Panic Restaurant

Nintendo exclusivePort

Hot dogs on legs, jumping eggs, flying apple slices, hungry hamburger buns, pans shooting fried shrimp - WHAT'S GOING ON?? Ever since the mad chef, Ohdove, stole the Eaten Restaurant from Cookie, strange things have been happening! To win back the Eaten, Cookie must face a restaurant that has come to life! Mutant food and appliances are just eager to cook Cookie! But Cookie knows his way around a restaurant, so armed with just a few simple kitchen tools, he is going to challenge Ohdove and the army of mutants!

Released: 24 April 1992
Platforms: NES
Genres: Platformer
Developers: EIM
Publishers: Taito
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Side view
Themes: Action Horror Comedy
Country: Japan
Languages: English

About

Panic Restaurant, known in Japan as Wanpaku Kokkun no Gourmet World (わんぱくコックンのグルメワールド), is a 1992 platform game developed by EIM and published by Taito for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Panic Restaurant 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 in six levels before taking on Ohdove in a final battle.

Keywords

abstract
pizza
chef
chef's hat
turkey
regional port

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Development

Kenji Eno was the game's designer. The names of the game's main character and villain were changed when the game was localized for Western audiences. In the Japanese version, the hero is a chef named Kokkun. The main villain was named "Hors d'Oeuvre"; the name "Ohdove" was the result of an incorrect transliteration of a French word to Japanese and then to English.

In the overseas versions the "Clobber Pan" replaced the chef's head as the default weapon. Also, the best weapon was the "Wacky Pan", which did not exist in the Japanese version.

Reception

Panic Restaurant received generally positive reviews from video game critics. Power Unlimited gave a score of 80% commenting: "Panic Restaurant is one of the tastiest platform games of all time. You work your way through the six levels in this game, because there is good food everywhere. The juicy graphics and crunchy humor only add to this."