Cooking Game Wins Top Game Honors at CESI just love it when two worlds collide here at Men in Aprons. It all started with Nintendo offering a wildly popular cooking game for its handheld game system called Cooking Mama. And strangely, this was one of the top selling games for the DS last year. Take that, Zelda. And now with the release of Nintendo's revolutionary Wii system, the cooking world once again collides with video games. The Wii system features a wireless controller senses the users slightest movements and makes things happen in the games. Swing the controller like a tennis racket in the Sports package, or roll a bowling ball down the lanes. It reacts to what you do with your body. Cooking Mama is a cooking game previously released for the DS, but has been created for the Wii. This game has not even been released to the public, but it won top honors at the 2007 CES this past week. Apart from Nintendo's own games, it's tough to find games for Wii that make innovative use of the motion controls. That's why we're so pumped to start making virtual cuisine in Majesco's Cooking Mama: Cook-Off. Slice the tomatoes by carefully moving the controller in an up-and-down motion, then grind the hamburger by cranking the Wiimote like a meat grinder's handle. A two-player mode is the icing on the cake. Or the ketchup, to extend the metaphor.
Awesome. Things like this bring joy to my face. I'm glad to see people getting fun out of cooking (virtual as it may be), rather than killing aliens or smacking hoes. |