Pig-based gaming was not a significant genre of 1980's arcade games, but it did bring us some sublime gems, from the hallucinogenic maze action of Amidar(which featured evil porkers) to the Konami classic Pooyan, and finally, today's game, Pig Newton. Like many early sega games, such as "Congo Bongo", or "Zaxxon", Pig Newton had pretty graphics for the time, looking like a classic '30s disney short, at least in the wolf and pig characters. After pressing start to bypass the titular hero wearing a straw hat and a bushel of eggs, the game begins. As wolves try to chop down an apple tree, you have to rush and steal eggs from various nests while dropping apples on the wolves below. It's kind of clunky, but the uniqueness of it saves it. As well as the gorgeous graphics, especially for the time, but I have nothing to say about the sound design because the sound is not working right now.
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