Pressure Cooker
The life of a fry cook is never done
By Jess LaFleurJanuary 22, 2001
Pressure Cooker? Yep, That is the name of the game and cooking burgers is what you do.
I bought this game after talking loudly about my (at the time
small) Atari collection. Some boy on the bus said, "I have some
Atari games!" and he sold them to me for 50 cents a piece (sucker). Anyway
after playing Donkey Kong to death I saw little a old game called Pressure Cooker
but I didn't touch for about a week. I put the cart in and started to play.
There was a little chef and an oven above him and a cool song to listen to.
The graphics are actually quite good. I think that the
programmer, Gary Kitchen, spent a lot of time when writing this game and I'm sure that
Atarians enjoy and admire that. There seems to be quite a bit of detail on the
toppings (except for cheese, that's just a yellow block.)
The sound in the game is pretty much blips and beeps except for a nice
sounding splat when burgers fall. As mentioned earlier, there is some
cool music that starts the game. Its quite lengthy and you MUST listen to it no
matter how much you want to play.
In playing you move the little chef around and look at the bottom for the
order list for hamburgers. The toppings are shoved from the right wall and
the little chef accepts them or rejects them by pressing the fire button. He
then moves the topping to the moving burgers. After finishing an order you
get the top bun and move with the burger down. There the pressure cooker
awaits and you drop it in the correct color cooker as seen in the order sheet (either that or its a serving thing like they have a most major Burger
joints).
Do this enough times and you get advance to the next level.
Drop a burger in the wrong spot or let it drop on the floor, and you lose points
that let you keep playing the game.
You will get annoyed when you miss a burger or don't return the topping you didn't want because you must then waste the burger.
And you lose points which you need to keep you in the game longer...
It's quite an enjoyable game
if you like cooking or like little Italian men with a moustache! I find
this game has a bunch of replay value and I wouldn't trade it for
anything... Except the SwordQuest Blade, or a Jaguar, or a secret prototype Atari game or... well, you get the
idea.
Game Data |
Scores
|
| Title |
Pressure Cooker |
Graphics |
95% |
| Publisher |
Activision |
Sound/Music |
65% |
| Genre |
Action |
Gameplay |
80% |
| System |
2600 |
Control |
N/A% |
|
|
Overall |
80% |
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