Mr. Do! (ミスタードゥ Misutā Du?) is an arcade game created by Universal in 1982. Similar in some ways to Namco's popular Dig Dug title, Mr. Do! was also popular and saw release on a variety of home video game consoles and systems. It is the first game in the Mr. Do series, and was released both as a standalone game and as a conversion kit (released by Taito Corp.) for existing arcade cabinets. It was one of the first arcade games to be released as a conversion kit, and went on to sell 30,000 units in the United States.[1] It was remade in Japan as Neo Mr. Do! (ネオミスタードゥ Neo Misutā Du?). It was also a popular choice on the 1983 video arcade-based game show Starcade.
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Takes Dig Dug and adds Pac-Man elements to it along with a long cooldown attack. The result is something far more exciting than Dig Dug. However, without a constantly available attack against the enemies, it does feel like the game leaves you hanging too much in that many runs end up with a train of enemies chasing you around while you grab the cherries. It feels like it's missing one more attack or tool to even things out a bit.
I reviewed this as day one of my Arcade a Day series, which can be found at the link below
https://arcadedaily.wordpress.com/2024/01/01/mr-do/
https://arcadedaily.wordpress.com/2024/01/01/mr-do/
Digger better
Holy crap, it's Mr. DO!
I first learned of Mr. DO! from a youtuber called SpaceHamster, who dedicated a whole video to discussing the strange nature of this game. The main objective is quite simple, collect the cherries underground while avoiding creatures which are mercilessly out for clown flesh. To get enemies off your tail, you can either crush them with a falling apple (which drops shortly after digging under it), or by using Mr.DO's fantastical, miraculous, rainbow-filled Power Ball (which I always forget I have while playing). After collecting all the cherries, you are warped to another level, and repeat the cycle until you die. This game has such a fun wacky vibe, that I would feel badly giving it anything lower than 5 stars. I would recommend it if you are into cutesy NES-Arcade hybrids like Bubble Bobble and Dig Dug.
I first learned of Mr. DO! from a youtuber called SpaceHamster, who dedicated a whole video to discussing the strange nature of this game. The main objective is quite simple, collect the cherries underground while avoiding creatures which are mercilessly out for clown flesh. To get enemies off your tail, you can either crush them with a falling apple (which drops shortly after digging under it), or by using Mr.DO's fantastical, miraculous, rainbow-filled Power Ball (which I always forget I have while playing). After collecting all the cherries, you are warped to another level, and repeat the cycle until you die. This game has such a fun wacky vibe, that I would feel badly giving it anything lower than 5 stars. I would recommend it if you are into cutesy NES-Arcade hybrids like Bubble Bobble and Dig Dug.
I just want to share this weird incident at college I had one day where one of my classmates was chatting with me after class and I showed him the multicade they had in the cafeteria. He saw Mr. Do and then proceeded to play it for about almost and hour and got like....something like 10x the original high score on the system.
Game's great, made a solid memory for me.
Game's great, made a solid memory for me.
My father loved this game.