Mastiff Acquires Major League Eating License for "Interactive Platforms"

[fitbabits]

I have nothing to add, mostly because I jut had breakfast. Here, then, is a press release morsel:

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - February 7, 2008 - Video game publisher Mastiff announced today that they have acquired the Major League Eating (MLE) license for interactive platforms.

Major League Eating, which oversees all top eating events in the nation including the July Fourth hot dog-eating contest, counts among its members Takeru Kobayashi, the Japanese eating phenomenon, and American Joey Chestnut, current champion of the world.
"Major League Eaters aren't just elite athletes," says Bill Swartz, Head Woof at Mastiff. "They are the people who built America. Or at least the competitive eating part of America. And I am deeply honored that the International Federation of Competitive Eating and Major League Eating choose Mastiff as their exclusive videogame partner."

"We knew this sport would lend itself very well to an interactive format," said George Shea of Major League Eating. "Mastiff has the stomach and the sense of humor to pull this off."

Major League Eating: The Game features the world's greatest gurgitory athletes competing across twelve different food types. Built much like a fighting game, MLE: The Game requires players to show brilliant on-screen eating; a mastery of offensive and defensive weapons including burps, belches, and mustard gas; and of course the technical mastery necessary to avoid emptying one's stomach in a vividly colored reversal of fortune.
Actually, it's the WHOLE press release! I guess the gluttony inspired me to go whole hog.

[Sandman]

I smell a button masher.

[Mondopest]

I smell a button masher.

You smell my wife? I swear she is a total button masher. You can't ever play a fighting game against her because it is very difficult to get past her million-kicks-a-second defense strategy.

I take the time to learn moves and special attacks...nope, not her, just hit everything you can as fast as you can.

[EGO]

WTF!?

Seriously!

"Major League Eating"?!?!

Really? Damn, I've seen it all now... tis the end of the world as we know it.

[Bingley Joe]

I've never heard of mustard gas being deployed at a food eating contest before (seems a bit unsportsmanlike, TBH)..

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..but I have heard of a complete and total barf-o-rama :p

[Kuya Cocoy]

Must have been some breakfast if you "jut" have nothing to add.

So... fighting game using the "gross" kind of bodily functions? We'll see.

Mastiff sure do have some massive uh, dogs for giving this a go.

[Kamalot]

Uh, is this serious?

I imagine a minigame festival for Wii where players use the Wii remote and nunchuck to make gestures of 'shoveling food towards face'.

[GunnyMo]

"Major League Eating" is as much as sport as those dimwits who think stacking plastic cups is a sport.:rolleyes:

[lost]

I wonder if they watched Taxidermia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7bqyh4u4xM) before they optioned this?

I swear every shitty license is getting picked up. First Juno then this? What the fuck is wrong with kids TV shows and action films huh?

[LongStepMantis]

I wonder how long until an eating game has hacks.

If you build it...they will cheat.

[jpublic]

Are you shitting me? First of all, what possible gameplay could you get out of this? Second, are you shitting me?

So. Very. Wrong.

[Sandman]

Are you shitting me? First of all, what possible gameplay could you get out of this? Second, are you shitting me?

So. Very. Wrong.

Oh come on it's the easiest buck possible in gaming today....

Choose your eater.

Instructions : Press 'A' button to eat.

Player A pressed 'A' more times than Player B.

Player A wins.

and for the Wii they could do some eating motions.