Panic!

The game involves pressing numerous buttons in order to transverse a young boy, called Slap, or his dog, called Stick, through a complex labyrinth. It is one of the few Sega CD games that supports the Sega Mega Mouse.

• Title — Panic! • Developer — Sega Office I • Producer — Hajime Tabe • Artist — Renzo Kinoshita • Composer — Kei Tani • Released — Sega CD PlayStation 2 August 8, 2002 • Genre — Puzzle Point and click • Modes — Single player • Platforms — Sega CD, PlayStation 2

During the intro, the game explains that a virus has infected the world's computer systems. Slap and his dog Stick (who has been sucked into his TV) must carry an antidote to the central computer to fix it. To this end, Slap and Stick must traverse a grid of levels, pushing buttons to advance.

Each level is presented as a new area with a mechanical device, and a set of buttons to press. Each button causes a humorous surrealist animation and/or teleports Slap to another room. Sometimes the buttons are booby-trapped and cause the destruction of a variety of monuments. The grid also features a few game overs, marked by flashing skulls on the map. The buttons themselves have no indication on what they do when pressed. It is possible to backtrack into previous levels, and buttons once pressed are not marked, unless they were booby-trapped. The game's pause menu features a map of the rooms and how the player has progressed on them — though with no indication of the path or what lead to where — and the player must reach the bottom of the map to win the game.

Two stages were removed for the North American release: Level 2-B, a scene with a cigarette machine, and Level 9-B, featuring a Japanese typewriter. The level 12-D sends the player to the Japanese Mega-CD BIOS screen, but this scene was not changed in the North American version and still showed the Japanese BIOS screen instead of the American one.