Eat up the fun with BurgerTime

BurgerTime is an arcade game created by Data East in 1982. Initially it was designed for their DECO cassette system. The player takes on the role of Chef Peter Pepper who walks over hamburger ingredients located throughout a maze of platforms while avoiding pursuing enemies, in some ways like Mario in Mario Brothers. Burger Time is “a single-screen maze game, the stages are a series of platforms with sections that are made of components of a mighty hamburger,” according to https://www.giantbomb.com/.

Lilliana Ibarra said, “This game looks so fun. Honestly, I’d play it, but probably only if I was super super bored.” Wikipedia.com explains that “Data East USA licensed BurgerTime for distribution byBally Midway as a standard dedicated arcade game. Data East also released its own version of BurgerTime in the United States through its DECO Cassette System.” BurgerTime earned some of its popularity because it can be played on a variety of different platforms: Nintendo Entertainment System, Atari 2600, Wii, Intellivision, and Commodore 64, as well as in arcades around the country.

Wikipedia.com goes on to share that there are “six arcade levels and eight enhanced modes with perils of falling ice and rising fire from the grill. Besides the pepper from the classic game, there is now a salt shaker, that when collected stuns all enemies on the screen.” One might wonder what types of conflict can emerge for a hamburger game, but those include hot dogs, pickles and fried eggs.

Chef Pepper takes his pepper shaker and uses it to stun his enemies, but he has to watch out because there is only so much pepper available. According to www.arcadeclassics.net, the end of the game happens “when all of the
burgers are done, the level is complete.” “I’ve never played this game but it looks kind of boring because I don’t normally play arcade style games,” said Khalia Brewster.