# Bank Panic > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Bank_Panic > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Bank_Panic.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Panic > Source revision: 1309351563 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) This article is about the video game. For financial crises involving banks, see **Bank panic**. ***Bank Panic*** (バンクパニック, *Banku Panikku*) is a 1984 [shooter game](/source/Shooter_game) developed by [Sanritsu Denki](/source/Sanritsu_Denki) and published by [Sega](/source/Sega) for Japanese and European [arcades](/source/Arcade_video_game);[3] in North America, it was distributed by [Bally Midway](/source/Midway_Games). The player assumes the role of an [Old West](/source/Old_West) [sheriff](/source/Sheriff) who must protect a [bank](/source/Bank) and its customers from masked robbers. ## Gameplay Controls consist of a two-position [joystick](/source/Joystick) and three buttons to fire at the left, center, and right positions. The layout of the bank is implicitly a circle with twelve numbered doors and the player in the center. The player can rotate to the left or right using the joystick, viewing three doors at a time, and shoot at a door by pressing the button corresponding to its position. The doors will open to reveal one of the following: - A customer, who will make a deposit by dropping a [bag of money](/source/Bag_of_money) onto the counter. - A robber, who will attempt to shoot the player. - A young boy wearing a stack of hats, which the player can rapidly shoot to gain a deposit or bonus time. The level ends once every door has received at least one deposit. If a customer makes a deposit at a door where a bank teller is sitting, the player earns bonus points. The status of each door is indicated by a row of numbered boxes across the top of the screen, with a red dollar sign representing a door that has a completed deposit. A bar gauge above each box shows how close a person is to reaching that door. The disappearance of a dollar sign indicates that a robber has just stolen a deposit; the player must then turn to that door and shoot the robber to recover it. At random intervals, a bomb will be placed on one of the doors and a rapid timer will count down from 99. The player must move to that door and destroy the bomb with gunfire. Shooting a customer, being shot by a robber, failing to destroy a bomb, or failing to complete the level before the overall timer runs out (shown by a bar at the bottom of the screen) costs the player one life. Some robbers will wear white boots; these robbers need to be shot twice to be eliminated. At times, a robber may push a customer aside or duck out of view to avoid the player's gunfire, or a door may open to reveal a customer tied up with rope. In the latter case, the player has a short time to fire one shot and free the customer, who will then make three deposits instead of one; if the player waits too long, a robber pushes the customer aside. Shortly after a robber appears in a doorway, a timer is shown above his head and begins to count quickly up to 0:30 and back down to 0:00, leading to a "FAIR" kill if he is shot during this period. Higher point values are awarded for shooting when the timer is closer to 0:00, but any shot fired before the timer appears leads to an "UNFAIR" kill and a minimum value. At the end of a level, the player earns bonus points for all deposits made and any remaining time, and a further bonus based on the average time of all FAIR kills made during the level. Each time the player shoots a red-shirted robber when the timer displays 0:00, one letter in the word EXTRA is awarded, shown at the bottom of the screen. Completing the word awards a large bonus and an extra life and immediately advances the player to the next level. ## Reception In Japan, *Game Machine* listed *Bank Panic* as the second most successful table arcade unit of October 1984.[4] *[Computer and Video Games](/source/Computer_and_Video_Games)* magazine gave the arcade version of *Bank Panic* a positive review, calling it a well-designed game.[5] They later noted the game is similar to [Nintendo](/source/Nintendo)'s *[Hogan's Alley](/source/Hogan's_Alley_(video_game))*, which was released in the same year.[1] *[Computer Gamer](/source/Computer_Gamer)* magazine wrote that the "colourful and [*sic*] graphics make this an enjoyable, if simple in concept, game".[6] ## Legacy *West Bank* is a clone from [Dinamic Software](/source/Dinamic_Software) for the [ZX Spectrum](/source/ZX_Spectrum),[7] [Commodore 64](/source/Commodore_64), [MSX](/source/MSX) and [Amstrad CPC](/source/Amstrad_CPC). A clone for [Atari 8-bit computers](/source/Atari_8-bit_computers) was released in 1992 as *Bang! Bank!*[8] ## References 1. ["Arcade Action: Hogan's Alley"](https://www.solvalou.com/arcade/reviews/218/593). *[Computer and Video Games](/source/Computer_and_Video_Games)*. No. 47 (September 1985). 16 August 1985. p. 119. 1. Akagi, Masumi (13 October 2006). [*アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005)*](https://archive.org/details/ArcadeGameList1971-2005/page/n132) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. p. 131. ISBN 978-4990251215. 1. ["Bank Panic (Registration Number PA0000228015)"](https://cocatalog.loc.gov). *[United States Copyright Office](/source/United_States_Copyright_Office)*. Retrieved 6 May 2021. 1. "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)" (in Japanese). *[Game Machine](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B7%E3%83%B3)*. No. 247. [Amusement Press, Inc.](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E9%80%9A%E4%BF%A1%E7%A4%BE). 1 November 1984. p. 31. 1. ["Can You Brave the Bandit Bank?"](https://www.solvalou.com/arcade/reviews/214/583). *[Computer and Video Games](/source/Computer_and_Video_Games)*. No. 43 (May 1985). 16 April 1985. p. 95. 1. Roberts, Mike (June 1985). ["Coin-Op Connection"](https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gamer_Issue_03_1985-06_Argus_Press_GB/page/n17/mode/2up). *[Computer Gamer](/source/Computer_Gamer)*. No. 3. [Argus Press](/source/Argus_Press). pp. 18–9. 1. ["Bang! Bank!"](http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-bang-bank_493.html). *Atari Mania* --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Bank Panic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Panic) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Panic?action=history)). 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