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This game was obviously inspired by Poo-Yan, a rather unusual game that made a brief appearance in the arcades and has since appeared on a number of home computers.

Poo-Yan has one of the all-time most bizarre scenarios. Consider this as a plot and you know what I mean. A pig travels up and down the side of the screen in a basket. Armed with a bow and arrow, it fires away at wolves who drop by parachute or balloon. If it hits them, they plunge to their deaths.

In most Poo-Yan games, the wolves are after your piglets. This time they seem to be more interested in you. When they reach the ground they rush towards the side of the screen and climb up to make a meal of you unless you get them first.

Once you've despatched 20 wolves they give you the chance to leave your basket and rush across the screen to rescue a piglet.

The little piggy doesn't seem to be in much danger, but you have to try and save it all the same.

This isn't as easy as it sounds, because high up above you is a large spaceship from which the wolves have been jumping.

As you make your mercy dash the ship drops bombs on you. They fall very fast and dodging them involves some pretty quick reactions.

Once you've shot 20 wolves, rescued your piglet, and returned to your basket, the game proceeds to the next level, which is just the same as the last one, but faster. The action is accompanied by some rather disjointed music.

Paramount Software have already cornered the Poo-Yan market for the C64 with their game Outback. Pigs In Space falls very much into second place.