BurgerTime

BurgerTime is a platform video game developed and published by Data East for the Deco Cassette System in 1982. Midway Games was authorized by Data East USA to publish versions of the video game not based on the Deco Cassette System.

Gameplay
The game takes place on a system of platforms linked by ladders the player, who controls a chef named Peter Pepper, can walk on and climb. On the platforms are buns, lettuce, burgers and slices of cheese that must be stepped upon in order to make them fall down on the three buns that are at the bottom of the screen in order to make three hamburgers. Three legged sandwhich ingredients as tall as Peter Pepper are in the game with him, though, can travel on the platforms and climb the ladders just as he can and will cause him to lose a life by making contact with him. Peter can, however, stun them for a few seconds by pouring pepper at short range on them, which comes in five units at the start of the game. New units of pepper can be obtained by collecting food or beverage icons that appear on the screen everytime a burger is successfully completed. Peter can also stun the ingredients if he manages to make a layer fall while they are on it. If the player manages to make a layer fall on the enemies, he will eliminate them and earn points but they will regenerate and re-enter the screen almost instantly.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The game is historically important, as it is one of the very first platform games ever made.
 * 2) It boasts nice, colourful and crisp graphics.
 * 3) Very original and funny concept. You are a chef whose goal is to make burgers by making the ingredients fall and pile up at the bottom of the screen but three over-sized legged ingredients, namely: Mr. Hot Dog, a hot dog sausage, Mr. Pickle, a slice of green pickle and Mr. Egg, a giant scrambled egg, travel the area to try and stop you.
 * 4) The music fits the atmosphere of the game well.
 * 5) The gameplay is relatively rich and still holds up very well today.
 * 6) The collision detection is fair and do not advantage you nor the enemies.
 * 7) Very balanced and fair difficulty that still provides a decent challenge. For example, the ingredients are many in numbers but Peter Pepper is faster than them both when it comes to climbing and walking and the pepper attack is very short ranged but can stun an infinite number of enemies, as long as they are all on the same spot.
 * 8) It is one of the few games that can make you work on an appetite.

Reception
BurgerTime is regarded by every generation of gamers as a great and still enjoyable classic of the early history of video games. Its success was such that it was ported to many home video game systems like Atari 2600, NES, ColecoVision, Intellivision, Commodore 64 and others. An enanched version was released for Nintendo Game Boy and a remake featuring Flintstones characters was released for the Nintendo Game Boy Color.