Cooking Mama - Selling like Hotcakes!

[Dr.Finger]

Cooking Mama, Majesco's quirky culinary simulator for the DS, is a bona fide hit.

Next-Gen is reporting (http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6837&Itemid=2) that Majesco has shipped over 500,000 copies of the game. Those numbers are enough to earn the title a sequel, Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends, and a Wii version called Cooking Mama: Cook Off as well.

Coming soon - Cooking Mama: Gordon Ramsay edition, in which your goal is to make Mama cry herself into an asylum and Cooking Mama: Rachel Ray edition, in which you try to hone your perkiness until it reaches critical mass and explodes, killing us all.

[kid cabelgo]

On the subject of rachel ray, has anyone else noticed that her usual perkiness has elevated into something downright unholy in the past few months?

I can't even handle 30 minute meals anymore.

I used to think that Emeryl Live was the most painful show to watch on Food Network, but 30 Minute Meals may have taken the cake.

As for cooking mama, I'm surprised it's selling so well. I played the demo and it didn't really seem all that fun to me. I'd love to see a really well made cooking game though. Maybe the sequel will be better.

[digitalErich]

It's probably due to the truckloads of money she's been raking in lately.

[bean19]

Cook Off sounds fun. . . like Iron Chef.

[Kweli]

Hahaha, i like the ramsay edition...
There can be a minigame... try to see how many swear-words you can use before the chicken is cooked

[joruussuun]

Cooking Mama: Good Eats! (With Alton Brown) Edition

[Mdot23]

On the subject of rachel ray, has anyone else noticed that her usual perkiness has elevated into something downright unholy in the past few months?

I can't even handle 30 minute meals anymore.

I used to think that Emeryl Live was the most painful show to watch on Food Network, but 30 Minute Meals may have taken the cake.


Seriously, i'm with you. When she was newer and nobody knew who she was, it was much better. Now I just want to F her mouth to shut her up.

Side note, I love the Food Network. Best shows, imo, are Iron Chef, Boy Meets Grill, Throwdown, Dinner: Impossible.

[Worldcrafter]

I got this game for my girlfriend because it sounded like something she would like, but we were disappointed to find you don't really go through the process of making a meal. Instead you complete under 1 minute minigames for each of the "stages" involved in cooking the meal and there is a jarring "stage complete" screen for each which really ruins any of the meal's flow.

Also, Mama's engrish is annoying.

[Mashidar]

Coming soon - Cooking Mama: Gordon Ramsay edition, in which your goal is to make Mama cry herself into an asylum.

I don't know, taking this image from a smash brothers thread that Destoo posted in, I can only assume that Mama might be able to dish it back out at Ramsay. :D

http://www.modojo.com/media/games/cooking_mama/big.jpg

On topic though, I have yet to play the title. Something keeps putting me off from picking it up. There's always another game that I'd rather spend my money on I suppose.

[TheFlyingOrc]

I got this game for my girlfriend because it sounded like something she would like, but we were disappointed to find you don't really go through the process of making a meal. Instead you complete under 1 minute minigames for each of the "stages" involved in cooking the meal and there is a jarring "stage complete" screen for each which really ruins any of the meal's flow.

Also, Mama's engrish is annoying.

BLAVO!!!!!

The game is OK, the Wii version is definitely not worth the price of admission, though.

[sprankton]

The DS version was alright for the first few little games, but the Wii version was down right HORRIBLE. It was a cooking abortion of a grand magnitude.

[TheFlyingOrc]

The DS version was alright for the first few little games, but the Wii version was down right HORRIBLE. It was a cooking abortion of a grand magnitude.
See, I didn't find it that bad. It wasn't a great game, but there's only one motion that I have trouble getting right - most reviewers claimed they couldn't make the game work at all.

[Wolvie]

The basic idea of Cooking Momma is cool, but the presentation was too "Barbie doll" for my tastes... felt like I was playing a girls game. If they ever made a Iron chef game on the DS or Wii I might check it out.

Also, yeah Rachel Ray is annoying as hell. "Hi everyone! I"m Rachel Ray AND TODAY I'M GOING TO BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!" God she makes me want to drive cork screws into my ears whenever she's on TV. I can't change that channel fast enough.

[BabyJesus]

Rachel Ray edition, in which you try to hone your perkiness until it reaches critical mass and explodes, killing us all.[/I]

With horrid bright orange utensils. :ugh:

[LilAbner]

500,000 shipped is very different from 500,000 sold.

[Lothair]

500,000 shipped is very different from 500,000 sold.

Well, duh, but still the fact that they've had sales to the point where they've had to manufacture and sell 500,000 is pretty impressive and indicative of success. There's no way that the 500K was the initial print run.

