[Amusing] Iron Chef game headed to PS2

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Become a Master Chef, and find out just how hard it is to find the ingredients for food! The mischievous Baby Mice have stolen your all important ingredients, and made a general mess of your kitchin with food flying everywhere. Knock the ingedients into your basket and keep an eye out for the Baby Mice who will not hesitate to empty your basket.

Oh whoops, it's not based on the TV show. =) Welcome to the delightful world of Phoenix Games, a company so proud of their extremely cheap, shoddy heaps of entertainment that their slogan is even 'The ONLY European SUPER Budget Publisher'! In this thread, we sit back in our e-beanbags, sip our e-coffee, spill it all over the internet as a result and dedicate a thread to the true heroes of the video game industry! Taking full advantage of Sony Europe's 'we don't give a rats arse' quality control, Phoenix have decided to pump out budget games at an alarming rate for the value hungry hippo consumers. There's currently around NINETY titles listed on their site, all priced at a wallet destroying £7.99 ($15 US).

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Software Publishers are committing ever greater resources to an ever diminishing number of product releases. In commercial terms it is seem to be more prudent to invest money in the next Tomb Raider sequel than it is to invest in some new and speculative venture. Major corporations are solely geared to money making and sometimes lose grip of the nature of the creative enterprise in which they are engaged. The creators of original products are usually independent development companies that have a creative dream.

An excellent quote from Phoenix themselves. A real tear jerker, finally, a publisher for the creative developers! Interesting then, that a number of their creative games consist of completely ripping off character designs.


OH PACCIE YOU HUNGRY FELLOW!

Or how about the great Son of The Lion King which features a colouring game, a memory game and a full length cartoon!


"Simba, your new name is Robin!"
"But daaaaad"

Their website also boasts that they can go from the start of development to shoving the game out the door in only three months, which has to be a world record and worthy of putting A.A.A. in the list! Some titles deserve genuine eyebrow raising, though. The likes of Carwash Tycoon, complete with in-game comic sans text. How does this even play? Is it an actual sim type game or just some sort of.. something? With Phoenix Games, the answer is unknown! Even upon playing it, no doubt! This is the true power of a company filled with mystery grab bag developers. And the real good news? They're already slapping together PSP games! Will PS3 be next? Could we perhaps see a sequel to the glory of..





in all sorts of stunning HD resolutions one day? Why with the space of Blu-Ray, they could fit a hundred thousand different vans in! And a few cartoons! And while I often buy obscure budget PAL PS2 games on purpose for science, I've yet to give my support to these legends. One day, Phoenix. One day. See America, this is what you REALLY miss out on thanks to Sony's anti-2D/anti-shit law!

Have a fun! Enjoy!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Rock

Yeah, this sort of budget games regularly appears in German food discounters. One of these days, I'll surely buy one (for science, of course).

Also, I find the Son of The Lion King cover really disturbing with all the extreme bondage going on:



And just look at that cute mouse pleading for its life! It's so exciting.

"Look Ma, what's that lion going to do with the little mouse?"

- "You're not old enough to know, son."

Hahaha, I think this also spills onto this cover too;



There's a hand going somewhere unknown and there's gotta be something going on between the bear and pig. Plus the lion has just kicked the monkey in the worst possible place, that's not a good message for the children who'll get stuck with this game one birthday! "HERE'S THAT NEW FIFA GAME YOU WANTED!"

Originally Posted by Gechmir

Good fuckin' lord... Lion King animation screenshots remind me of a particular Nintendo system... ^^

Yeah seriously. ;__;


AUGH!

And an actual Iron Chef game would be totally awesome. <3 MAYBE ONE DAY!

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Cobalt Katze

Hahaha... I knew I recognized something in this box art...

Ahahahaha holy crap, good eye!

Originally Posted by Shiny McShine

These games look hilarious, although I would like to see a REAL Iron Chef game for the Wii. You could flip your pans and chop your vegetables and stuff with the Wii-mote. That would rock ass.

That would be awesome! Closest we'll probably get is Cooking Mama though.

Also WHOA, Phoenix just announced 'Skateboard Madness X-Treme Edition', due out in March. I wonder where the non-X-Treme edition is? I saw a few of their other titles in EB the other day, but $20 AUD is just something I can't possibly hand over no matter how much depressing hilarity they may provide. I'd be prepared to pay like $10 for these disasters at the most. Only a matter of time!

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

They probably don't even know Phoenix Games exist, much like the rest of the sane world. ='D

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?