Games Computing


Pooyan

Author: Sue Bartlett
Publisher: Konami
Machine: Atari 2600

 
Published in Games Computing #15

Pooyan (Konami)

In this game you are Mama Pig protecting her little piglets - Pooyans - from a fierce pack of wolves.

The first task Mama has to cope with to save her Pooyans is that of bursting the wolves' balloons with arrows as they come floating down into the valley. She can also make the wolves fall by throwing the bait that appears at the top of the valley. When the wolves try to grab the bait, they let got of their balloons and so fall down into the valley.

If the wolves float down to the bottom of the valley, they will climb some steps and attack Mother Pig from behind. The wolves defend themselves with shields and attack by throwing stones.

Pooyan

In the second scene wolves float up from the bottom of Wolf Valley with their balloons and Mama tries to stop them using arrows and bait. When six wolves reach the top, they can start dropping large rocks on Mother Pig! To prevent them doing this you must destroy 'boss wolf'.

Points are awarded if Mother Pig hits a balloon, wolf or stone with an arrow or the bait.

Although it is fairly difficult to make out the shape of the pigs, the wolves are graphically very good and I like the way they push the rocks in Round 2.

Sue Bartlett

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