Pressure Cooker (video game)

Pressure Cooker

Developer(s) Activision
Publisher(s) Activision
Designer(s) Garry Kitchen
Platform(s) Atari 2600
Release date(s)

Pressure Cooker is an Atari 2600 video game released by Activision in 1983. It has arcade-style gameplay, in which the player is a short-order cook at a hamburger stand who must assemble and package hamburgers to order without letting ingredients or hamburgers fall to the floor.

Gameplay

During the game, hamburgers go through an oven and are placed on a conveyor belt headed in the player's general direction. In order to satisfy customers' orders (seen on a chart at the bottom of the screen), the player must catch the flying toppings for a particular order and place them on the burger. Once a burger is assembled, the player must catch the top bun, place it on the burger, and then drop the completed burger into the proper colored slot. Once all the slots are filled, the level ends, and the player receives bonus points for remaining performance points (see below) and for every burger successfully completed.

In the assembly room, the player must collect the right ingredients and assemble the hamburger.
Once a hamburger is assembled, the player then enters the wrapping room and drops it down one of the chutes.

Performance points

The player begins the game with 50 performance points. Errors that result in the loss of performance points include:

Once the player loses all their points, the game is over.

Legacy

In 2004, a freeware remake version of Pressure Cooker called Burgers Rush was made. It keeps the same gameplay while using 3D graphics. [1]

Pressure Cooker was made available on Microsoft's Game Room service for its Xbox 360 console and for Windows-based PCs on September 29, 2010.

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