Synopsis
While thumbing through travel brochures, planning his next vacation, Porky Pig falls asleep. Instead of drifting away in blissful slumber, Porky's nightmares take him to Dry Gulch Creek Haunted Theme Park. Immersed physically in his own dreams, the famous stuttering cartoon pig must traverse six scary worlds, including the Haunted Woods, Dry Gulch Ghost Town and the lost city of Atlantis. In each world, Porky is confronted by a host of creatures and obstacles that go along with the respective themes, such as ghosts, prisoners, trains, owls, tumbleweeds and fish.
Porky's primary method of attack is hopping on top of whatever gets in his way. Once he picks up a fruit bowl, he can throw fruit at enemies. He spends much of his in this game time walking and jumping, but certain levels require Porky to ride a raft, climb trees, glide through the air, float on underwater bubbles and perform an assortment of other stunts. Weather conditions such as snow, rain and fog will hinder his progress. A special Chaos Mapping System changes the weather each time you play the game.
Each level has a boss at the end. Porky will have to perform special maneuvers not found in the standard gameplay to defeat these villains. For example, when confronted by Yosemite Sam, Porky must deflect his bullets with a frying pan. Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday is for one player and offers three levels of difficulty: easy, normal and hard.
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This game and other platformers of its type would not exist without the creation of Super Mario Bros., which hit the NES in 1985.
Warner Bros. cartoon characters began appearing in Nintendo games in the late 1980s with such titles as The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle (1989) and Road Runner (1989), both for the NES.
Warner Bros.' Porky Pig began appearing alongside Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd in their classic theatrical shorts in the 1930s. Beginning in the late 1950s, he was a featured player on The Bugs Bunny Show. Finally, in 1964, ABC gave the stuttering pig his very own show.
