Gals Panic 3, the Video Game by Kaneko Co., Ltd. [Tokyo, Japan]

Type of the machine : Video Game
Gals Panic 3 © 1995 Kaneko.

Gals Panic 3 is a variant of the classic puzzle game qix where the player works to uncover the highlighted area of the play space to reveal a girl. The player gets to select which girl to uncover before each stage. When a player reveals 80% of a girl the stage ends and the player is shown the entire background image. If the player reveals 100% of the silhouetted image, then he is shown a series of different photos of the current girl before continuing on to the next stage. Between stages there are mini-games where the player can win the chance to see an image of another girl.

Main CPU : 68000 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YMZ280B (@ 14.3182 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 240 x 320 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 16384

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 1

Gals Panic 3 introduced the scroll feature to the series. In the previous two games the image was surrounded by a border, but starting with Gals Panic 3 the image continues beyond the view port. Once a set percentage of the image is revealed the view port will scroll along with the player's cursor. This is a feature that will continue throughout the rest of the series.

Unlike all other games in the series, Gals Panic 3 only features photographed models.

This game was refused classification in Australia on August 9th 1996, after being submitted by the Victorian Police.

1. Gals Panic! (1990)
2. Gals Panic II (1993)
3. Gals Panic II' - Special Edition (1994)
4. Gals Panic 3 (1995)
5. Gals Panic 4 Yuu (1996)
6. Gals Panic SS (1996, Sega Saturn)
7. Gals Panic S - Extra Edition (1997)
8. Gals Panic S2 (1999)
8. Gals Panic SU (1999)
9. Gals Panic S3 (2002)

Director : Masahiro Kawakami
Planner : Terukazu Kanematsu
Main Programmer : Yukihiro Yamazaki
Assistant Programmer : Junichi Ohno, Yuji Noda
Art Director : Masahiro Kawakami
Design : Keisuke Matsuoka, Minoru Narukawa, Yoshiyuki Ozaki
Sound : Tatsuya Watanabe, Kaoru Yasuda, Katsuya Yoneda
Hard : Noboru Kouno, Jun Hasimoto, Tetsuya Yonemura, Masahiro Moriya, Yukio Ishii

Game's rom.