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Panic Space

The second game to be released as a coverdisk special for the Japanese Famimaga magazine. Panic Space is a game based around the laser deflection puzzles that are common in games in the Zelda series as well as…

19 October 1990

Panic Space is a puzzle, released 19 October 1990 on Super Famicom and Family Computer Disk System.

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What Panic Space is

Panic Space was released in 1990. It is available on Super Famicom and Family Computer Disk System.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The second game to be released as a coverdisk special for the Japanese Famimaga magazine. Panic Space is a game based around the laser deflection puzzles that are common in games in the Zelda series as well as others. Panic Space, or Famimaga Disk Vol. 2 Panic Space, is a puzzle game in which the goal is to reflect a laser to an exit panel in order to open the way to the next stage. The laser cannot hit any of the stage's surrounding wall: were it do so, it would cause the level to explode and the player to lose a life (from an initial allotment of five, though this can be increased while playing the game). Much of the time the various reflectors (which send the beam off at a 90 degree…
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How it plays

Its themes are science fiction.

What it launched against

Panic Space launched on 19 October 1990, within three weeks of The Secret of Monkey Island, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe and Review: Jashin Fukkatsu.

Released around the same time: The Secret of Monkey Island, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, Review: Jashin Fukkatsu.

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When did Panic Space come out?
Panic Space was released on 19 October 1990 for Super Famicom and Family Computer Disk System.

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