'Major League Eating: The Game' Coming Soon for the Nintendo Wii
First there was Cooking Mama for the Wii, where players can prepare and cook a variety of international dishes. It always left me a little unfulfilled, since you never actually got to virtually eat anything you virtually cooked. But the world of virtual (professional) eating is near.
Soon you'll be able to channel your inner Joey Chestnut or Takeru Kobayashi by playing Major League Eating: The Game for the Nintendo Wii. Mastiff, the game's publisher, has announced that it will be released on the Wii on May 12 in North America as a downloadable WiiWare title, for one or two players, with the killer feature of online play and leaderboards.
The game will make "extensive" use of the Wii Remote to "simulate a variety of eating techniques including the cram, toss, and 'typewriter.' Burp-offs and Hot Potato challenges during the contests keep the competition intense and eaters on their toes."
It will play "like a fighting game," requiring players to "master a smorgasbord of offensive and defensive weapons including bites, burps, belches, mustard gas and jalapeño flames while cramming and chewing food at a world-class pace."
This virtual gluttony is officially sanctioned by Major League Eating, the sports franchise that oversees all professional competitive eating events, including the Nathan's Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest. The game will "simulate the fast and furious action of a professional eating competition" and feature "the world's greatest gurgitory athletes." Although it looks like you won't be able to play as your Mii, at least you'll be able to play as your favorite professional eater.
[via nintendowiifanboy]
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8 Comments:
This is a joke, right?
Allan at 8:07AM on 03/03/08
Unfortunately I think this is totally for real.
Raphael at 9:28AM on 03/03/08
I'll start drinking virtual water to stretch out my virtual stomach now.
Erin Zimmer at 10:14AM on 03/03/08
I'm totally getting a Wii just for this!
bearsilber at 1:26PM on 03/03/08
Just what young people need, COMPETITIVE EATING.
AllenW at 12:14AM on 03/04/08
this is the funniest thing i've heard all day.
lexophile at 4:58PM on 03/04/08
Are you serious AllenW?
Are you in turn saying that Burgertime was a influential title in regards to the eating practices of young people? There are a slew of videogames out there that related to food, the preparation and consumption of. I don't think that any of them have a strong impact on young people.
At least MLE doesn't involve car-jacking and killing everything in site.
sireatsalot at 3:50PM on 03/21/08
Actually, there's a lot more to competitive eating than gluttony. There's also greed. Check out this video of competitive eater Erik Denmark engaging in an economics debate while shoveling food into his mouth
http://www.twistedpine.org/seattleuntimely/index.php5?episodeNum=12
@sireatsalot
Actually Burgertime was much more influential as a vehicle of communist propaganda (sort of like the claim about Mario, but this is real). Check it out.
http://www.twistedpine.org/seattleuntimely/index.php5?episodeNum=22
skeleton69 at 4:38PM on 04/10/08