PrinceWatercress plays The Pink Panther in Pinkadelic Pursuit - Part 9 of 9

Now for the final boss. All's well that ends well.

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Before facing the final boss, I unlock everything in the art gallery. Only takes 7,800 coins!

Anyway, time to go through the vault door in the attic.

The Attic

To beat the boss, you'll need to get a bomb to the right of where you start and place it on one of the two platforms at the top where the gangster is not on. When the gangster jumps on that platform as he regularly switches positions in the attic, you'll want to press R1 to set off the bomb and hit him with the explosion.

After two hits, the boss will send his goons out, and you'll need to avoid them and their bullets on the way to the top to hit him with even more bomb explosions. You'll need to hit the gangster at the top of the attic six times in order to win the game once and for all, and once you do, you'll open up a treasure chest that contains a ton of pink coins...which then gets taken away from you by the still-alive Uncle Pink. Pink Panther chases after Uncle Pink, and the game ends.

After the credits, you'll get a cheat code: L1, L1, R2, R2, L2, L2, R1, R1, Left Right, Select, Start. If you enter it on the main menu, you'll get the cheat menu, which gives the options of 9,999 coins, all the keys, no enemies and no stalkers chasing after you.

And with that, that's The Pink Panther in Pinkadelic Pursuit complete!

PrinceWatercress plays The Pink Panther in Pinkadelic Pursuit - Part 8 of 9

I hate this level. That is all.

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The Gangster's Lair

This is by far the hardest regular level of the game. You'll need a wine bottle to raise the water levels for a bomb involving a fish tank (I guess), you'll need to take a bag of money to Jack's bar, you'll need to blow up a barricade with a bomb, and you'll need to take the key to the exit. For all the non-bomb objectives, you'll be chased after by gangsters, and the key gangster will have a gun.

There are enemies littering this level, including some in garbage cans and others in windows. The enemies in the garbage cans and the windows cannot be defeated. Thankfully, any bullets that the enemies here shoot will have limited range. 

For the bottle of wine, you'll need to get it at Montana's Bar on ground level. You'll then need to head to the right as you make your way up, and you'll also have to go through a door and a hallway. At the other end of the hallway is the neon sign pointing to Jack's Bar, but if you drop down and to the right, you'll be where you need to take the wine bottle so the gangster with the dynamite plunger can cause an explosion at the bank at ground level.

You'll then need to head into the bank and pick up the money, then get it to Jack's Bar while a gangster chases after you. The pink neon arrows will lead to the bar to an extent, but even then, you have to make quite the trek to get this done, going through a few windows and indoor passsages and even running across the rooftops in order to do it. All the while, you have to remember exactly where you need to go to get to the area above the giant green truck so you can go down and to the right of that to get to the bar.

From here, get in the bar and go up the stairs to get the bomb out of the building, through the general store, through two windows, and then down and to the right to get to the key area.

The trek to the exit is the absolute worst. The exit is actually above the first boarded window just after the start, and when you reach it, you have to leap left to the ladder, jump up the ladder, and then head right to the door. The only problem is that it's just distant enough from the rest of the maze that this level is, and that the platform where the ladder is blends in with the building it's on, that you'd have no idea that path was there in the first place.

At least this level is over. Good riddance.

PrinceWatercress plays The Pink Panther in Pinkadelic Pursuit - Part 7 of 9

We have yet another short video due to an easy boss followed by another skating level.

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The Dinosaur

To beat the dinosaur boss, you'll need to bring the bone from the bottom of the screen to the bomb near the top on the right side of the room. Place the bomb in front of the dinosaur's head first, then place the bone. The dinosaur will then eat both, losing a hit point. Do this three times and you'll win. All you'll need to worry about is the rocks that this boss tosses down. Other than that, this is a very easy boss.

The Construction Site, Part 2

You can now go left through the open window from the second boss and jump up to the attic. There are two more levels before the third and final boss, and this is one of them.

