The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril

The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril
Developer:	Wanderlust Interactive
Publisher:	BMG Interactive, Simon & Schuster Inc.
Distributor:	MGM/UA Family Entertainment, MGM Interactive
Plataform:	Windows
Released Date:	December 31, 1996 (NA)
Genre:	Adventure game, Educational game
Mode:	Single Player

The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril is a 1996 adventure computer game that teaches children about six different countries as the Pink Panther explores them to solve a mystery. The countries Pink visits are: England, Egypt, China, Bhutan, India and Australia. Based on the 1993 Pink Panther TV series, 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 July 20, 1998.

The game has been dubbed into several languages.

Plot

The Pink Panther works as a secret agent for the Inspector, who sends him to Camp Chilly Wa-Wa, a prestigious summer camp for the gifted children of wealthy and influential 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 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, looking for reasons to close down the camp while posing as representatives of the "Better Camping Bureau".

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 their camping experience 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, 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 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 so he can open a "Dogburger" fast food restaurant in its place. The Dogfather then reveals to Pink that he replaced the children and Von Schmarty with robots programmed to hate the camp unconditionally and wants to enslave the real children as restaurant workers. 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 lake, freeing the real children and Von Schmarty. With the camp restored, Pink quits working for the Inspector after being told his next mission is an undercover cafeteria worker.

Voices

• Chelsea Altman - Chione, Pigeon
• Barry Carrollo - The Inspector, Von Schmarty, The Dogfather, Nkuku, Reed Weaver, Rug Vendor, Patron in Cairo, Fox, Sir Baldly, Magazine Vendor, Big Nose
• Michael DeBienville - Snake Charmer, Tea Guy, Spice Guy, Fruit Vendor
• Jared Faber - Mourning Boy, Little boy in Pub, Frilled Lizard, Koala bear, Fadil, Ananda, Joey, Frank the bird
• Lewis Faber - Homesick Clam
• Jonathan Fedinatz - Pugg
• Michael Foran - Young Man with incense
• Philip Galinsky - Coffee Vendor, Aboriginal man
• Mike Gaylord - Clothing Vendor, Hurdy Gurdy Man
• Tracy Gilbert - Snake, Smiling Woman
• Valerie Gilbert - Indian mother in village, Flower Vendor, Woman dipping sari, Jain, Aboriginal woman
• Andrew Hurley - Stable Boy, Little Boy in Parliament Sq., Rugby star #2, Priest at Durga's temple, Yaks 1 & 2
• Emily Kapnek - Stewardess
• Robert Linn - Wangley
• John Lipow - Brass Vendor, Patron in coffee house
• Mari Minges - Australia Info Woman
• Michele O. Medlin - Brawling Camper #1, Chamunda, Calligraphy Boy, Little girls in village
• Gavin Parker - Rugby star #1, Father in Parliament sq., Sir Manly, MP
• James Petropoulos - Helicopter Pilot, Kebab Vendor
• Paul Reisch - King of Bhutan
• Joe Shane - Cow, Potter, Aardvark
• Cheryl Sims - Cook in Bhutan
• Neil Stewart - Jackson
• Michael Tremain - Pink Panther, Kumoken, Young Li, Nigel, Fishing Guys, Great wall of China, Purple Gallinule, Louie, Captain, Paranoid Archer, Birds, Father in China

Singers

• Lisa DeSimone
• John Montagna
• Jason Paige
• C.E. Smith

Background Vocals

• Evan Faber
• Lisa Gentile
• Shawana Kemp
• Tayla

Additional Voices

• John Fedinatz
• John O'Cray

Video

Pink Panther: Passport to Peril (1995) [WINDOWS]

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Screenshot Gallery

The Inspector briefing Pink on his mission.

Mouth and Pink in the Egyptian desert, near the Pyramids of Giza.

Pink in the Upper Egyptian farming village.

Pink and Von Schmarty finding "Yung-Li" in Indrani's cabin.

Pink in Yung-Li's family home, with a portrait of Mao Zedong on the wall.

Pink in the Chilly Wa-Wa airport.

Pink, Von Schmarty, and the counselor in the Chilly Wa-Wa main hub.

Pink and Von Schmarty in Nigel's cabin.

Pink in the Mucky Duck pub, with Pugg and Louie hiding behind newspapers.

Pink in Sir Manly's country house, with portraits of Queen Elizabeth II and the Archbishop of Canterbury on the wall.

Pink in downtown Cairo.

Mouth on the banks of the Nile.

Pink setting up a trap for Pugg and Louie.

Pink and Von Schmarty on Day 2 of Chilly Wa-Wa.

Pink on the plane to Beijing.

Pink in the Chinese rice paddy village.

Pink in the Bhutanese village.

Pink in Bombay.

Pink in an Indian village.

Pink attempting to comfort a boy with a shaved head in Varanasi.

Pink on the plane to Australia.

Pink in the Outback.

Pink in Kumoken's Aborigine village.

Pink confronting the Dogfather in the counselor's cabin.

Pugg, Louie, and the counselor abducting Nigel.

One of the unnamed boys holding a flashlight.

Pink's final conversation with the Inspector.

PINK PANTHER VIDEO GAMES
Pink Panther Video Games Pink Panther (1988) ◉ Pink Goes to Hollywood (1993) ◉ Passport to Peril (1996) ◉ Hokus Pokus Pink (1998) ◉ Pinkadelic Pursuit (2002)