Peter Pepper's Ice
Cream Factory
I had heard of an arcade sequel to
Burgertime and as far as I know, this is it. It is on some odd
Cassette version, which means there is a two minute wait for it
to load at the beginning (which makes me believe it is not an
arcade game). It has some elements of Burgertime and also some
from the Intellivision only sequel, Diner (which is in my
opinion the best Intellivision game and sadly, one that will
never be ported to any other system).
This game keeps the
two dimensional view of the original Burgertime. Once again,
you are moving up and down ladders as you try to make ice cream
cones. This is where it borrows from Diner, you can kick the
balls of ice cream and send them at the awaiting cones. This
will also run over any enemies that happen to be in the way of
the big ball of frozen goodness. And you will need them as
there are a bunch of bad guys in this game and they are quick.
They are also smart, no stupid hot dogs in this game. Also,
this time you do not have any pepper to work with. Instead,
they give you the ability to jump. While this is a nice power,
I would have liked to get some pepper or maybe some salt to
defend myself with.
The game looks good
and there is a wide variety of foes. You have strawberries,
jugs of milk, donuts and what looks like a scale. And you
better get to know them as they will be after you and you will
die often. That is probably the biggest drawback about the
game, it is too hard. I played about 30 games and have yet to
get past the first level. This is coming from someone who has
zoomed through the first five levels on Burgertime without too
much trouble. This is by far the biggest drawback and detracts
from the game.
Being hard would not
be bad if it was fair. But the enemies have the ability to
float over holes that you need to jump over. They also move
faster than you and when they respawn, they can pop up on the
sides and kill you. Then you add in the ice cream scoops that
are sitting on the bottom level, the ones that need to be kicked
upwards and you have a very serious challenge. Too much of a
challenge if you ask me. Couple this with the long loading time
and you have a mediocre sequel.
This is just a review of the arcade machine.
If you are looking for the actual arcade machine, you may want
to check out ebay. Click below to see if you can find this
game.
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