Cooking Mama

by Majesco

Product Features

• Create 76 real dishes or combine recipes to create more advanced meals
• Use the stylus as your master kitchen tool to chop, slice, pan fry, knead, grate, mash and more!
• 1-4 Player
• Cool down hot food by blowing into the Nintendo DS microphone

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000FUWCRY
• Product Dimensions: 4.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: March 19, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (177 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #671 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #1 in Video Games > Nintendo DS > Simulation > Life
  • #27 in Video Games > Nintendo DS > All Games

Product Description

Let's get cookin', Mama! Now you can learn how to cook on your Nintendo DS! Prepare foods, combine raw ingredients, cook the meal and present your culinary masterpiece to Mama for your final score.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

143 of 150 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cooking, cooking!, September 14, 2006

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C. Offen (Ithaca, NY) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cooking Mama (Video Game)

This is a very cute game for the DS. A good one if you've just purchased a DS and want a game that really shows you what a stylus can do. ;) Some recipes are kinda easy, while others proove more challenging. I'm still working on peeling potatoes fast enough. The graphics are very amuzing. I laughed out loud as I spilled water all over the place while trying to drain some pasta. The meals are japanese based...and make you want to go out and make your own gyoza! This is very fun for an adult who likes DS mini games, and it doesn't seem too 'kiddish' as I had feared. I'm so glad this unique japanese game made it to the states. Two thumbs up for Cooking Mama!

190 of 203 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Kitchen Madness, September 22, 2006

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Lestor neeker Wong (Singapore) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cooking Mama (Video Game)

I won't say that Cooking Mama is the best game I've played in recent months. Surely, there's something more important than cooking - like, killing zombies on the X360, for example. However, it's certainly the most innovative, especially when you consider how much you can do on the limited dimensions of a Nintendo DS touch screen.

In Cooking Mama, you're an apprentice in the fine art of cuisine management. Your master, a certain Mama, will put you through a series of saliva-inducing recipes, and will grill you through the preparation of each as if it's the only thing you live for. You can choose to practise before hand, but when you go into the actual process of making a particular food, you'll find that there's no room for error. A wrong move, and Mama will not hesitate to show you her wrath.

Making a food involves several steps. Some are short, while some may take forever. For example, when preparing a pan-fried fish, you'll have to go through the coating of the fish slices, the melting of the butter, the actual pan-frying and the arranging of the plate. Each process in turn involves different ways of doing things. Coating the fish slices, for example, requires you to drag your stylus in a left-right manner while touching the fish. Melting the butter requires you to rapidly drag the butter in a circular motion when it's on a hot plate. Pan-frying involves a "following the command on-screen" mini-game that requires you to perform whatever Mama tells you to, and so on.

The impressive thing here is that, even though you're just stroking your stylus throughout the game's 70+ recipes, you're essentially doing different things. It's a bit like Trauma Centre from last year, but instead of seeing body parts, you're looking at food. If you're more adventurous, you can even combine recipes to form new ones, which adds depth to the gameplay.

For a game as quirky as this, it's understandable that it uses quirky graphics. The presentation of Cooking Mama is light-hearted, and makes the hectic process of cooking (to me, at least) much more enjoyable. The music is a little weak, even though it does have some nice variety. But seriously, graphics and audios are not what you'd buy this game for. I mean, who cares about these things when you've Fried Octopus Balls to make?

For its sheer audacity in bringing the kitchen onto the DS, I'd recommend Cooking Mama to every owner of the DS. Don't expect to see your DS in a few weeks, however, if you bought this game, and have a missus in the house. Now, if only my wife can learn a few tips out of this.

68 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun new innovative cooking game, September 14, 2006

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Cameron Usman (Fort Worth, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cooking Mama (Video Game)

I got this for my girl along with one of the new pink DS Lite and she is loving both the machine and the game. I think anybody that enjoys cooking will probably enjoy this game.

It is basically simple stylus controlled fun little minigames (200+) through which you make 76 real world food items.

It has a great progression so it is easy to learn even if you don't know cooking or don't know how to play games. For example first you learn to make boiled rice which is as simple as adding the right about of water to the pot with a simple minigame... and then if you do that successfully then next you can try making fried rice.

I really like the low price of the game. It should appeal to anybody that enjoys Warioware, Feel the Magic, etc type games.