Panic Restaurant (NES)

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Panic Restaurant
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Platform: NES
Year: 1992
Developer: EIM Ltd.
Buy: Amazon

Panic Restaurant, known in Japan as Wanpaku Kokkun no Gourmet World (わんぱくコックンのグルメワールド), is a 1992 platform game developed by EIM and published by Taito for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Panic Restaurant stars a chef named Cookie who must navigate through his own restaurant, which has been cursed by a rival chef named Ohdove. Cookie has to battle evil food monsters with kitchen utensil weapons in six levels before taking on Ohdove in a final battle.

This game was mixed-to-positive reception by critics, because it was done by only 10 people at EIM, most notably game developer Kenji Edo, who went on to found the game company WARP.

Screenshots

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The title screen.


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Music

Panic Restaurant has 19 songs, both of these were composed by Hirohiko Takayama and Kenji Eno, two of the sound designers at EIM, and Takaya Nakamura was the guy who created the sound effects, another sound designer that worked at EIM.

The songs had a cute atmosphere, written by the two composers who worked at EIM, but there a total of 19 songs, seventeen of them were used in the game, and two of them were short fanfares.

To write the music, the two EIM sound designers wrote the music in hexadecimal on MS-DOS, and then converted to a sound driver by Michiya Hirasawa.


Recording

# Title ComposerArranger Length Listen Download
101 Intro: Part 1 Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:56
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102 Stage 1: Appetizer Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 1:30
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103 Stage 2: Soup Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 1:12
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104 Stage 3: Salad Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 1:08
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105 Stage 4: Fish Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 1:01
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106 Stage 5: Meat Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 1:16
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107 Stage 6: Dessert Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 1:39
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108 Stage Clear Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:38
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109 Mini-Game Instructions Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:06
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110 Mini-Game Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:45
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111 Invincibility Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:09
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112 Life Lost Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:05
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113 Game Over Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:06
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114 Boss Battle Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 2:46
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115 Final Boss: Ohdove Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 1:38
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116 Final Boss Clear Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:15
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117 The End Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 1:58
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118 One Up Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:01
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119 Lose Slot Machine Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:01
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# Title ComposerArranger Length Listen Download
201 Intro: Part 1 Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:52
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202 Stage 1: Appetizer Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 1:18
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203 Stage 2: Soup Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 1:03
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204 Stage 3: Salad Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:53
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205 Stage 4: Fish Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:56
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206 Stage 5: Meat Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 1:07
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207 Stage 6: Dessert Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 1:24
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208 Stage Clear Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:37
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209 Mini-Game Instructions Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:04
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210 Mini-Game Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:30
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211 Invincibility Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:07
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212 Life Lost Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:04
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213 Game Over Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:05
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214 Boss Battle Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 2:25
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215 Final Boss: Ohdove Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 1:20
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216 Final Boss Clear Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:15
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217 The End Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 1:36
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218 One Up Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:01
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219 Lose Slot Machine Hirohiko Takayama, Kenji EnoHirohiko Takayama, Kenji Eno 0:01
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Credits

  • Rippers: MrNorbert1994
  • Recorder: Duc4Wikmedia
  • Game Credits:
    • きょくを さっきょくしたひと (Who Composed the Music): Hirohiko Takayama credited as たかやま ひろひこ
    • きょくを さっきょくしたひと (Who Composed the Music): Kenji Eno credited as いいの けんじ
    • こうかおんを つくったひと (Person Who Made the Sound Effects): Takaya Nakamura credited as なかむら たかや
    • Uncredited Sound Driver: Michiya Hirasawa

(Source: 1, 2, 3)

The credits can be seen in the Japanese version. In the US version, it simply ends at the The End screen, leaving it unused. To see the credits, setting the hex 00:0019 to 0x0D will send you directly to the credits.

Game Rip

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Audio Devices

The game uses the 2A03 of the NES. The game uses Michiya Hirasawa's sound driver.

Releases

  Japan.svg   Japan
Wanpaku Kokkun no Gourmet World - FC.jpg
Title: わんぱくコックンのグルメワールド (Chef Cookie in Gourmet World)
Platform: Famicom
Released: 1992-04-24
Publisher: Taito Corporation
  USA.svg   USA
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Title: Panic Restaurant
Platform: NES
Released: 1992-10-??
Publisher: Taito America Corp.
  EU.svg   EU
Panic Restaurant - NES - EU.jpg
Title: Panic Restaurant
Platform: NES
Released: 1994-05-26
Publisher: Taito Corporation

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