Panic Restaurant

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Panic Restaurant
Developer(s)	EIM
Publisher(s)	Taito
Designer(s)	Kenji Eno
Platform(s)	NES
Release date	1992
Genre(s)	Platform game
Mode(s)	Single player
Media	Cartridge
Input methods	NES controller or joystick

Panic Restaurant (Wanpaku Kokkun no Gourmet World in Japan) was a video game for the NES.

[edit] Gameplay

Panic Restaurant is a platform game 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.

[edit] From Japanese to English

1. Title screen

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 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).