New videogames lure players into the kitchen
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A new crop of video games is encouraging fans to ignore their parents’ advice and play with their food. Fans slice, dice and feel the heat of the kitchen with a new crop of foodie games that includes Atari’s “What’s Cooking? With Jamie Oliver,” Majesco’s “Cooking Mama World Kitchen,” Ubisoft’s “Hell’s Kitchen: The Video Game” and Nintendo’s “Personal Trainer: Cooking.”
The title that launched the North American food game craze was “Cooking Mama,” a Japanese import that hit our shores in 2006. It uses the touchscreen and stylus on the DS to let users “cook” everything from pepperoni pizza to cabbage meat rolls. Players also can blow into the DS microphone to “cool off” hot dishes.
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