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‘Kitchen Nightmares’: The Game
Gordon Ramsay is busy. And when you have 53,000 things going on, this is bound to be your life: lots of crazy highs mixed in with lowly lows.
As his cooks scatter, he forges ahead on strange ventures with even stranger people. As he looks aghast trying to breathe life into the kitchen of yet another crappy Long Island eatery, Fox re-ups him.
Just out: a new Kitchen Nightmares video game. From the product description:
Hell’s Kitchen is a TV phenomenon featuring world-renowned chef Gordon Ramsay putting aspiring chefs through rigorous culinary tests. The game recreates the show’s pressure-cooker atmosphere as players complete a series of kitchen and dining room challenges to find out if they have what it takes to be a “Five-Star” chef. Fulfilling an order requires three important phases – preparation, cooking and service, all of which players must master to progress. Prepare ingredients, cook them to the correct quality and get food out of the kitchen on time. Each complete meal is scored by Chef Gordon Ramsay to make the kitchen boot camp experience come alive.
More here at the game’s official website. The game, which apparently features trademark Ramsay tirades, is rated T for Teen in the States but earns a mere PG in Australia, where one writer wonders WTF is up with that?
The game markets at about $40. Buy for Wii and other formats here.
1983 ‘Burger Time’ Commercial
Major League Eating Game Debuts Today
Major League Eating: The Game launches today for WiiWare–the new downloadable Wii service. To celebrate, from 12-3p this afternoon the Nintendo World Store in Manhattan is holding simultaneous real and virtual watermelon-eating competitions.
Tim “Eater X” Janus, the newly crowned Sushi eating champion of the world, a man who hides his inner torment behind a mask, will compete against Crazy Legs Conti. Conti, often described as the “Evil Knievel of the Alimentary Canal,” is known for eating his way out of a 96-cubic foot sarcophagus of popcorn at the debut of his own movie, Zen and The Art of Competitive Eating.
This bare knuckled, drag out, in-you-face (literally) six minute exercise in extreme watermelon consumption is near certain to yield a new world record. It will also be the first watermelon eating contest to feature both real and virtual watermelons.
As the screen capture indicates, virtual gamers can indeed lose their lunch.
Game site here. Joystiq has gamer analysis here. Serious Eats has the game trailer here.
Major League Eating (the sport, not the game) site here.
Chuck E. Cheese = UFC
Proving yet again the maxim that “Chuck E. Cheese’s is a threat to the health, safety and welfare of the community…”
Moms brawl at Chuck E. Cheese party
A child’s birthday party at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant is cut short when a fight breaks out between two mothers.
Natick police said the mom of the 9-year-old birthday boy apparently became enraged because the other woman’s son was “hogging” an arcade game.
Sgt. Paul Thompson said 38-year-old Catherine Aliaga and 33-year-old Tarsha Williams, both of Boston, would be summoned into court to answer charges of simple assault and battery stemming from the scuffle.
Thompson told the MetroWest Daily News that police received a number of 911 calls about the fight Saturday night.
He said what started as a birthday celebration turned into a “birthday melee.”
From the Boston Herald. MetroWest Daily News actually has lots more detail than does the Herald, but goes with the less descriptive headline Fight breaks out during party at Chuck E. Cheese.
I went to a birthday party on Sunday with my girlfriend — it was her niece’s seventh — and can confirm we witnessed no face slapping or hair pulling inside the Build a Bear.
‘Major League Eating: The Game’
In what gaming and food fans like me will no doubt consider the best news in both since the debut of Burgertime in, um, 1982, Mastiff games is planning to release a competitive-eating game on May 12. Just in time for me to finish finals and spend my entire summer playing! From the punny press release:
…Major League Eating: The Game, will makes its debut as an exclusive on WiiWare™, Nintendo’s new downloadable game service for the Wii™ console, which launches May 12 in North America. The game will make extensive use of the Wii Remote™ to simulate the fast and furious action of a professional eating competition.
“Watching Major League Eating is like watching poetry in motion” says Bill Swartz, Head Woof at Mastiff. “Professional gurgitators have the grace of ballerinas yet the brute strength, mental focus, and intestinal fortitude to push their bodies and minds as hard as athletes in any other extreme endurance sport. Victory is sweet and defeat can be well, really, really messy. It’s an experience we’re proud to help bring into the home.”
The game features the world’s greatest gurgitory athletes competing across a variety of foods and venues. Built much like a classic fighting game and deeper than a Chicago style deep-dish pizza, MLE: The Game requires players to master a smorgasbord of offensive and defensive weapons including bites, burps, belches, mustard gas and jalapeño flames while cramming and chewing food at a world-class pace. It’s not for the faint of heart, the slow of reflex, or those with an overly strong aversion to a Technicolor reversal of fortune.
Ah, yes. The “reversal of fortune”, also known as booting or — in keeping with the “Major League” theme — hurling.
Screen capture via Slashfood, which has more on the game.
Play Burgertime online here. And isn’t it about time you picked up a Wii?