This is the third and last skating level, and this time around, you'll need to hold Down on the D-Pad in order to duck under wrecking balls and other obstacles. The only drawback is that if you hold Down to duck, you'll go faster when you do it. Other times, you'll have to memorize where the swinging wrecking balls will be, and you'll have to jump accordingly. Of the three skating levels, this is the hardest one.

PrinceWatercress plays The Pink Panther in Pinkadelic Pursuit - Part 6 of 9

Things get trickier when we travel to Transylvania.

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Dracula's Castle

You'll need to light some TNT with a candle, use a ticket to get past a tool booth, light another TNT barrel with a candle, bring a pillow to silence an alarm clock, and ultimately get the key and get out of here.

Stay up high at first, then go down at the second chandelier and get the candle. Take it to the right at this lower level, and after the small pits, you'll need to jump up and to the right to get to the TNT barrel and light it the same way you lay a bomb in the earlier stages. The candle will disappear shortly after you take it, so you need to be fast.

This opens up a maze. Go in the door, then the left-most door. Enter the left-most door again, and you'll get the ticket. You can then easily make your way back out. As for the ticket, go back left and then down and enter the door with the ticket icon above it, then head right to get past the toll booth.

Make your way up the tower, then head left. You'll eventually find a monster near a bed with a pillow. There is a TNT barrel blocking some health and a candle underneath it, and you can bounce off the bed to get the health. You'll also need to take the candle to the right from the bed to blow up a TNT barrel. This way, when you grab the pillow, you can head down and then left, then drop down to the starting area, head to the right while taking the high road, drop down to where the key door is, and enter it and take the pillow to the alarm clock. All that, and the monster near the bed won't mess with you.

You'll need to do this in order to get the key. When you get the key, hide in the portrait, go through the nearby door, go left, head through the next door, then head down and to the left to the exit. Watch out near the exit, as Dracula will be chasing you as you have the key and he will show up right near the beginning and take the key away from you seconds before can make it to the gate. Once you somehow beat Dracula at his own game, you'll be able to get out of here.

PrinceWatercress plays The Pink Panther in Pinkadelic Pursuit - Part 5 of 9

I may not have beaten the best time, but I still got through this one pretty quickly.

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The Stone Age

You'll need to put out a fire, break two walls with egg bombs, get a bone from a dinosaur to a toll bridge, and get out.

Holding Down and Left or Down and Right lets you crawl through the low passageways.

Watch out for fire as you get to the bowl of water. Stay low and follow the signage and get to the bowl, and get to the slope blocked at the top by the campfire to put the fire out. 

When you get the eggs, jump up and enter the doorway to blow up the wall near the start. You'll need to do this again to blow up the wall just up and left from it.

To get the bone, go past where you blew the stone wall at the start and go through it one. One of the caves has a bone, but you'll need to run away from the dinosaur. Go up and to the left, then jump up the mountain and head right to the toll bridge. You'll then be able to get the key. You'll need to circle around. When you see the frozen bridge to the right, take it and follow the pink signs to the exit.

PrinceWatercress plays The Pink Panther in Pinkadelic Pursuit - Part 4 of 9

This video ends up being super short due to the boss battle more or less going my way and because of the short level that I end up playing afterwards. At least I know where to get coins now.

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When you head out of the house from the right, you'll find out that Uncle Pink has left a large, carnivorous plant in the greenhouse. You'll need to beat this thing in order to continue on.

The Greenhouse

To beat the large, carnivorous plant, you'll need to take the bomb, lay it next to one of the three roots with the bulge on it on the ground and blow those roots up. If you blow up all three, you win.

The battle is far from simple, however, as the plant will eat you as soon as it sees you. Use the trees for cover, and if you see the thought bubble with the pink question mark in it, you'll need to hide quickly, or else you're going to get eaten and you'll have to start this whole boss battle over. For best results, make your moves when the plant is not looking in your general direction. Once you destroy all three of the roots on the ground, you'll get another key as well as a heart container that increases your maximum health by one heart.

