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'''''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. A station employee 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. He also needs to be quick, as the dripping oil is right above flammable sources that will cause a major fire if the droplets make 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 employee 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 employee dumps his bucket on a customer instead of in his boss's drum, he loses one of four lives.

*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.