Played it almost everyday on my break at work. Level 31 was my favorite and I could go thru all 99 levels over and over. I will never forget the first time I won a free credit getting a diamond on level 8.

Best arcade game, ever. Absolutely legendary. NEVER gets enough credit. So much retro lurve for this game!

I was stationed at Mountain Home AFB back in 1995-96. This arcade game was in the third floor break room of our dorm and was free play. Spent countless hours playing this and never knew you could use the "fruit/desert" to phase through a dropping apple (3:51).

This was always one of my favorite games. Arcade and Colecovision. I have an arcade version in my basement to keep the memories going

Brilliant. Who would've thought 1982 factored into so many diverse and iconic games. Played Mr. Do on Colecovision and was by far the most popular.

One thing I remember about playing the arcade version of Mr. Do's Wild Ride is that you could get two free games if you turned the machine off and on and then rotated the joystick three times counter clockwise.

just the sounds of the game send me back to the arcade in the 80's... such grand times :)

I remember playing Mr Do's Castle. It was in the "amusement room" at a hotel on the south side of town that sadly no longer exists.

The dirt path in each level was carved out to form the number of the level as well. Level 2's starting dirt path was shaped like a "2", level 3's level was shaped like a "3", etc.

I was absolutely addicted to this game in the past. Spent literally HOURS on it. One of my all time favourites. I have played all the Mr Do games. Mr Do, Mr Do Wild Ride and Mr Do's Castle.

I love those sounds when you pick up the cherries when the pitch goes up and up and up. It's very satisfying listening to it.

Mr. Do is one of the few games I kick butt on. And that's because it's my favorite and couldn't keep from playing it repeatedly. It's still my favorite video game. It's fast and furious fun. Provided the freakin' joystick works! Also one of the few games you can not only win free lives throughout, but free games with the diamond!

This was one of my all time favorite games. I started playing it on the amazing ColecoAdam version when I was a kid. I held the record for highest level at my day care center while growing up.

For all the hours I've spent playing this game, have never pulled off the death-defying trick at 3:50. That was bloody good!

Mr. Do is a classic, and was well known at the time, but despite having multiple games, and unlike so many of the similar early classics, the game and character haven't had much of a legacy. He feels very stuck in the early 1980s. I can only assume that's because the property was dormant after Universal stopped producing arcade games.

Love Mr. Do! It's way more than a Dig Dug knock off. Going to play this on my Atari XEGS and Super Nintendo for sure :-)

A GREAT mini-doc of one of my absolute favourite games. I thought I knew this game, Pat, but I certainly learned a couple of new things... :-)

Mr. Do’s Castles song is my favorite!

I love how the "Neo Mr. Do!" had cute little cutscenes besides the gameplay! ^^ I think the cutscenes gave Mr. Do alot more character and personality than the other games of just collecting cherries and defeating the enemies getting to the next level. :) I wish they continued it after that one though. :(

Best arcade gamer ever, i put all of my childhood quarters into this game at our local arcade. I love this channel btw x

Played it a few times on arcade back in the days when I was a small kid...later on was a great fan of the C64 version and of course many years later began playing it on mame. Great game still highly playable

Oh and PS: I love your videos, thank you! Reminded me how much I love the classic games and that I have a nice MAME system set up and that playing it makes me smile every time :-) Thank you

Well made trip down memory lane my friend. Mr Do was my very first arcade game i ever played in1982 aged 9, still one of the most frustrating difficult games lol , still playing it today.

I always thought Mr. Do! was one of the cutest games ever. Like Bubble Bobble, it was popular with female players as well.

Excellent video - I did not know about this series. Mr. Do is quickly becoming one of my favorite arcade games.

I used to play this game in the arcade and on Coleco as well

A great classic game, I used to play a pretty decent port on the C64, these days I fire it up on an emu on occasion. Really appreciate your coverage of classic arcade games and retro gaming.

Another great video. Love playing this one.

Subscribed!👍Awesome content! Takes me back to a kiddo in cali, 10yo in 1980 free to wander n explore all the games as they appeared through the years...🔥🔥🔥

Another one of my old faves! All the sequels were really different from the last... I loved Do Run Run the most.

anybody else notice how the original tunnel layout at the beginning of each level is in the shape of the far right number of the level number (2 or 2, 12, 22 etc)

This was a well put together informational video!!!

Another well researched and entertaining documentary.

Definitely a big fan of this game, I loved the gameplay. Thank you for posting this.

