Personal Computer Games


Poo-Yan

Categories: Review: Software
Author: SC
Publisher: CGL
Machine: Sord M5

 
Published in Personal Computer Games #5

Poo-Yan

Poo-Van is a likeable little pig who travels up and down the side of the screen in a basket on the end of a rope. He's armed with a bow and arrows, and he's under attack from a pack of hungry wolves.

The wolves begin by running along the top of a cliff and then jumping off. They float to the ground hanging on to balloons, which Poo-Yan must pop with his arrows. The wolves then tumble to their deaths. While they're floating downwards, they pelt him with rocks. If he doesn't get them, they start to climb up the side of the screen where Poo-Yan is suspended, and will wait there till he passes them. They'll then snap at him, and if they get him he loses one of his three lives.

In later screens the wolves try running along the ground and then float upwards instead. If they reach the top, they then line up behind a boulder which they'll push down on the luckless pig.

To help him in his task, Poo-Yan is able to grab the occasional hunk of meat from the top of the screen and hurl it at the airborne wolves. If he gets his aim right he can bring down as many as five at once.

This is an enjoyable game with reasonable graphics and some catchy tunes. Poo-Yan won't have you on the edge of your seat, but I expect this is one pig who won't do too badly when it goes to the market.

SC

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