From here, you can enter the greenhouse, jump on the tree stump, jump on the roof and walk across the awning near the greenhouse and enter the second floor. Here, we'll play another short level.

The Ice Rink

Once again, you're in another skating level. Be ready to jump over policemen, cars and holes in the street. When you're on the power lines, jump over the sparks so you don't get shocked. When you're being chased by the snowball, jump over the mailboxes. It won't be long until you get to the key at the end.

This is the best place in the game to get coins to unlock the art in the art gallery, and this is especially true if you beat your best time multiple times, which I eventually end up doing.

PrinceWatercress plays The Pink Panther in Pinkadelic Pursuit - Part 3 of 9

One more level before we have to face a boss...and it's an obligatory Egyptian level. Nice.

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There's nothing to do on ground level, so let's head to the basement and play the Egyptian level, shall we?

Egypt

You'll need the candelabra to get the bomb and blow up a barrier, then you'll need to get a diamond to open a door and bomb another barrier before getting out of here.

The candelabra is all the way to the right on ground level. You'll need to take it to the crate of dynamite to the right of where you start to get the bomb. Take the bomb to the right while staying as high up in the level as you can go, and you'll get to the barrier, lay it down and blow it up.

This will get you into the pyramid, but you'll still need the diamond. That will be up and right of the start as you're heading towards the candelabra. Take the diamond and get into the pyramid, but watch out for the jackal who walks like an Egyptian even as he chases after you. Once you're in the pyramid, keep dropping down and to the right to get to the door that requires the diamond. There are doors you can enter with Triangle, but you don't need them. You may have to hide near the end, though.

At the other end is the barrier. You'll find the bomb in the pyramid if you look for the signs pointing to it. Once you get it, drop on down, get to the right and blow up the barrier. Get the key, and when you get to the pyramid, be ready to hide, as the jackal will suddenly show up from the left when you reach the wall you need to hide in near the exit. from here, head up and left to exit the pyramid, then drop all the way down to ground level, head left and get to the door.

The mummies take three hits to defeat.

PrinceWatercress plays The Pink Panther in Pinkadelic Pursuit - Part 2 of 9

Getting through these levels can be done pretty quickly if you know how.

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The Railway Line

The Railway Line is the first of three auto-scrolling levels where Pink is on skates and you'll have to jump over pits and obstacles to survive. If you bump into anything, you're taking damage, and if you lose all your health, it's back to the beginning for you, as there are no checkpoints.

X lets you jump, while holding Down lets you crouch. Crouching makes you go faster, however, and you won't really need it until the third and last skating level, but it can help you beat the best time and get extra coins multiple times if you know what you're doing.

If you hear a guy yelling, a guy carrying lumber will be coming right at you. Jump over him. Also, jump over the rock bending the power lines down. And watch out for the train!

When you reach the end, you'll get the key.

After getting one key, you'll unlock the door leading to the basement, which is right outside and leads to two more levels. We'll play one of them right now.

The Construction Site, Part 1

You'll be blowing up a stack of lumber that is in the way, giving a burger to a dog, getting a roll of toilet paper to an outhouse, and then getting the key to the exit. After the bomb part, you'll be chased for the remainder of the level objectives.

The metal ducts will take you from one end to the other. Wrecking balls will hurt you. Mattresses act as springboards. Barbed wire and buzzsaws will hurt.

You'll need to get to the sandy floor below to get the bomb. Once you get it, you'll need to take it up and around and to the right to get rid of the lumber barrier and clear the path.

After that, you'll need to get the burger, which is just above where you found the bomb. You'll need to get past where the barrier was, then keep going right to get to the dog and give the dog the burger. A construction worker will chase after you, so you'll need to be fast.

You'll then run through the locker room before finding the general store, where you'll need to get the toilet paper and avoid the store worker catching up with you as you take the toilet paper upwards to where the outhouse is. Avoid the slippery oil, and if you need to, use the piles of dirt and the pink paint on the walls to hide from the guy.

