You're at the right place, this is the Game of the Week page. What appears to be the start of a childhood fairy tale is actually a classic arcade game. Pooyan is a 1982 co-production of Konami and Stern Electronics, the fine folks who brought you Amidar . And not unlike Amidar, Pooyan features an unintelligible name and pigs as an integral part of the gameplay. Anyhow, the game opens with a quaint little cinematic in which the scene I spoke of before plays out.
Red wolves rush onto the screen and kidnap a couple of the piglets.
It's hard to tell whether this represents annoyance or unbridled joy. Maybe this was her plan all along. As the game begins, we realize that this must happen fairly often. The pigs have designed an ingenious apparatus with which to combat the wolves, based on the scientific principles of pulleys and Robin Hood movies. Mama sits in a sort of dumbwaiter type of compartment while two pigs pull or slacken the rope to move her up and down while she shoots arrows at the wolves.