Panic!

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Panic!

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

Publisher: Sega

Data East (US)

Developer: Sega CS, Office I.

Wave Master

Peripherals supported:

Sega Mouse

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

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1993-04-23	¥8,8008,800	G-6009
US	1994-09^[1]		T-13015
JP	2002-08-29^[2]	¥5,800 (6,090)5,800 (6,090)^[2]	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.

Versions

Localised names

Also known as
Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English (US)	Panic!	Panic!
Japanese	スイッチ	Switch

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

Magazine articles

Main article: Panic!/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in EGM² (US) #5: "November 1994" (1994-1x-xx)
also published in:

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #65: "December 1994" (1994-xx-xx)^[3]

Print advert in Sega Visions (US) #22: "December/January 1994/1995" (1994-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Mega-CD version

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Beep! MegaDrive (JP)

NTSC-J

73

^[9]

Computer & Video Games (UK)

NTSC-J

87

^[4]

Electronic Games (1992-1995) (US)

NTSC-U

50

^[10]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

58

^[11]

Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide (UK)

90

^[12]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

70

^[13]

Game Players (US)

NTSC-U

82

^[14]

Game Power (IT)

NTSC

70

^[15]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

40

^[16]

Game Informer (US)

NTSC-U

11

^[17]

Game Informer (US)

NTSC-U

22

^[18]

MAN!AC (DE)

NTSC

68

^[19]

Mega (UK)

NTSC-J

50

^[20]

Mega Action (UK)

NTSC-J

85

^[21]

MegaTech (UK)

NTSC-J

90

^[22]

Mean Machines Sega (UK)

NTSC-J

70

^[5]

Next Generation (US)

NTSC-U

25

^[6]

Sega Power (UK)

PAL

55

^[23]

Sega Pro (UK)

NTSC-J

86

^[24]

Sega Pro (UK)

NTSC-U

42

^[25]

Sega Force Mega (UK)

NTSC-J

75

^[26]

Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

73

^[27]

VideoGames (US)

NTSC-U

90

^[8]

	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
Disc

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

587,092,128

CD(JP)

G-6009

External links

Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): PlayStation 2
Switch on PlayStation.com

References

↑ File:GamePlayers US 0710.pdf, page 10
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 http://www.jp.playstation.com/software/title/slpm65121.html (Wayback Machine: 2007-08-18 17:09)
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "December 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 141
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 File:CVG UK 142.pdf, page 88 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 142.pdf_p88" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 File:MeanMachinesSega10UK.pdf, page 54 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesSega10UK.pdf_p54" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 File:NextGeneration US 02.pdf, page 101 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:NextGeneration US 02.pdf_p101" defined multiple times with different content
↑ File:SegaForceMega UK 03.pdf, page 56
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 File:VideoGames US 71.pdf, page 84 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:VideoGames US 71.pdf_p84" defined multiple times with different content
↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "May 1993" (JP; 1993-04-08), page 25
↑ 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
↑ MAN!AC, "01/95" (DE; 1994-12-07), page 88
↑ Mega, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-21), page 58
↑ Mega Action, "August 1993" (UK; 1993-07-15), page 30
↑ MegaTech, "July 1993" (UK; 1993-06-19), page 44
↑ Sega Power, "February 1995" (UK; 1994-12-15), page 72
↑ Sega Pro, "August 1993" (UK; 1993-07-08), page 59
↑ Sega Pro, "April 1995" (UK; 1995-02-23), page 44
↑ Sega Force Mega, "October 1993" (UK; 1993-08-19), page 118
↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 86

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0710.pdf_p10-1] File:GamePlayers US 0710.pdf, page 10

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[:File:EGM_US_065.pdf_p141-3] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "December 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 141

[:File:CVG_UK_142.pdf_p88-4] 4.0 ^4.1 File:CVG UK 142.pdf, page 88 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 142.pdf_p88" defined multiple times with different content

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[:File:SegaForceMega_UK_03.pdf_p56-7] File:SegaForceMega UK 03.pdf, page 56

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[:File:BeepMD_JP_1993-05.pdf_p25-9] Beep! MegaDrive, "May 1993" (JP; 1993-04-08), page 25

[:File:ElectronicGames2_US_25.pdf_p116-10] Electronic Games (1992-1995), "October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 116

[:File:EGM_US_063.pdf_p34-11] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 34

[:File:MeanMachinesEssentialSegaGuide_Book_UK.pdf_p126-12] Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 126

[13] Famitsu, "1993-04-30" (JP; 1993-04-16), page 39

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0801.pdf_p62-14] Game Players, "Vol. 8 No. 1 January 1995" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 62

[:File:GamePower_IT_20.pdf_p98-15] Game Power, "Settembre 1993" (IT; 1993-0x-xx), page 98

[:File:GamePro_US_072.pdf_p51-16] GamePro, "July 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 51

[:File:GameInformer_US_021.pdf_p42-17] Game Informer, "January 1995" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 42

[:File:GameInformer_US_082.pdf_p80-18] Game Informer, "February 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 80

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_1995-01.pdf_p88-19] MAN!AC, "01/95" (DE; 1994-12-07), page 88

[:File:Mega_UK_14.pdf_p58-20] Mega, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-21), page 58

[:File:MegaAction_UK_03.pdf_p30-21] Mega Action, "August 1993" (UK; 1993-07-15), page 30

[:File:MegaTech_UK_19.pdf_p44-22] MegaTech, "July 1993" (UK; 1993-06-19), page 44

[:File:SegaPower_UK_63.pdf_p72-23] Sega Power, "February 1995" (UK; 1994-12-15), page 72

[:File:SegaPro_UK_22.pdf_p59-24] Sega Pro, "August 1993" (UK; 1993-07-08), page 59

[:File:SegaPro_UK_43.pdf_p44-25] Sega Pro, "April 1995" (UK; 1995-02-23), page 44

[:File:SegaForceMega_UK_03.pdf_p118-26] Sega Force Mega, "October 1993" (UK; 1993-08-19), page 118

[:File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf_p86-27] Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 86

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Panic!

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Contents

Versions

Localised names

Production credits

Mega-CD version

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Mega-CD version

PlayStation 2 version

Technical information

ROM dump status

External links

References