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The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril

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Passport to Peril
Developer(s)Wanderlust Interactive
Publisher(s)
Composer(s)Jared Faber
SeriesThe Pink Panther
Platform(s)Windows
Release
Genre(s)Adventure, educational
Mode(s)Single-player

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.

The Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink is a sequel to Passport to Peril that was released on October 18, 1997.[6]

Plot

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The Pink Panther works as a secret agent for Inspector Clouseau, who sends him to Camp Chilly Wa-Wa, a prestigious international summer camp for the gifted children of powerful and influential people at a top-secret location, to ensure the campers stay happy in order to prevent global conflict. Once there, he meets a group of multiethnic youths as well as the counselor (portrayed by the Little Man 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. The sinister Dogfather and his henchmen, Pugg and Louie, soon arrive, posing as representatives of the "Better Camping Bureau" to inspect the camp.

The Dogfather spies on Pink using a secret code to access the basement under the counselor's cabin, then sets the Dial-a-Day to nighttime and sneaks into the basement while Pink is asleep. When Pink awakens, the children start acting strangely and contradictory to their nature, hating the camp and wanting to leave despite Pink's efforts to reason with and comfort them. Von Schmarty gives him 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; and Pink travels to the children's home countries to fulfill various tasks based on their needs and whereabouts while Pugg and Louie attempt to thwart him repeatedly.

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 Chione, who has reportedly attempted to return home. He discovers a letter to her parents saying she is actually enjoying the camp and never left. After returning to the steadily decaying Chilly Wa-Wa, he 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 and short-circuiting like a robot. Pink tries flying to Australia but ends up parachuting into the Pacific Ocean when Pugg and Louie seize the plane again. Kumoken's Aboriginie father rescues Pink and ferries him to the Outback, where Kumoken's spirit, appearing as a crocodile, silently warns him that the children need him back at the camp, now in a dystopic 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 by replacing the real children and Von Schmarty with robots programmed to hate the camp so he can open a "Dogburger" fast food restaurant in its place. The dogs and the counselor, who was blackmailed into working with them, pursue Pink around the camp, but Pink uses one of Von Schmarty's powered vacuum cleaners 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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  1. ^ "Annual Report of WANDERLUST INTERACTIVE, INC. for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1997". SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  2. ^ "The Pink Panther Passport to Peril". Giant Bomb. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
  3. ^ "The Pink Panther Passport to Peril Video Game for PC / Windows". Gamepressure.com. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
  4. ^ "Pink Panther's Passport to Peril Information". GameFAQs. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
  5. ^ "The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril for Windows (1996)". MobyGames. Archived from the original on 5 January 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
  6. ^ "Release Data: The Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink". GameFAQs. Archived from the original on 10 October 2013. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
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