Home Computing Weekly


Pigs In Space

Author: D.C.
Publisher: ACE
Machine: Commodore 64

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #62

Clearly programmer and insert writer are unacquainted. It's wolves in space, the bigs being land-based and your pig lazer (a pun on lazy pigs or poor spelling?) is a bow and arrow.

Mummy pig is hoisted up and down in a basket, while wolves drop by balloon or heli-pack from a conveyor belt through the middle of a cloud. Or perhaps it's a spaceship. They are hurling at Mummy what the insert calls space dust but looks like thumping great rocks to me. Once hit, Mummy's dead.

After she has killed 20 wolves, she's supposed to come down, avoid atomic bombardment, and rescue a piglet hiding in trees. Mummy really could do with more modern equipment because her arrows are slow. Landing wolves can be shot on the ground, but if missed, rise underneath the basket. meaning certain death.

Keyboard or joystick. No display of wolves hit so I don't know if I ever came near to 20 before my lives ran out on Level 1 and I could not work up sufficient interest to keep trying. No title screen, poor use of sound, chunky graphics and loading difficulties.

D.C.

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