Cooking Mama (2006, Nintendo DS)
All of these games dealt with food and drink in one way or another, but none attempted to put cooking front and center. Cooking Mama was the first game to effectively convey the tactile joys of cooking—chopping, sautéing, stirring, and peeling—using the newfangled touch screen on the Nintendo DS. It doesn’t get much simpler: Players select from a menu of dishes to prepare, from Western standards like spaghetti bolognese and fried chicken to tempura and tofu sushi, then race through a list of steps, slicing across the screen to chop vegetables and flicking at panhandles to sauté. Cooking Mama later made its way to the Nintendo Wii, where full motion control made the grunt work even more physical—not exactly a relaxing way to wind down after racing to get dinner on the table for your family.
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