This article is about the Game & Watch game. For Mr. Game & Watch's down special move in theSuper Smash Bros. series, seeMr. Game & Watch. For themicrogame fromWarioWare: Touched!, seeGame & Watch Oil Panic.

Game & Watch Gallery's Classic version (left) and Modern version (right) fromGame & Watch Gallery

Oil Panic is a dual-screenGame & Watch game released as part of the Multi Screen series on May 28, 1982. It was remade forGame & Watch Gallery, in which it can be played in either Classic Mode or Modern Mode. It is also one of the games in theMuseum inGame & Watch Gallery 2.WarioWare: Touched! additionally features amicrogame based onOil Panic titledGame & Watch Oil Panic as well as a similar microgame titledDrop in a Bucket.

Gameplay[edit]

Classic version[edit]

The game is set in a gas station where a leaky pipe is dripping oil. The Station Helper must collect these drops in a bucket and dump them into his boss's oil drum so that he may take them to the cars waiting beside the defunct gas pumps. The Station Helper also needs to be quick, as the dripping oil is right above flammable sources that cause a major fire if the droplets make contact with them (specifically, a smoking ashtray as well as two lit stoves). The bucket can hold only three drops of oil. For every drop of oil the Station Helper catches, he receives apoint. He earns a point for dumping one drop of oil into the oil drum, two points for dumping two drops, and five points for dumping three drops. As the game progresses, the oil drips faster. If a drop is missed, if the bucket overflows, or if the Station Helper dumps his bucket on a customer instead of in his boss's drum, he loses one of four lives. If the player earns 300 points without any misses, another boss with an oil drum appears for 20 to 30 seconds, and any oil the Station Helper dumps into either boss's oil drum is worth double points. If the player has any misses at said score, all misses are removed instead. This game uses two miss counters: one for missed or overflowing oil, and the other for spilling the oil onto customers. If the player gets three misses from either of those categories, they receive aGame Over.

Modern version[edit]

The Modern version is even farther from the original in thatBowser is actively dumping the oil from on top of acastle, forcingMario to collect it in not one but two buckets and give it toYoshi for removal. Even if Yoshi is not close enough to Mario when he dumps oil to him, Yoshi can still catch it with his tongue. In this version, Mario earns three points for feeding Yoshi three drops of oil, six points for four drops, seven points for five drops, and 10 points for six drops. If Mario feeds Yoshi six drops of oil when Yoshi is on the edge of one side of the castle, he blows afireball that creates aRotating Block. If he creates four Rotating Blocks on the castle's left side, he scales them and blasts Bowser away from the castle, awarding the player 15 points. If Yoshi creates a Rotating Block on the castle's right side and blows a fireball on it, it releasescoins for bonus points. If Yoshi is not facing the proper direction, the oil instead falls on eitherLuigi orDonkey Kong Jr. below, angering whichever one it hits. If the player has any misses at 200, 500, or 700 points, a? Block appears on the castle's right side, and if Yoshi blows a fireball on it, it releases aheart, which removes a miss if Mario catches it. However, if the player gets a miss before Yoshi blows a fireball on the ? Block, the block disappears. The Modern version also features music, with the tempo changing depending on the speed of the game.

Controls[edit]

Classic version[edit]

• (left and right): Move
• : Move left
• : Move right

Modern version[edit]

• (left and right): Move
• and: Spin

Gallery[edit]

Modern version[edit]

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  Mario

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  Yoshi

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  Yoshi blowing afireball

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  Yoshi throwing anegg

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  Yoshi spittingwatermelon seeds

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  Yoshi shooting a laser gun

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  Bowser

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  Donkey Kong Jr.

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  Luigi

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  Rotating Block

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  Coin

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  ? Block

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  1 UP Heart

Miscellaneous[edit]

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  Artwork depicting the Modern version ofOil Panic

Names in other languages[edit]

Notes[edit]

Oil Panic coverage on otherNIWA wikis:

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NintendoWiki

• The Classic version of this game depicts itsSuper Game Boy border as if the original game was released in the New Wide Screen series, despite being released only in the Multi Screen series.
• In the Modern version ofOil Panic, Yoshi blasts Bowser away from the castle in one of four ways: blowing a fireball at him, laying anegg and throwing it at him, spittingwatermelon seeds at him, or shooting him with a laser gun.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Oil Panic info page on In The Attic, a website dedicated to classic videogames (Internet Archive: Wayback Machine)

• Game & Watch Gallery minigames