The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril is an adventure computer game that teaches players about six countries as the Pink Panther explores them to solve a mystery. The countries Pink visits are: England, Egypt, China, Bhutan, India and Australia.[4][5] Based on the 1990s TV series The Pink Panther, the traditionally non-speaking title character speaks audibly throughout.
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| Developer(s) | Wanderlust Interactive |
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| Composer(s) | Jared Faber |
| Series | The Pink Panther |
| Platform(s) | Windows |
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| Genre(s) | Adventure, educational |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
The Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink is a sequel to Passport to Peril that was released on October 18, 1997.[6]
Plot
editThe Pink Panther works as a secret agent for Inspector Clouseau, who sends him to Camp Chilly Wa-Wa, a prestigious summer camp for the gifted children of wealthy and powerful people at a top-secret location, to investigate and protect the camp from a mysterious threat. Once there, he meets a group of multiethnic youths as well as the counselor (portrayed by the Little Man stock character appearing throughout the Pink Panther franchise). The children include Nigel (England), Chione (Egypt), Yung-Li (China), Ananda (Bhutan), Indrani (India), and Kumoken (Australia). Pink also encounters his scientist friend Helmut Von Schmarty, who shows him his newest inventions, including the Dial-a-Day, which can alter the local weather and time of day.
Soon after Pink arrives, the children start acting strangely and contradictory to their nature, hating their camping experience despite Pink's efforts to reason with and comfort them. Pink finds himself traveling around the world to solve the mystery, followed by the evil Dogfather and his henchmen, Pugg and Louie, all posing as representatives of the "Better Camping Bureau". Armed with a PDA (which stands for "Pink Digital Assistant") that contains information on the indigenous people, languages, clothing, entertainment, art, history, nature, and foods of each pertinent country in the game, Pink fulfills various tasks based on the children's needs and whereabouts.
Pink first arrives in London to retrieve Nigel's Guy Fawkes dummy. After briefly losing and recovering his fur, he searches along the Nile for the missing Chione. Failing to find her, he returns to the steadily decaying Chilly Wa-Wa, then travels to Beijing to figure out the meaning of a phrase Yung-Li keeps repeating and why he is repeating it. Pink's subsequent flight to India is thwarted when Pugg and Louie hijack the airplane, prompting him to escape by parachute to Thimphu. Gaining the favor of Ananda's father, the King of Bhutan, Pink travels by helicopter to Bombay, then by train to Varanasi, where he places flowers in the Ganges to honor Indrani's late grandfather. He returns to the camp again to find the Dial-a-Day tampered with and Von Schmarty acting unusually irritable, then tries flying to Australia but ends up parachuting into the Pacific Ocean when Pugg and Louie seize the plane again. Kumoken's father rescues Pink and ferries him to the Outback, where a crocodile totem representing the boy silently warns him that the children need him back at the camp, now in a hellish state with parts of robotic clones of the children strewn about.
Ultimately, Pink gathers enough evidence to prove that the Dogfather intends to ruin Chilly Wa-Wa's reputation so it will be closed down, allowing him to open a lucrative fast food restaurant in its place. The Dogfather then reveals to Pink that he replaced the children with robots programmed to hate the camp unconditionally and wants to enslave the real children as restaurant workers. The dogs and the counselor, who has been secretly working with them, pursue Pink around the camp, but Pink finds and uses a powered vacuum cleaner to capture all four villains and drain the muddy lake, freeing the real children and Von Schmarty. With the camp restored, Pink quits working for Clouseau after being told his next mission is an undercover cafeteria worker.
References
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- ^ "The Pink Panther Passport to Peril". Giant Bomb. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
- ^ "The Pink Panther Passport to Peril Video Game for PC / Windows". Gamepressure.com. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
- ^ "Pink Panther's Passport to Peril Information". GameFAQs. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
- ^ "The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril for Windows (1996)". MobyGames. Archived from the original on 5 January 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
- ^ "Release Data: The Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink". GameFAQs. Archived from the original on 10 October 2013. Retrieved 8 October 2013.