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[Matlock]

Searched for Cooking Mama and Taito, didn't get anything. If it's been posted, please post a link to whichever thread it's also in so I can read it.

The DS has hardcore game audiences, girl audiences and even older audiences. Now Taito is attempting to introduce another audience to the platform: moms! Featured in the latest issue of Famitsu is Cooking Mama, a stylus-based game that lets players experience cooking!

In Cooking Mama, you follow recipes to prepare a number of real world dishes, from fried eggs to cabbage meat rolls. You make use of the touch pen for cutting vegetables, mixing ingredients in a fry pan and even preparing the final layout for your meal.

The game features real recipes and promises to teach players how to cook. Players will also be able to make their own recipes if they're in the mood for experimentation.

Taito's new DS support doesn't end there, though. The company is also at work on a new puzzle game called Monster Bomber. In this title, you shoot out colored balls at colored enemies that approach the bottom screen from the top screen. Your goal is to destroy the enemies, which can be done by shooting them with like-colored balls. The game promises all the expected features of a puzzle game, including combos and wireless play.

Both Cooking Mama and Monster Bomber are set for Japanese release on 3/23. They will be preceded by the Japanese release of Top Gun on 2/23, also from Taito.

-from IGN

One has to wonder if the Revolution Cooking tech demo influenced this.

 

[Xrenity]

Won't be making it to the west I guess

And I'm wondering what fun it is to cook on a 2D screen.

 

[belgurdo]

This isn't a game about a shut in who has to eat his mother because he can't afford to bury her? Darn

 

[Frank the Great]

what a sexist game

 

[BocoDragon]

This is sooooo DS.

 

[xaosslug]

"to be ported down to the Revolution"

oh snap!

 

[PhoenixDark]

Sounds like a hit to me.

 

[xaosslug]

toooo late! EyeToy already has a cooking game to satisfy that demo. lol

 

[PhoenixDark]

toooo late! EyeToy already has a cooking game to satisfy that demo. lol

OMG NINTENDOUGH STEALS AGAIN NO INNOVATI0N

 

[John Harker]

This should just be training software.

"I expect a hot meal when I get home from work - and now I get one, every day!
Thank you DS... Thank you!"

 

[Leonsito]

Another million seller, you heard it here first !

 

[Beergut]

A cooking simulator???
Oh, come on!!!
Next thing you know, you'll be telling me a pet simulator will sell...

 

[Mama Smurf]

 

[BBunny]

I was waiting for you ........ cooking simulator !!!!!!!!!

(My most valuable toy)

 

[mj1108]

A cooking simulator???
Oh, come on!!!
Next thing you know, you'll be telling me a pet simulator will sell...

Nintendogs.

 

[Oblivion]

Nintendogs.

I think he was making a joke.

Well, at least this proves Nintendo ain't the only one making "non-games".

 

[Kroole]

I'd love a cooking simulation, not just a wacky cooking game. 100+ recipes with instructions + pictures would frigging rock.

 

[sportzhead]

This game + Iron Chef license = Millions sold

 

[Nathan Barley]

If there's a George Foreman Lean Mean Grilling Machine level where you have to close the DS to cook up a delicious steak, then I'm sold.

 

[adamsappel]

Nintendogs.

Wait, you can appreciate the humor of Arrested Development, but that joke went over your head?