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Gals Panic

Description

The game plays very similarly to Qix - you control a "line" that must avoid monsters: spiders in screen 1, flames and the sun in screen 2, and a rotating 3d triangle in screen 3 that splits into tons of little figures, including a careening stick of butter, at one point.

The game features six different 'gals' to choose from and a chance to win bonuses between rounds.

Gals Panic was produced by Kaneko in 1990.

Kaneko released 41 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1982. Kaneko was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Kaneko during the time period Gals Panic was produced include: DJ Boy, Vs. Gong Fight, Jump Coaster, Fly-Boy, Red Clash, Air Buster, Jackie Chan The Kung-Fu Master, Berlin Wall, Magical Crystals, and B. Rap Boys

Specs

Name	Gals Panic
Developer	Kaneko (Japan)
Year	1990
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	7902
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Adult
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA
Dipswitch Settings	Gals Panic Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Competitive
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right) Buttons: 1 - Draw
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Instructions	Gals Panic Instructions Image
PCB	Gals Panic PCB Image

Game Introduction

The game's idea is to block out the area AROUND the girls' silhouette - advancing the meter towards blue - before revealing too much of the girl - which advances the meter towards yellow. If you reveal the girl right away, she loudly says "YOU SUCK" and you lose points in the Blue/Yellow meter on top. Run the meter down into the yellow and the girl CHANGES into either an Octopus, Samurai, Lamb Lady, Pumpkin, Alligator or other 'icky' thing, and you don't get bonus points for completing the round.

Game Play

You draw lines on the screen to block out sections. Your player is safe as long as it remains on the edge of a bloacked off section but must avoid monsters such as spiders, suns and pyramids when it is off of the edge and drawing a line. The player looses a life if a monster contacts either the player or the line it is drawing. Block off 80 percent of the screen to advance to the next stage. The bonus round features a Price Is Right style spining wheel which you stop with the botton and win a bonus.

Gals Panic KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.50 (1 vote)

Fun Factor: 4.00

Overall Like	5.00
Fun (Social)	5.00
Fun (Solo)	2.00
Collector Desire	3.00

Technical Rating: 3.00

Gameplay	3.00
Graphics	3.00
Originality	3.00
Sound/Music	3.00

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Miscellaneous

The girls talk to you when you choose them and when you complete bonus points by trapping the various spinning figures and gaining other goodies. A hamburger, a bell, and a clock are all treats to eat that either give more points or, in the clock's case, freezes the monsters. They each have a little phrase when you pick them - "Be gentle," "You got me," "I love you" and "All right!" - that they use to coax you through the rounds. One of the girls has a rock band poster behind her and appears to be 'in college.'

One of the girls - the first one - starts out screen 1 in a wedding dress with a stained glass window of a church behind her! Screen 2 has her without the wedding dress but not naked. At the end of the third screen, the cartoon girl is revealed topless, and that pic morphs into her REAL semi-nude pic on which the cartoon screen was rendered. The game is "adult" in this way.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Gals Panic Census

There are 15,275 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,671 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,969 machines (6,998 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 106 known instances of this machine owned by Gals Panic collectors who are active members. Of these, 5 of them are original dedicated machines. 6 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 95 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 4 active VAPS members with a Gals Panic machines for sale. There are 11 active VAPS members with a Gals Panic circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

This game ranks a 35 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Legacy

Manuals

Operation Manual - Gals Panic Manual — **Operation Manual**
(8 pages, 102 kB File)

Gals Panic - Manual (alt scan - Incomplete) - Gals Panic Manual — **Gals Panic - Manual (alt scan - Incomplete)**
(4 pages, 756 kB File)

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