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BurgerTime Deluxe...
Sep. 17th, 2009 01:46 amIt seems to me as if after doing a few iPhone\iPod Touch games Namco is now dipping their toes into doing Mac games. This is not too hard for them since the the aforementioned devices use versions of Mac OS X and making games for them is not too far off for making games for the Mac. Anyway.... one of their first games I know of is BurgerTime Deluxe.
It's a sequel\remake to the 1982 (non deluxe) arcade game by Data East (pictured below).
Sometimes remakes\sequels to old arcade games don't turn out so well or don't hold a candle to the original. In this case however I think the opposite. The gameplay is spot on and I may even say better than the original. The 1024x768 native resolution graphics are a nice and charming update to the original barebones graphics from the 80's arcade game.
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There's a quick play mode which is pretty much like the arcade where it's just level after level each level it changes you from the two of the new characters in BurgerTime... Then there is "story mode" where you can pic from either the original chef's son or the female character. I tried it first on my notebook running Leopard and then my Mac Mini.
The Mac version seems to lack joystick support but using USB Overdrive you can remedy that. The game itself is $20 though which I think is a little pricey for a game of it's nature. But for someone like me it's very fun and I think I'd rather now play it than the original in M.A.M.E. One time I made a full BurgerTime OS theme for my sister including skins and sound effects.
Anyway, I think pretty much any recent'ish computer can play it. No need to worry about system requirements or anything. I'd be surprised if it didn't run well on a sub 1GHz machine. Here's the info\purchase links:
[PC Version]
[Mac Version]
What's weird is the PC version is $10 (from Namco) and the Mac version is $20 (from MacGamesStore). Economics of scale I guess.
It's a sequel\remake to the 1982 (non deluxe) arcade game by Data East (pictured below).
Sometimes remakes\sequels to old arcade games don't turn out so well or don't hold a candle to the original. In this case however I think the opposite. The gameplay is spot on and I may even say better than the original. The 1024x768 native resolution graphics are a nice and charming update to the original barebones graphics from the 80's arcade game.
Click To See Screenshot
There's a quick play mode which is pretty much like the arcade where it's just level after level each level it changes you from the two of the new characters in BurgerTime... Then there is "story mode" where you can pic from either the original chef's son or the female character. I tried it first on my notebook running Leopard and then my Mac Mini.
The Mac version seems to lack joystick support but using USB Overdrive you can remedy that. The game itself is $20 though which I think is a little pricey for a game of it's nature. But for someone like me it's very fun and I think I'd rather now play it than the original in M.A.M.E. One time I made a full BurgerTime OS theme for my sister including skins and sound effects.
Anyway, I think pretty much any recent'ish computer can play it. No need to worry about system requirements or anything. I'd be surprised if it didn't run well on a sub 1GHz machine. Here's the info\purchase links:
What's weird is the PC version is $10 (from Namco) and the Mac version is $20 (from MacGamesStore). Economics of scale I guess.
