Descpription:
BurgerTime is a 1982 Japanese arcade game created by Data East
Corporation for its DECO Cassette System. The game's original title, Hamburger,
was changed to BurgerTime before its introduction to the United States.
The player is chef Peter Pepper, who must walk over hamburger ingredients
located across a maze of platforms while avoiding pursuing characters.
When Peter Pepper walks the length of an ingredient, it falls one level.
If it lands atop another ingredient, the latter in turn falls one level.
A burger is complete when all vertically aligned buns, meat patties, and lettuce leaves are
dropped to the bottom of the screen. When all burgers are completed, the level is finished.
While making burgers, Peter Pepper must deal with three enemies: Mr. Hot Dog,
Mr. Pickle, and Mr. Egg. Enemies can be dodged, killed, or temporarily stunned.
Killing occurs when an ingedient is dropped atop an enemy, or when support
for an ingedient is completely removed and the enemy falls with the piece.
Scoring depends heavily on killing enemies. The more enemies killed
with a single sequence of falling ingedients, the higher the score.
Therefore, to obtain the best score the player must endanger
Peter Pepper by allowing more than one enemy to move onto the
ingredient the player is on, just before the player drops it.
