Bank Panic

Sega console exclusive

Bandits are holding up a bank and have taken people hostage, and as a gunslinger, it's your job to shoot them. The bank has 12 doors, and the bandits are behind each one of them. When they pull a gun out at you when you open a door, you have only a few seconds to shoot them before they shoot you. If you shoot them too early (ie: before he sticks his gun out at you), it is considered unfair, and you won't score any points, but if you're too late, he'll shoot you and you lose one of your three lives.If you waste too much time, a bandit will come out from one of the doors and stick dynamite on it. You must then shoot the dynamite to get rid of it.

Released: 1984
Platforms: Arcade MSX Master System SG-1000 Sega Master System/Mark III ZX Spectrum
Genres: Arcade Shoot 'em up Shooter Western
Developers: Sanritsu Denki
Publishers: —
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: First person
Themes: Action
Country: Japan
Languages: English

About

Bank Panic is a 1984 shooter game developed by Sanritsu Denki and published by Sega for Japanese and European arcades; in North America, it was distributed by Bally Midway. The player assumes the role of an Old West sheriff who must protect a bank and its customers from masked robbers.

Keywords

western
wild west
time limit
duel
robbery
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Media

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Gameplay

Controls consist of a two-position joystick and three buttons to fire at the left, center, and right positions. The layout of the bank is implicitly a circle with twelve numbered doors and the player in the center. The player can rotate to the left or right using the joystick, viewing three doors at a time, and shoot at a door by pressing the button corresponding to its position. The doors will open to reveal one of the following:

A customer, who will make a deposit by dropping a bag of money onto the counter.

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Bank Panic as the second most successful table arcade unit of October 1984.

Computer and Video Games magazine gave the arcade version of Bank Panic a positive review, calling it a well-designed game. They later noted the game is similar to Nintendo's Hogan's Alley, which was released in the same year. Computer Gamer magazine wrote that the "colourful and humurous [sic] graphics make this an enjoyable, if simple in concept, game".

Legacy

West Bank is a clone from Dinamic Software for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, MSX and Amstrad CPC. A clone for Atari 8-bit computers

was released in 1992 as Bang! Bank!

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Platform	Released	Regions
Arcade	28 September 1984	Japan
SG-1000	31 December 1985	Japan
Sega Master System/Mark III	31 December 1986	North America
MSX	31 December 1986	Japan

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