If Pac-Man’s never-ending buffet encouraged binge pizza eating, Burgertime was the food nightmare that followed. The player is a chef who builds giant hamburgers by running over their constituent ingredients (buns, meat patties, lettuce). And while tread-upon meat isn’t very appetizing, the chef’s freakish pursuers are what lend the game its fever-dream quality. Anthropomorphic sausages, fried eggs with legs, and murderous pickle slices dog our poor chef tirelessly around the screen. Luckily, a dash of pepper stuns the evil ingredients just long enough to let you drop the super-sized burger constituents on them. If you don’t believe that this game was creepy, just check out the TV commercial.
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