Your Daddy played this game #2: Burger Time
Woot! I can still play Burger Time, thanks to the miracle of Flash animation.
For those of you who don’t know what Burger Time is, here’s a brief background: It’s a 1982 Japanese arcade game created by Data East Corporation for its DECO Cassette System.
In Japan, the game was originally released as, get this, Hamburger. Fortunately, some genius thought about renaming it prior to its release in the United States.
The game is simple as games go. Like the games of yore, Burger Time is set on a, for lack of a better term, “ladderized” maze where your character, Peter Pepper, runs around stepping on ingredients of a good hamburger (bun, patty, and lettuce) to make them fall in sequence down the maze to make four complete burgers.
Of course, the game isn’t complete without the baddies. In the case of Burger Time, the antagonists come in the form of irate foodstuff that didn’t quite make it to the list of ingredients that make good burgers—including fried eggs and hotdogs.
Peter has a weapon to stop the baddies in their tracks—a trusty pepper sprinkler. Yep, one dash of this spice and the walking egg gets paralyzed.
Oh, yeah. Before I go off to spray pepper on the non-existent faces of Mr. Egg, Mr. Hotdog and Mr. Pickle, let me leave the link to that Flash site I was talking about.
Oh, and another thing. Someone (or rather a company) still owns the intellectual rights to our friend Peter Pepper and his world. Many thanks to G-mode Co. Ltd. for giving this generation and future generations the chance to play Burger Time.
