Let’s Play Mappy Land! 
Mappy Land makes me think of Video Box, our local video game rental store. We, being my brother and I, got to go there every Friday when I was probably 7-10ish to rent one video game for the weekend. Unlike the weird bastardized video game rental stores which only offered 2 day, meaning overnight rental, Video Box wasn’t stupid and let you keep it Friday through Sunday.
Let’s Play Mappy Land:
My brother and I got pretty good at renting a game on Friday, playing the crap out of it that night and all day Saturday, and beating it before having to return it on Sunday. Me especially, and I don’t think my bro would mind me saying that, but I was the Wizard between the two of us while he’s play more of the supportive Fred Savage role, feeding me tips from Nintendo Power if we had it. Beating a game in a weekend was something I prided myself on being able to do, and rarely if ever did we rent a game twice.
It’s funny that now I can beat Double Dragon in roughly a half an hour but back then a game like that I’d be absorbed in for an entire weekend and maybe still not beat it.
I’m talking so much about Video Box/game renting memories and less about Mappy Land because Mappy Land wasn’t an especially good game. It’s not an especially memorable game, save for its clowny, cartoony graphics, which is probably why I think more about Video Box than the game itself when I think of it, heh. I can’t remember anything about the game itself except I think that my brother made fun of me because Mappy Land was my pick for whatever weekend we rented it, probably against his advice. You always rolled the dice when it came to games you had never heard of or played, and sometimes it made for great memories, sometime it made for Mappy Land.