[1] The player controls the film's character Pee Wee as he attempts to blow up Porky's Bar, by collecting a series of objects hidden in a shower room.

To access the shower room, the player must first try to get Pee Wee across a five-lane highway without getting hit, similar to the game mechanic in Frogger.

If Pee Wee crosses into the woman's line of sight at any time, the film character Ms. Balbricker will appear and chase him.

After all the objects have been dropped into the hole, play moves to a scaffold where Pee Wee tries to reach the roof of the bar while Porky waits for him down below.

In a 1983 review, Dan Persons introduced the Atari 2600 version of Porky's as "tasteless, sexist, and sophomoric",[2] then concluded, "The game is so original and entertaining that I can't help loving it.