Panic Restaurant
Encyclopedia
Panic Restaurant, known in Japan
as , is a platform
video game developed by EIM
and published by Taito
for the NES
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that stars a chef named Cookie who must navigate through his own restaurant, which has been cursed by a rival chef named Ohdove. Cookie has to battle evil food monsters with kitchen utensil weapons before taking on Ohdove in a final battle.
The game has 6 levels.
In USA title screen the background was changed to Black. In Japanese version you can see "Disco/Taito 1992", in USA - "Taito 1992".
2. Hero
In the Japanese version, the hero is a chef named Naughty Kokkun. In the U.S. version the hero is Cookie, whose appearance was modeled after Chef Boyardee
. In the Japanese version, Kokkun's head was the default weapon, while in the version released in the United States the Clobber Pan was default weapon. In the U.S. version the best weapon was the Wacky Pan, which didn't exist in Japanese version.
3. Villain
The Japanese name of the villain was "Hors D'Oeuvre." This naturally resulted in some linguistic confusion, in transliterating a French name to Japanese and back into English. Thus the Western game's villain was compromisingly renamed Ohdove (or in some sources O'Dove).
Japan
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as , is a platform
Platform game
A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...
video game developed by EIM
EIM (video game developer)
was a Japanese game development company established in 1989 by programmer/musician Kenji Eno, who later started WARP and fyto.-Games:*Casino Kid 2 *Juuouki...
and published by Taito
Taito Corporation
The is a Japanese publisher of video game software and arcade hardware wholly owned by publisher Square Enix. Taito has their headquarters in the Shinjuku Bunka Quint Building in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, sharing the facility with its parent company....
for the NES
Nintendo Entertainment System
The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987...
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Gameplay
Panic Restaurant is a platform gamePlatform game
A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...
that stars a chef named Cookie who must navigate through his own restaurant, which has been cursed by a rival chef named Ohdove. Cookie has to battle evil food monsters with kitchen utensil weapons before taking on Ohdove in a final battle.
The game has 6 levels.
From Japanese to English
1. Title screenIn USA title screen the background was changed to Black. In Japanese version you can see "Disco/Taito 1992", in USA - "Taito 1992".
2. Hero
In the Japanese version, the hero is a chef named Naughty Kokkun. In the U.S. version the hero is Cookie, whose appearance was modeled after Chef Boyardee
Chef Boyardee
Chef Boyardee is a brand of canned pasta products sold internationally by ConAgra Foods. Named after its founder, Italian-American immigrant Ettore Boiardi, the company began production in the United States in the 1920s...
. In the Japanese version, Kokkun's head was the default weapon, while in the version released in the United States the Clobber Pan was default weapon. In the U.S. version the best weapon was the Wacky Pan, which didn't exist in Japanese version.
3. Villain
The Japanese name of the villain was "Hors D'Oeuvre." This naturally resulted in some linguistic confusion, in transliterating a French name to Japanese and back into English. Thus the Western game's villain was compromisingly renamed Ohdove (or in some sources O'Dove).