,976 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 126 known instances of this machine owned by Mr. Do!'s Castle collectors who are active members. Of these, 23 of them are original dedicated machines. 33 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 69 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 8 active VAPS members with a Mr. Do!'s Castle machines for sale. There are 6 active VAPS members with a Mr. Do!'s Castle circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Mr. Do!'s Castle.

This game ranks a 37 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 2 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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Flyers

Technical

The PCB is marked with the code 8300-A2 and the ROMs bear the marking A1-A10. At least two ROM versions exist, but later revisons have extended game play by the inclusion of blocks with cherries embeded in them. Also the replay Diamond was added.

Legacy

Manuals

Service Manual - Mr. Do!'s Castle Manual — **Service Manual**
(18 pages, 1.1 MB File)

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