Cooking mama! (Stephanie)

Cooking mama!

My show and tell today is on a game that I got super addicted to recently...It's called Cooking Mama for the Nintendo DS. Basically it is a cooking simulation game that is a bunch of mini-games you complete to make recipes. I think it's interesting how so many games are coming out for the DS that aren't traditional video games, like puzzle games, drawing games, and titles like this one. They're definitely trying to reach a broader audience than hardcore gamers, which is cool because they're coming out with games like this one. However, I do find quotes like this slightly offensive:

"Cooking Mama is for the parents, grandparents and girlfriends of the Super Mario crowd, and the game never tries to be anything more than a simple bunch of mini-challenge tasks for the non-gaming population." -IGN.com

It's like they're saying video games are only for kids, specifically boys and immature men. Why would people assume that girls don't like bloody adventure games too?

ALso, this game was so popular that a Cooking Mama will be released for the Nintendo Wii early next year. Yay! It will be more Iron Chef style, where you can play against a second player or by yourself in the same way as the DS game. The Wii controller will be used like the touch screen on the DS so you can simulate actions of mashing, stirring, etc.

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Here is a link to a couple of videos that demonstrate gameplay...
http://media.ds.ign.com/media/794/794729/vids_1.html

Posted by Stephanie Baum on November 8, 2006 1:49 AM | Permalink

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Computer Games Theory and Practice, Fall 2006

Cooking mama!

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