[claws]

On topic though, I have yet to play the title. Something keeps putting me off from picking it up. There's always another game that I'd rather spend my money on I suppose.
The stylus usage isn't bad, but it's a definite rental rather than a buy. It's quite easy, there's no flow to it and it's just not that involving.

[agentgray]

Coming soon - Cooking Mama: Gordon Ramsay edition, in which your goal is to make Mama cry herself into an asylum and Cooking Mama: Rachel Ray edition, in which you try to hone your perkiness until it reaches critical mass and explodes, killing us all.
Screw all that. I'll take Cooking Mama Giada DeLaurentis edition.

http://images.scrippsweb.com/FOOD/2003/12/16/Giada_De_Laurentiis2_e.jpg

[Mdot23]

Ol' Big head?

[Wolvie]

Ol' Big head?

You mean BIG TEETH. That woman has the largest mouth and teeth I've ever seen, it's like god had an obnoxious moment while creating Giada.

[Zacharai]

I got drunk and started playing Lost in Blue 2 last night.

Whaddya know, it has a Cooking Mama minigame. After playing that for a few hours, I have no desire for the real thing.

[Dr.Finger]

Screw all that. I'll take Cooking Mama Giada DeLaurentis edition.

http://images.scrippsweb.com/FOOD/2003/12/16/Giada_De_Laurentiis2_e.jpgYou'd have to be able to play that version one handed. Fap fap fap.

[Mdot23]

You mean BIG TEETH. That woman has the largest mouth and teeth I've ever seen, it's like god had an obnoxious moment while creating Giada.

Yea, everything from her neck up is enormous. she's got a hot bod though.

[joshkdmw]

Coming soon - Cooking Mama: Gordon Ramsay edition, in which your goal is to make Mama cry herself into an asylum and Cooking Mama: Rachel Ray edition, in which you try to hone your perkiness until it reaches critical mass and explodes, killing us all.

Don't forget Cooking Mama: Owen Lift edition, in which you proposition a friend to kill your mama in exchange for you killing their ex-wife.

[LilAbner]

Giada's big mouth sure will come in handy when she's with me.

Hey OOOOOOOOOO!

[MaiXu]

Yet more proof that Nintendo's platforms are nothing more than filters for first-party content! Damn you, Nintendo! Give a third party a chance!

[Koi]

Cooking Mama: How to Peel Carrots & Potatoes Edition

[joshkdmw]

Giada's big mouth sure will come in handy when she's with me.

Hey OOOOOOOOOO!

That was in poor taste.

[Opty]

That was in poor taste.
That's what she said.

[destoo]

I don't know, taking this image from a smash brothers thread that Destoo posted in, I can only assume that Mama might be able to dish it back out at Ramsay. :D

But but... She's GOT NO NOSE!!! WHERE IS IT? DID IT FALL IN THE SOUP??

Cooking Mama: Soylent Green edition.

[Shodan2020]

Runderful! Bettar zan Mama!

Mama knows best! :D

[CooterTKE]

Don't forget Cooking Mama: Owen Lift edition, in which you proposition a friend to kill your mama in exchange for you killing their ex-wife.

is that from Throw Mamma from the Train?

[Nicodemus]

Nobody's posted the "it prints money" gif yet? What's going on?

[KingGorilla]

http://z.about.com/d/gourmetfood/1/0/0/5/Nigella400x233.jpg

I can play with my Wii for Nigella Lawson.

[JRR006]

Ugh, Rachel Ray! She always tastes her dishes and makes a huge show of going "Mmmmm, that's soooo delicious." Like you'd retch and spit it out on camera even if it was a big bowl of cold crap.

I like Cooking Mama, and my young cousin does too. :) I do prefer the Wii version - good to hear there will be another one.

I too would like to see a Gordon Ramsey edition. Mama could take him.

[Trazzlo the Magnificant]

http://z.about.com/d/gourmetfood/1/0/0/5/Nigella400x233.jpg

I can play with my Wii for Nigella Lawson.
I think she was our waitress once. I remember because my wife said "You know, it would be nice if you looked up at her head once in a while." I did answer honestly by saying "She has a head?!?!". I found out that sleeping in bus shelters is hard on the back.

[Wolvie]

Yea, everything from her neck up is enormous. she's got a hot bod though.

True that, true that.

http://z.about.com/d/gourmetfood/1/0/0/5/Nigella400x233.jpg

I can play with my Wii for Nigella Lawson.

Nigella for the win. God damn she's hot, my type of gal completely. Dark hair, voluptuous... I might just have a fap fest over her after seeing that pic. ;)

[joshkdmw]

is that from Throw Mamma from the Train?

It is indeed. I was hoping someone wold get the reference.