Panic!

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Panic!

System(s): Sega Mega-CD, PlayStation 2

Publisher: Sega

Data East (US)

Developer: Sega CS2, Office I.

Wave Master

Peripherals supported:

Sega Mouse

Genre: Other (box), Adventure (master list)

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1993-04-23	¥8,8008,800	G-6009
US	1993		T-13015
JP	2002-08-29	¥5,8005,800	SLPM-65121

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Panic!, called Switch (スイッチ) in Japan, is a 1993 point-and-click adventure game by Sega for the Sega Mega-CD. You play as a cartoon boy who interacts with various different environments to save the world. Each object you interact with has a humorous/absurd effect. It is not related to Double Switch, a later Mega CD game.

A working title of the North American translation appears to have been Haywire. Promotional material showed that the game was rated MA-17 by the VRC, but the final release was rated by the ESRB instead.

It was later remade on the PlayStation 2 in Japan.

Production Credits

Mega CD Version

Panic! Staff Credits

Producer: Hajime Tabe
Graphics: Renzo Kinoshita
Music: Kei Tani
Human Sound Effects: Kent Flick
Production: Office I.
Musical Production: Milestone Music Publishing, Inc.
Voice Actors & Actresses: Fuyumi Shiraishi, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Rie Shibata, Masahiro Sato, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Masami Hisamoto
Game Design: Tomohiro Kondo, Katsuo Murata
Game Coordination: Tomohiro Kondo, Chie Yoshida
Tool Programming: Yuichiro Mine, Kenji Murayama
Tool Operation: Tomohiro Kondo, Katsuo Murata
System Programming: Akihito Wada, Yuichiro Mine, Hiroshi Okamoto
Game Programming: Yuichiro Mine, Akihito Wada, Hiroshi Okamoto, Kenji Murayama, Yasutomo Kamei, Hiroaki Sakamoto
Game Programming Assistants: Takayuki Iida, Kenji Sato, Kazuyuki Mukaida, Shin Futakawame, Ken-ichi Yokoo
Graphic Design: Chie Yoshida, Jina Ishiwatari, Katsufumi Yoshimori, Satoshi Yokokawa, Kiyomi Shimazawa, Masami Hayashi, Keiichi Matate, Masayuki Hasegawa, Kumi Hasegawa, Koichi Sasaki, Masahiro Unno, Hironori Saka, Kentaro Yoshida, Akinori Nishiyama, Kazuyuki Hoshino, Shiro Kinemura
Sound: Hiroshi Kubota, Masaru Setsumaru, Tomoko Sasaki, Shinji Kawahira
Sound Support: Masaki Araki (Agrex Co., Ltd.)
Testers: Mutsuhiro Fujii, Mitsutoshi Ozato, Tsuneo Shiga, Kei Takashima, Satoshi Tachibana
Supervisors: Makoto Oshitani, Toshinori Asai, Yukio Sato, Hiroyuki Kawaguchi, Tokuhiko Uwabo
Programming Cooperetion: Agrex Co., Ltd.
Design Cooperation: Es Yu Es Corporation, A WAVE Inc.
Music Cooperation: Watanabe Music Publishing Co., Ltd., Solid Gold Co., Ltd., Locker Room Co., Ltd.

American Localization Team

Data East U.S.A., Inc.

Script: Ravi Gadhia
Project Coordinator: Peter Stern
Voice‑over Coordinator: David Hoffman

Sega of America

Project Supervisor: Adam Sevillia
Sound Engineer: Barry Blum
Translation: Yukimi Shimura
Writers: Adam Sevillia & David Albert
Voice Actors: Randy Merzon & Dennis McIntyre
Produced by: Sega Enterprises Co., Ltd., Office 1

Promotional Material

Panic MCD US PrintAdvert.jpg

US print advert

Physical Scans

Mega CD Version

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Beep! MegaDrive (JP)

NTSC-J

73

^[3]

Computer & Video Games (UK)

NTSC-J

87

^[4]

Electronic Games (1992-1995) (US)

NTSC-U

50

^[5]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

58

^[6]

Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide (UK)

90

^[7]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

70

^[8]

Game Players (US)

NTSC-U

82

^[9]

Game Power (IT)

NTSC

70

^[10]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

40

^[11]

Game Informer (US)

NTSC-U

11

^[12]

Game Informer (US)

NTSC-U

22

^[13]

MAN!AC (DE)

NTSC

68

^[14]

Mega (UK)

NTSC-J

50

^[15]

Mega Action (UK)

NTSC-J

85

^[16]

MegaTech (UK)

NTSC-J

90

^[17]

Mean Machines Sega (UK)

NTSC-J

70

^[1]

Next Generation (US)

NTSC-U

25

^[18]

Sega Power (UK)

PAL

55

^[19]

Sega Pro (UK)

NTSC-J

86

^[20]

Sega Pro (UK)

NTSC-U

42

^[21]

Sega Force Mega (UK)

NTSC-J

75

^[22]

Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

73

^[23]

VideoGames (US)

NTSC-U

90

^[24]

	64
Based on 23 reviews

Panic!

Mega-CD, US
Cover
Disc Manual

Mega-CD, JP
Cover
Spinecard Disc Manual

PlayStation 2 Version

PlayStation 2, JP
Cover

External Links

Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): PlayStation 2
SCEJ catalogue pages (Japanese): PlayStation 2

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File:MeanMachinesSega10UK.pdf, page 54 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesSega10UK.pdf_p54" defined multiple times with different content

↑ File:SegaForceMega UK 03.pdf, page 56

↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "May 1993" (JP; 1993-04-08), page 25

↑ Computer & Video Games, "September 1993" (UK; 1993-08-15), page 88

↑ Electronic Games (1992-1995), "October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 116

↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 34

↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 126

↑ Famitsu, "1993-04-30" (JP; 1993-04-16), page 39

↑ Game Players, "Vol. 8 No. 1 January 1995" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 62

↑ Game Power, "Settembre 1993" (IT; 1993-0x-xx), page 98

↑ GamePro, "July 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 51

↑ Game Informer, "January 1995" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 42

↑ Game Informer, "February 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 80