Food Fight

Food Fight is a 1983 arcade game by Atari Games. The player guides an ambitious youth trying to eat an ice cream cone before it melts, while being pursued by four angry chefs.

Overview

In this Golden Age game, the player controls Charley Chuck, a young boy trying to gulp down an ice cream cone positioned on the opposite side of the screen. To accomplish this, he must avoid Oscar, Angelo, Jacques and Zorba, four angry chefs who are apparently disappointed that he does not care for their fare.

Description

Food Fight is unusual in that it allows the player to choose a difficulty level (up to level 9) at the beginning of the game --a feature many games did not adopt until later in the decade. After selecting a level, the game begins.

Food Fight starts with the player on the right side of the screen and the ice cream cone --the goal-- on the left. Blocking his way are several chefs. Also the middle of the playfield contains several piles of food (pies, watermelons, spinach, etc., depending on the level). The player may either outrun the chefs or pick up pieces of food from the piles and dispatch the chefs with some well-aimed throws.

The player must also avoid pits (from which the chefs emerge) and getting hit with food, thrown by the enemy chefs. Upon reaching the ice cream cone, the boy eats it with an enormous gulp and the level ends. Each level is essentially identical, except that the game becomes progressively harder and the flavour of the ice-cream changes. If the hero is hit or caught by the chefs, he is pelted with an enormous amount of food and the player loses a life.

The game features a total of 125 levels.

The controls consisted of an analog joystick and a single button, used for throwing food. This game came as a standard upright, with fewer than 100 cocktail versions being produced.

External links

• The KLOV entry for Food Fight
• Food Fight game movie