Butasan

Butasan (ぶたさん) (also known as Mr. Pig and Pig and Bombers) is a 1987 arcade game developed by NMK and Jaleco.

Butasan
In-game screenshot
Developer(s)NMK
Jaleco
Publisher(s)Jaleco
Platform(s)Arcade, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sharp X68000, PS4
Release
Genre(s)Action

Summary

The player controls a pig and the aim of the game is to blow up other pigs by throwing bombs at them. The bombs are randomly spawned across the map and can be picked up and thrown at the other pigs. The bombs are given a number between 5 and 30; when the bomb is thrown it takes that number of seconds to explode. Bombs which directly hit pigs explode on contact. Various power ups are available throughout the game such as gas that makes all other characters fall asleep.

A bonus sub-game involves random pigs popping out of holes, and the player must knock them back down the hole with their own pig, in a similar mode of gameplay to Whack-a-mole.

The game was released on various home computer systems such as ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, MSX and Amstrad CPC by U.S. Gold as Psycho Pigs U.X.B.[6]

There were several criticisms of sexism when an advert of the game showing a semi-naked model holding the video game case was published in some specialized magazines.[7][8][9]

Ports

The game was released on the Nintendo Switch in the Nintendo eShop on 16 May 2019 by Hamster Corporation as part of their Arcade Archives series[10] and also on the PlayStation 4 on 14 July 2015 as part of the same series.[11]

References
  1. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=Crash/Issue53/Pages/Crash5300096.jpg
  2. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=SinclairUser/Issue078/Pages/SinclairUser07800046.jpg
  3. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=YourSinclair/Issue34/Pages/YourSinclair3400043.jpg
  4. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=ACE/Issue12/Pages/ACE1200068.jpg
  5. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=TheGamesMachine/Issue11/Pages/TheGamesMachine1100052.jpg
  6. Psycho Pigs U.X.B. review Archived 2009-03-15 at the Wayback Machine at ysrnry.co.uk
  7. "Video Game Print Ads • "Psycho Pigs U.X.B. / Butasan" [Home Computer]..." Video Game Print Ads. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  8. "Image of the polemical advert".
  9. "Zzap Rrap - Psycho Pigs UXB Advert". www.zzap64.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  10. Lane, Gavin (2020-03-13). "Guide: Every Arcade Archives Game On Nintendo Switch, Plus Our Top Picks". Nintendo Life. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  11. "Arcade Archives | HAMSTER Corporation". www.hamster.co.jp. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
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