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He looked back, saying "I also found out later about the bug that raises the number of remaining lives to 255, and I felt sorry for the people at the game arcades", and he states that in his game development from then on he debugged thoroughly.
In the Gamest Mook The Best Game (1991), it placed 56th in a popularity poll of Gamest readers covering all arcade games.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the four reviewers gave 8, 5, 6, and 6, for a total of 25 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine,it scored 19.3 out of 30, as shown below.
Computer and Video Games later rated the ColecoVision version 81% and Atari VCS version 77% in 1989.
The game designer was Kazutoshi Ueda, who had worked on the company's Lady Bug (1981).
The version included in "Arcade Memories Vol.3" for the Egret II Mini, released on 2024-12-19, is a port of this version with the bug, it being for home use.
He looked back, saying "I also found out later about the bug that raises the number of remaining lives to 255, and I felt sorry for the people at the game arcades", and he states that in his game development from then on he debugged thoroughly.
It is the first arcade video game to be released as a conversion kit for other cabinets; Taito published the conversion kit in Japan.
All but Dan Hsu felt that Mr. Do! has fun gameplay, but they criticized the lack of enhancements to what was by then over a decade old game, and recommended that players only get it if it were released at significantly less than the normal retail price for an SNES cartridge.
Mr. Do! is credited as the first arcade game to be released as a conversion kit.
It was originally developed as "Hammer Van", and while the unicorn already appeared at that stage, Mr. Do was not present.
The French game company PixelHeart announced a Neo Geo CD port of this game in 2023 after retitling it Punky Circus, and released a home Neo Geo (AES) version in 2024 and a Neo Geo CD version in 2025.
The arcade game was also a commercial success in North America, where it became the best-selling conversion kit up until 1984, selling approximately 30,000 arcade units in the United States.
All but Dan Hsu felt that Mr. Do! has fun gameplay, but they criticized the lack of enhancements to what was by then over a decade old game, and recommended that players only get it if it were released at significantly less than the normal retail price for an SNES cartridge.
Computer and Video Games magazine gave the arcade original a positive review, stating that it "takes the best from" Dig Dug and said that improves on it.
In 1995, Flux magazine ranked the arcade version 67th on their "Top 100 Video Games" list.
In the location test just before the retail version was released it was given the provisional name "Mr. Do's Castle", and this later became the title of the overseas version.
Game Machine later listed Mr. Do! on their June 15, 1983 issue as being the 21st highest-earning table arcade cabinet of the month.
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