Atarihas surprise-droppedMega Cat Studios’Food Fight: Culinary Combaton Steam today. Previously, the title wasonly availableon Atari’s own VCS console.
Food Fight: Culinary Combatis an arena shooter take on the classicFood Fightarcade game. There’s local and online multiplayer, four modes, six maps, and even split-screen.
Strangely, a lot of the marketing information focuses on what goes around the multiplayer itself. There’s an Atariverse hub where you can talk to characters from other games and the creators of the originalFood Fight. You can also find circuit boards to unlock Atari arcade games, and more cosmetic items for character customization. Which sounds rad, but I still don’t know much about how the game actually plays.
The four game modes are Buffet Brawl, King of the Cone, Cookie Collector, and Crumbling, which aren’t very descriptive names. The Steam listing has a tag for PvE, which is suggested in the trailer but not in the store blurb.
Atari fans seem to look favorably on the VCS version. The most significant complaint I could find was that, because the VCS is a US-only console and it has a small userbase, it was sometimes difficult to find people to play with. Hopefully, with the Steam release, things will be more lively.
Food Fight: Culinary Combatis now available for the Atari VCS and PC. Console versions are planned.
