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in the floor and climb out of the room through the top. If Ms. Balbricker "latches onto" him, or if Pee Wee steps into the hole in the floor, he falls back into the swamp and must try again. However, this time he is only allowed to vault onto the leftmost platform while Porky's brother, the local sheriff, is standing on the right platform and will remain there for each subsequent time Pee Wee falls.
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The shower room has a series of ladders for Pee Wee to climb to retrieve the objects while a woman showers. If Pee Wee crosses into the woman's line of sight at any time, the film character Ms. Balbricker will appear and chase him. Pee Wee must move the object from atop the shower down through a hole
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The process repeats until he has found enough objects. For each object he retrieves, one lane of the highway is cleared and he cannot be harmed by anything in it. After all the objects have been dropped into the hole, play moves to a scaffold where Pee Wee tries to reach the roof of the bar while
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as "tasteless, sexist, and sophomoric", then concluded, "The game is so original and entertaining that I can't help loving it. If it is as popular as the movie upon which it was based, and it should be, then Fox has a winner on its hands."
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Porky waits for him down below. The scaffold must be climbed in a specific manner and resets every time Pee Wee makes a mistake. If he misses a step, Pee Wee falls onto the ground where Porky catches him and tosses him back into the swamp.
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To win, Pee Wee must find the correct path up the scaffold and avoid Porky. If he does, he is taken to an area with a plunger. Pee Wee must jump on the plunger, which creates an explosion and Porky's sinks into the swamp.
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To access the shower room, the player must first try to get Pee Wee across a five-lane highway without getting hit, similar to the game mechanic in
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The player controls the film's character Pee Wee as he attempts to blow up Porky's Bar, by collecting a series of objects hidden in a shower room.
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game. ... But it sure is fun to look back at which games actually worked and which games were
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In a 1983 review, Dan Persons introduced the Atari 2600 version of
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derided the game in 2015, saying "Good god, there was even a
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lead section
summarize
provide an accessible overview

Publisher(s)
20th Century Fox
Platform(s)
Atari 2600
Atari 8-bit
Genre(s)
Action
Single-player
action game
Atari 2600
20th Century Fox
Porky's
Atari 8-bit computers

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"Porky's"


"Softspot: Porky's"
"'E.T.,' 'Krull,' 'Gremlins,' and 'Porky's': When Every Movie Was an Atari Game"
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Porky's
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