Past the outhouse is the climb leading to the exit door. The guy in the outhouse will leave the key when you get the toilet paper to him, but if you grab the key, he'll chase after you! (And here we are thinking he was helping us.) You'll need to head further to the right when you get the key, then make your way to the exit door at the top. There are a few places where you can hide if you really need them.

PrinceWatercress plays The Pink Panther in Pinkadelic Pursuit - Part 1 of 9

Not often you see The Pink Panther in his own video game.

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At the beginning of the game, we find out that The Pink Panther's Uncle Pink has passed away and that he has inherited his mansion as well as his treasure. In order to get the treasure, though, you'll have to go through the various rooms of the mansion that contains Uncle Pink's various exploits during his life and pick up the keys in each of them.

Left and Right on the D-Pad let you move left and right, while X lets you jump. If you need to read a sign again, stand in front of it and press L1.

To the left of where you start is the gallery. To unlock the picture, you'll have to get the various pink coins that are scattered through the game's levels. You'll need a total of 7,800 coins to fully unlock the art gallery.

When you approach a door, you'll be told how many keys you need to open it as well as the best time for each level. You start out with one key, and you'll get more as you progress through the game. As for the best time, there's no real reason to beat that time (and then beat the time that you made over and over again) except to get 200 coins for unlocking stuff in the art gallery.

At the start, you can only enter the ground floor of the house and take on either the S.S. Luxitania or the skating level next to it. We're entering the S.S. Luxitania.

S.S. Luxitania

The loading screens are pretty neat, because when you're halfway through them, you'll get a brief pictorial description of all the things you have to do to complete the level.

You'll start out in the cargo hold. You'll need to jump your way out. Double-tapping and holding X will allow you to slowly glide downward.

Square will let you attack enemies. You can also attack enemies that run back and forth by jumping on them. Enemies usually take two hits to defeat, 

If you approach a hiding spot, the game will tell you to press Triangle at that location. If you do, you'll hide there. Hold the Triangle button to keep hiding.

The first thing you need to do is find the bananas and give them to the monkey blocking your path. When you find then, grab them with the Circle button, then get to the monkey. The bananas will be above the exit from the cargo hold. Thankfully, there are signs throughout the level that will give you a general direction as to where to go to reach which item or obstacle. Once you get the bananas, keep going to the right and take the stairs every time you see them. You'll find the monkey. Move towards the monkey with the bananas in your hand to get the monkey out of you way.

Past the monkey is a bomb. When you pick the bomb up, a timer starts. If it blows up in your hand, it will kill you and you'll have to try again. Thankfully, you have infinite lives in this game. Go back to the left and keep going down the stairs, and you can place the bomb near the crate with the Circle button. If you need it to blow up before the timer expires, press R1.

From here, feel free to explore the area for coins and power-ups. The hearts will replenish one heart from your health. You start out with four hearts, but you can lose half a heart, which means you actually have eight hit points to work with. Once again, if you lose all your health, you'll die and get sent back a bit, but you do have infinite lives.

Past the bomb, up and to the left, is the turkey. When you grab the turkey, however, the waitperson will chase after you. If he catches up to you, he will take the turkey and you'll have to get to him and take it back with Circle. He will return it to where you found it if you don't. You'll need to take the turkey back down to the lowest level of the ship, then take it to the right to the other waitperson blocking the door. If you need to, hold Triangle to hide between the life preservers until the guy chasing you goes off-screen.

Once you deliver the turkey, use Triangle to enter the doors. One of them will take you to the key, and you'll need to take the key and get it to the exit. Before you do that, keep going right, grab the bomb, then go back left and go up the stairs to get rid of the crate in your path. You can then get the key, go to the right, and make your way up to the pink door that serves as the exit. If you need to, you can use the lounge chair to bounce up to a higher area. Also, watch out for wet floors, as they are slippery. When you make it to the pink door with the key, you'll complete the level, get another key, get a chance to save your game and unlock more of the game.