Panic! (known as Switch! in Japan) is a video game for the Mega-CD that involves pressing numerous buttons in order to transverse a young boy, called Slap, or his dog, called Stick, through a complex labyrinth. The game was originally released in Japan, and had some risque "gags" that were assumed to be edited out if the game ever got a North American release. However, in 1994, Data East USA decided to publish the game in North America for the Sega CD, renamed but otherwise uncut, except for two deleted stages: Level 2-B, a scene with a cigarette machine, excluded because of the tobacco reference, and Level 9-B, featuring a Japanese typewriter. The level 12-D is notorious for sending the player to the Japanese Mega-CD BIOS screen, but this scene was not changed in the American version and still showed the Japanese BIOS screen instead of the American one. The game is compatible with the Sega Mega Mouse. In 2002, the game was released for the PlayStation 2.
During the intro, the game explains that a virus has infected the world's computer systems. Slap and and his dog Stick (who has been sucked into his TV) must carry an antidote to the central computer to fix it. To this end, Slap and Stick must traverse a grid of levels, pushing buttons to advance.
A virus has infected the world's computer network, which effects all electronical devices on the earth. However, a special program called "Panic!" is designed to counter the effects of the virus and restore the network back to working order. You play Slap the Boy and his sidekick, Stick the Dog(they're not actions, it's their names) who set out to restore the network back to working order.
This is not a conventional video game; it's more like an interactive movie/cartoon in which you press certain buttons to advance the plot, or make different stuff happen.
Sega deemed it so popular that it was re-released in 2002 for the PlayStation 2, in Japan only. For the most part, the game is exactly the same. However, the scenes of famous landmarks blowing up have been replaced by fully computer animated videos of the same famous landmarks having diarrhea.
MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:
Popular comical action of Mega CD appeared to PS2. Upon transplantation, sound and graphics is powered up, the valley appointed Kay to the voice of the main character. Press the switch on the screen, is a clear stage If it is correct, surreal production occurs each time you press the switch. Let's destroy the mother computer that manages the world began to cause a malfunction.
FEATURES:
- Third person perspective.
- 2D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- SCIFI, Fantasy & Humour themes.
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