I was a huge fan of the first three games back in the day, I didn't even hear about Do Run Run until many years later. On the off chance anyone from Long Island sees this, I remember heading to the arcade in the huge Nathan's restaurant especially, playing both Mr. Do's Castle and Mr. Do's Wild Ride there among so many others. I had the official ports of the first two games on my C64 and loved them, and the unofficial port of Mr. Do's Wild Ride (it was a clone game, called something else, but was identical) was pretty good, too. Also used to head over to my friend's place to play it on his ColecoVision back in the day!

Superb. Thank you very much. I love your channel

Excellent documentary Sir. Subbed!

I only discovered Mr Do a week ago. I have a local arcade that has moved to a free play option, £6.00 and hour or £9.00 for 2-hours. I used to play Bolder Dash on the Nes as a kid so figured it would be fun for a few minutes. I was completely unprepared for the level of depth this game had and the various strategies you can employ. The fact that the gave gives you a choice to advance to the next screen by defeating all the monsters or grabbing all the cherries adds a level of flexibility in play as you can shift from one strategy to the next partway though a level. For friendly competition each arcade game has a white board screen attached listing the top 3-players and their scores. I was able to grab 3rd place today with a respectable score of 53,750 although by the end of the day it had already been bumped off and next week I play to take it back.

worked with my sisters ex on a summer camp and found one of the old cocktail cabinet variants of Mr. Do! Due to lack of care in the whole place it was one of the only machines in any working condition. we got it running after a bit and used to play it on our lunch breaks. Almost had a chance to buy it, but the guy who owned the camp wanted to keep it for the kids, used it as an arts n crafts table unshielded (table was missing the glass tabletop) and one of the kids ruined it by dumping a quart of paint all over it. then the guy insisted we pay him twice our original agreed price. Been itching to play it again ever since.

This is an excellent documentary. Very enjoyable.

Amazing video, Pat! Mr. Do was never on my radar while I was a kid but nowadays these simple, single-screen arcade games appeal to me more and more as the years go by. I'll have to keep my eyes open for a SNES or X68000 copy. Too bad the MSX came out looking so poor. My MSX2+ sure could use another game to play on it.

I grew up playing this game...wow. Thanx for the history trip down memory lane.

I NEVER have seen the games that came after Mr. Do's Castle, much less ever even heard of them. Fascinating! Mr. Do is one of my Top 3 arcade games of all time.

Great video! A small tidbit I can share... Universal still exists, and makes other types of machines, like Pachinko slots, and seems to operate some of their own parlors. I've found some of the tokens from these, and they have Mr. Do on them!

Mr. Do. was one of my all time video games. Along with Donkey Kong ,popeye and Galaga.

TAITO! I have a full size BUGGY CHALLENGE from 1984! Super rare! That was the first off road game!!

The original Mr. Do was one of my favorite arcade games of that era. Never was a fan of any of the sequels.

I played this game today at an arcade near Manchester, England. Pure nostalgia. My brother and i spent many an hour playing this game back in the day. Still great. The arcade is 4 floors of gaming machines. I also played star wars. The old sit in booth type. great

Very cool. Did not know about the glitch that gives you 255 lives!

I grew up in the pool hall my dad owned for 25 years. He always had 2 or 3 arcade games going. In 1985 he got a Mr. Do machine. My brother and I figured out that if you unplug it and then plug it back in, you got a free credit. Needless to say we spent hours playing Mr. Do for free. Too bad Galaga didn’t do the same trick!

My brother and I are big Do fans. However, I always thought there should have been a game about his evil twin "Mr. Don't"

Really well done sir!!!!!!!

I remember on some of the later levels you could go above an apple and wait for it to fall because the monsters were so aggressive with their digging. Although you'd probably need to combine this with another strategy to complete the level without losing a life.

With Mr.Do! (I had it on Atari XL) I particularly like the many interactions and chain reactions of many small objects on a single screen. Things move here less jerky than in Boulder Dash and no scrolling spoils overview. The IMO only other game with such a tight single screen interaction density was "Millipede" (which I had on VCS2600).

Never played this game though i have seen the Neo geo version. This looks like a fun game. The power ball is a cool weapon if you ask me hahah. Great video Patman! Keep it up friend.

I remember getting this on my birthday and was surprised this was too see it again. Haha. I miss the game. I got it an grew up with the SNES. I was surprised to see other Mr. Do games. That's awesome. And I figured me and my family were the only ones who knew about the game. Love the video.

When the engineer came to our local arcade and fixed th broken universal Mr Do! machine, he changed the colours. Instead of the off red Mr Do and apples, they were proper red. Looked MUCH better. Nobody else I ever spoke to has seen this and most think I dreamed it. I didn't. Mr Do! with those washed out colours is *wrong*

We also had a near perfect 8 bit version in the UK on the BBC Microcomputer that was called "Mr. E" to avoid copyright issues.

rw:i bet you already know that everytime that Mr.Do collects the cherries it make the music "Doe ,Ray,Me,Fa,So,LaTea,Doe" in it.

