Panic!
Y
ou never were the sort of person that could
wait for new technology, but this time you feel
like you might have made a bit of a mistake by
jumping in early. Your impor ted Mega - CD cost
a fortune, and the games haven’t been remarkable so far.
Desperate for things to play, you turn to the Mean Machines
Sega book you picked up a little while ago, and happen upon
this. You can’t work out what’s going on, but it scored well and
it looks a bit like Monty Python, so you take the plunge.
After an intro you totally don’t get, the boy is confronted by
an ordinary living room and a bank of buttons. You hit one. The
vacuum cleaner suddenly sprouts teeth and begins eating the
scenery, before chasing your little guy off the screen! Is the
game over already? Thankfully not – now you’re back to the
screen with all the buttons, and you can’t wait to see what the
rest of them do. PLATFORM: MEGACD RELEASED: SEGA/OFFICE I DEVELOPER: 19 93This bizarre game casts you as
the young boy Slap (owner of a
dog named Stick, naturally), who
has been tasked with fixing the
world’s central computer after
every bit of technology goes
haywire at once. In order to do
this, you must push a series of
buttons to navigate a complex
maze – most will just make
odd things happen, some will
transport Slap around the maze,
and others blow up monuments.
Sega published the game in
Japan under the name Switch,
but left the US release to Data
East. Surprisingly, a Japan-only
PlayStation 2 conversion was
released in 2002.BIO
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