Oil Panic
Bowser is dropping oil into a castle, and Mario must use two buckets to catch the oil before it touches the floor. Yoshi serves to dispense oil and can even be used to take out Bowser from the top of the…
Oil Panic is an arcade developed by Nintendo, released 1 February 1997 on Game Boy.
What Oil Panic is
Oil Panic is an arcade game developed by Nintendo and released in 1997. It is available on Game Boy only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Bowser is dropping oil into a castle, and Mario must use two buckets to catch the oil before it touches the floor. Yoshi serves to dispense oil and can even be used to take out Bowser from the top of the castle, gaining bonus points in the process. In Classic Mode, the Station Helper must collect oil dripping from the ceiling of a gas station in one bucket and dump it to his boss before the bucket overflows.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Mario series
Oil Panic is the 163rd of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Manhole in 1997.
What it launched against
Oil Panic launched on 1 February 1997, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII (1997), Theme Hospital and Money Puzzle Exchanger.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII (1997), Theme Hospital, Money Puzzle Exchanger.
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