The year of the pig

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The year of the pig

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According to the chinese calendar, the year of the pig has started!

So I'm thinking of games involving pigs (the main topic, any character, ...) and only two games come to my mind:

Oink!

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And Granja, rewieved in a past Microhobby thread:

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Any others?

PS: Happy Year of the Pig!!!
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Psycho Pigs U.X.B. is really good.
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Psycho Pigs U.X.B. (a conversion of Butasan - Pig's & Bomber's coin-op):

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Yes, I like Psycho Pigs UXB too.

On the other hand, Piggy is an absolute waste of code. The main sprite doesn't even look like a pig at all!

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It’s tenuous I know, but, pigs tend to be chubby :-)

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=954
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Alessandro wrote: Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:40 am
The main sprite doesn't even look like a pig at all!

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Maybe a pig standing on two legs? ;)
stupidget wrote: Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:47 am It’s tenuous I know, but, pigs tend to be chubby :-)
Nice try! :D
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Remember: Butcher's does count! (now I'm thinking of Everyone's a Wally, by the way)
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On the other hand, Piggy is an absolute waste of code.
There is another game called Piggy, coming from Czech Republic. Nice looking but very short:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=14542
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In Soldier of Fortune, they main hero is supposed to be some orc, I guess but he has quite a piggy look:
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And going a bit off topic as a curiosity I'd like to show you Polish game Knoorkie made for C64 which is a Dizzy clone featuring a little pig:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/knoorkie
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The insteresing thing about it is that it uses graphic mode "compatible" with ZX Spectrum (except the main sprite) so theoretically porting the graphics to Speccy would be a straightforward job.
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Alessandro wrote: Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:40 am Yes, I like Psycho Pigs UXB too.

On the other hand, Piggy is an absolute waste of code. The main sprite doesn't even look like a pig at all!

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Could be PIGGY the boy from Lord of the Flies?
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This is the Piggy I remember, from the Spectrum Computing tape-magazine:

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A mix of Mr. Do and Boulderdash. It looks simple but it's quite a challenge, since you can't get the treasure without opening up gaping huge pathways for the monsters.
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Piggy Punks

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and my re-imagination from childhood:

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The Nightmare Room from JSW.
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I always thought that was some sort of Griffin. I guess I just didn't get the Flying Pig or Pink Floyd reference at the time - not that theirs actually had wings anyway.
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The best is probably

Wrath of the Killer Pigs

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How the very devil did we forget Higgledy Piggledy?!

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It's a shame it was a commercial release only, because it's up there with the best—yet played by a few.

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