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|developer=[[Nintendo EntertainmentResearch Analysis and& Development|Nintendo EAD1]]

|platforms=[[Game & Watch]], [[Mini Classics]]

'''''Oil Panic''''' is a dual-screen [[Game & Watch]] game released as a part of the Multi Screen series on May 28, 1982.<ref>[http://www.intheattic.co.uk/oil_panic.htm ''Oil Panic'' info page on In The Attic, a website dedicated to classic videogames] Retrieved 13 November 2010</ref> It was the first game in the Multi Screen series. It was remade for the [[Game Boy]] title ''[[Game & Watch Gallery]]'', in which it could be played in either Classic Mode or Modern Mode. It is also one of the games in the [[Museum]] in ''[[Game & Watch Gallery 2]]''.

[[File:Oil Panic OP-51 Bell2.gif|thumb|left|The alarm policeman]]The alarm indicator of this game is a policeman that is located in the lower screen, under the lower screen's miss counter, and the policeman swings a bell when the alarm goes off.

The game is set in a gas station where a leaky pipe is dripping oil. AThe stationStation employeeHelper must collect these drops in a bucket and dump them into his boss's oil drum so that he may take them to the cars waiting beside the defunct gas pumps. HeThe Station Helper also needs to be quick, as the dripping oil is right above flammable sources that will cause a major fire if the droplets mademake contact with them (specifically, a smoking ashtray as well as two lit stoves). The bucket can hold only three drops of oil. For every drop of oil the employeeStation Helper catches, he receives a [[point]]. He earns a point for dumping one drop of oil into the oil drum, two points for dumping two drops, and five points for dumping three drops. As the game progresses, the oil will drip faster. If a drop is missed, if the bucket overflows, or if the employeeStation Helper dumps his bucket on a customer instead of in his boss's drum, he loses one of four lives. If the player earns 300 points without any misses, another boss with an oil drum will appear for 20 to 30 seconds, and any oil the Station Helper dumps into either boss's oil drum will be worth double points. If the player has any misses at said score, all misses will be removed instead. This game uses two miss counters: one for missed or overflowing oil, and the other for spilling the oil onto customers. If the player gets three misses from either of those categories, they receive a [[Game Over]].

The Modern version is even farther from the original in that [[Bowser]] is actively dumping the oil from on top of a [[castle]], forcing [[Mario]] to collect it in not one but two buckets and give it to [[Yoshi]] for removal. Even if Yoshi is not close enough to Mario when he dumps oil to him, Yoshi can still catch it with his tongue. TheIn playerthis receivesversion, 10Mario pointsearns afterthree eachpoints timefor Mario feedsfeeding Yoshi twothree bucketfulsdrops of oil, six points for four drops, seven points for five drops, and 10 points for six drops. If thisMario happensfeeds Yoshi six drops of oil when Yoshi is on the edge of one side of the castle, he will blow a [[fireball]] that will create a [[Rotating Block]]. If he creates four Rotating Blocks on the castle's left side, he will scale them and blast Bowser away from the castle, awarding the player 15 points. If Yoshi creates a Rotating Block on the castle's right side and blows a fireball on it, it will release [[coin]]s for bonus points. If Yoshi is not facing the proper direction, the oil will instead fall on either [[Luigi]] or [[Donkey Kong Jr.]] below, angering whichever one it hits. If the player has any misses at 200, 500, or 700 points, a [[? Block]] will appear on the castle's right side, and if Yoshi blows a fireball on it, it will release a [[1 UP Heart|heart]], which removes a miss if Mario catches it. However, if the player gets a miss before Yoshi blows a fireball on the ? Block, the block will disappear. The Modern version also features music, with the tempo changing depending on the speed of the game.

*{{button|gb|A}} and {{button|gb|Bb}}: Move left or right

*{{button|gb|A}} and {{button|gb|B}}: Spin

Because of the [[Nintendo DS]]'s dual- screens, another port of ''Oil Panic'' was released in ''[[Game & Watch Collection]]''. Unlike the ''Game & Watch Gallery'' versions, this incarnation is exactly the same as the original ''Oil Panic''.

*In the Modern version of ''Oil Panic'', Yoshi blasts Bowser away from the castle in one of four ways: blowing a fireball at him, laying an [[Yoshi's Egg|egg]] and throwing it at him, spitting [[watermelon]] seeds at him, or shooting him with a laser gun.

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