Bank Panic

Bank Panic

released on Sep 28, 1984

Bank Panic

released on Sep 28, 1984

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. If you're lucky, either a man or a woman will throw you a bag of gold coins. If you shoot any of these people by accident, you also lose a life. More often than not, the person will throw his/her hands up, saying "I haven't got anything". That's when they will be replaced by bandits. Some men will carry three to five pieces of gold on top of their heads, and shooting at all of the gold will award you with a bag of gold coins. Others will be tied up with rope. If you shoot the rope, there's more money for you, because not only will you receive one bag of gold coins, but you'll get three bags of gold coins.


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Western themed shooting gallery with nice art and music.

retroachievements is cool because it helps you find cool gems like these before beating you senseless with a baseball bat

Quite possibly one of my favorite early Sega arcade games. You control a gunman protecting a bank, by looking over at a set of three doors at once, shooting outlaws as soon as they pop in, making sure they aren't innocents, while also defending the place from the occasional hazards like time bombs. Very addicting, has a lot of surprisingly deep score mechanics, and can get really wild on later levels.

I'd love to see this game get re-released, but I'm sure people would get pissed off because the main BGM is Dixieland...