Iron Chef video game coming to the Nintendo Wii and DS

Ready to battle Iron Chef Morimoto?

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Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine lets players square off in Kitchen Stadium and battle through a series of fast-paced and intense culinary challenges. Each victory advances players closer to a final showdown that will determine who will reign supreme as the next Iron Chef America.

I hope the bonus rounds let you battle it out with the real Iron Chefs. Give me Hiroyuki Sakai and Rokusaburo Michiba any day over these Iron Chef America guys. And don't forget floor reporter Shinichiro Ohta shouting out "Fukui-san!" every few minutes.

I've written in the past about why the Wii is the ideal platform for video games that have more interaction than those console games that typically only require you to work out your thumbs.

And lest you think that I am all about Wii violence, I like the idea of cooking that lets all us Food Network junkies live out the chef fantasy without having to do any real work.

As a side note I ate at Iron Chef Chen Kenichi's restaurant in Akasaka about five years ago and the food was unrecognizable (despite claiming to be Chinese), but just think of all the fun gameplay that entails.

Via EaterSF

[justdaven]

I just have to say: NOW I have to get a Wii... :)

[jyakimowich]

OK, so the food at Chen Kenichi's restaurant was unrecognizable, but how did it taste? There's got to be a certain bit of culinary adventure there when you bite into something and you have absolutely no clue what it is or what's in it.

[warrenrichards10]

But has it got all the fascinating extras that the true Chefs needs? .The screaming insanity/chaos during the feared dinner rush?, the never ending dockets from waitress?s written in schizophrenic telepathic scribble that?s as uninterpretable as the Rosetta stone?, (unless your on crack). And what about the ?temp? demented kitchen hands having an ?episode? due to some dodgy weed? . Or the manager/owners having a spasm because you threw out a ?slightly? rotten tomato?, (YA COULDA MADA SOUP OUTA DAT!),,,,, and does it have apprentices? , you know ?baby? cooks the ones who stare at a robo coupe as if it?s a quad core processor? Or start whimpering when you mention the word ?hollandaise?. What about the ? tradition of after work drinks??, where you wake up the next morning with the waitress you wanted to murder the night before for stuffing up the entrée?s on table 7, ( don?t laugh, it does happen and 7 times out of 12 it?s the manager/owners daughter. Sorry until the Dark Lord himself puts out a game, (Gordon Ramsey) I?ll pass.
GOD I LOVE HOSPITALITY!!

[compudoc318]

this looks about as exciting as watching paint dry....and i love the iron chef show too....another stupid idea from nintendo, just like the wii itself...