Pork Leg Pig

Pork Leg Pig 64 (or just Pork Leg Pig) is a 3D Collectathon Platformer released by Valley Sun Games in 1999.

Development History
Pork Leg Pig would begin development in 1996 when Valley Sun Games got their Nintendo 64 Development Kit so as sort of a "test character" one of the programmers Ted Hull created a character he named Pork Leg who was a pirate, According to a later interview he got the character because he used to sail a lot as a kid so that influenced the design, Anyways it turned out the Development Team really liked the character and would usually reference it a lot at work, So when Super Mario 64 released Valley Sun Management requested to begin development on a similar game so while brainstorming ideas they decided to use Pork Leg as the main character so after finalizing everything Pork Leg Pig under codename Project Pork Pig began development in Mid 1997.

Plot
The Plot for Pork Leg Pig 64 follows Pork Leg a sailor who needs to stop a Pirate named Captain Coyote who wants to take over the world so Pork Leg must stop him.

Release & Reception
Pork Leg Pig released on December 15th 1999 which was only 11 Months after their last game Warner Bros Cartoon Smackdown which lead to the joke that Pork Leg Pig was made in 11 Months, The Game released to Amazing Reviews with magazines like EGM writing that "Pork Leg Pig is an amazing 3D Game and is overall one of the best new games for the Nintendo 64." The game would sell 11.2 Million Copies Worldwide.

Legacy
Pork Leg Pig 64 is looked back on as an amazing 3D Platformer for the Nintendo 64 and people reminiscing over the game and its greatest elements and is usually ranked high when it comes to 3D Platformers.