No, no, no! You got it wrong. When the apple drops on Mr. Do!, he becomes Mr. Don't. :) Love Mr. Do! I ended up getting a copy for the SNES.

Also there is an incentive to go after the cherries and octaves. You get more points and every 10,000 points if you turn 10,000 points at the exact time the letter man is one of the lettermen you do need, the letter man comes out for you to shoot him and spell extra. So the more you rack up the cherries the more chances you have to let out the letter man.

greatest game ever i purchased the arcade machine many years ago it gets more play time than my xbox 1 ps5 and switch combined . great video

Man you seem to review most of my favorites. I love mr do, I have been looking for a universal cabinet to put my board in.

Still my all time favorite game. When the retro bug bites, this is the only game that soothes it.

I love your video and this game.

You forgot to mention that Universal was also working on a prototype laserdisc game starring Mr. Do, tentatively named "Adventure Mr. Do". it was planned for release on March 1985 for the Universal System-1 cabinet as a replacement kit for "Super Don Quixote". For further references: www.dragons-lair-project.com/games/pages/sdq.asp www.dragons-lair-project.com/games/materials/flyers/large/sdq_p.jpg

My all time favorite arcade game. Even got to play one over the summer

I still love Do! Run Run to this day! Do! Run Run was more of an conversion for Mr. Do!'s Castle. There was only ONE dedicated arcade cabinet, but no one knows where it is or who has it.

As a trivia note, this arcade game cabinet is as always on display in SAVED BY THE BELL, it could be constantly seen in The Max diner they hung out in. I think it was also on The College Years too

There's an old school arcade not too far from where I live. They have Ladybug, Dig-Dug, Mr. Doo, Mr. Doo's Castle, and a few other classics.

I played the hell out of this on my Atari 800xl.

Good job! Enjoyed that.

I like how you use the word “board” to describe the various levels. That’s such an 80’s word!

Great documentary!

I LOVED MR. DO!!! AND THE MUSIC WAS CLASSIC!!! (my coleco vision youth)

This was one of many games kids on my block played at the local grocery store back in the late 80's. Only one player I saw managed to get the rare diamond bonus. 💎

I Love this game! Played it a ton on ColecoVision, but the SNES version ruled! The SNES version has predictable enemy movements, though...They are more random in MAME and Even More Random in the actual arcade cabinet.

Great video! Either the game. I love Mr. Do! Also Mr. Do's Castle.

I used to love playing this game. It's hard to find anywhere.

trying to pop a diamond and getting it was so satisfying

Out of the Mr. Do sequels, Do! Run Run is my personal favorite. Plays somewhat like an improved version of the original Mr. Do, but with some inspiration taken from Pac-Man and Qix. The graphics are nice and colorful, the gameplay is engaging, and the music is surprisingly good for a 1984 arcade game - it sounds like something from an early 90s Game Boy title

"Mr Do's Castle" looks a lot like "Space Panic" and "Lode Runner".

I used to get the blue monsters "stuck" for some reason by the falling apple. I would eat all the cherries except one, and clear all the grass, them eat that last cherry. I did that a few times. The amount of quarters i spent on this game back in 1983! 😂❤

Great coverage of Mr. Do and its sequels too. It's true, Mr. Do was the best of the series, though part 2 Castle was fun too IMO.

I always thought MrDo was digging in cake. And I loved how each level was a giant number, except level 1, not sure what it’s supposed to be. ._D

Great channel subscribed.

I watch these vids for your take on the c64 port exclusively

Fun fact... The level # is "written" in a path in the grass...

Really cool seeing someone cover the history of a more obscure game. If possible maybe do a video on Xevious at some point, I fuckin’ love me some Xevious

I had and loved the Colecovision version. Good game, but so hard to make precise turns with the stubby controller

I used to think Mr. Do was a fortune teller throwing a crystal ball.

Loved playing this on the game boy back in the day!

A very rare case where all the conversions are decent games. It's surprising that the Mr. Do character didn't become more popular considering how many sequels had his first game.

I never played Mr. Do but I played Mr. Do's Castle on Atari 2600.

The C64 port was pretty good, except the programmer forgot to implement the crucial aspect that when Mr. Do! is digging, he slows down. Made getting scores of over a million very easy. I've never scored more than 350K on the original arcade version!

Mr Do is a masterpiece

Mr Do! is my favourite arcade game of all time. I would love a copy of this for my Switch❤🧡💛💚

My local theater had a Mr. Do machine. Good times.

New sub love your channel brother.. :)

Loved Mr. Do! Wish that I could find a retro pack for the original PlayStation with the first two games along with Pengo.