As you may be aware, the Atari brand is in the midst of another comeback, primarily with the Atari VCS system and its recent wider release into some territories. Atari is also seeking to revitalise its iconic game brands, and has announced that Food Fight is getting a new title in 2022.
It's being developed by Mega Cat Studios (Coffee Crisis), and promises a modern take on the 1983 arcade (and its Atari 7800 follow-up). Some PR blurb is below.
Dodge! Dip! Dinner Roll! Food Fight unleashes all manner of food-based frenzy upon players looking to take control of the food court! Featuring single-player, co-op, and online multiplayer modes, the reimagined new game offers a plethora of potential gameplay scenarios, further supported by procedurally generated environments to ensure the food fighting fun never goes stale. Players can collect and choose from over 30 individual weapons, items, and special pick-ups, each with their own kitchen characteristics, such as “slippery” or “sticky.”
You can see a video of the arcade original below, to give you an idea of where the new project will find inspiration.
The game will first launch on Atari VCS early next year, but Nintendo Switch is named along with other platforms as getting it after that period of exclusivity.
If any of you played the original we'd love to hear about it in the comments!
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Is it weird the first thing that came to my mind was this?
Sometimes, it feels like devs listen to what I say hehe.
Absolute classic game.
Food fight is one of the best games. Awesome
I would buy the Arcade Archives of the original.
I totally forgot about this one!
the people demanded it
@Crockin we so did
The original arcade game is great, and the Atari 7800 version was too. I have the arcade version on my NES Mini because there's no other way to play it, so I'd gladly buy it or any sequels on the Switch.
I thought you meant the movie, and I thought Hell had just frozen over.
Funnily enough, I've been playing the 7800 version of Food Fight a lot this week on Evercade. Love it.
While Classic Atari made a lot of classic Arcade and 2600 games, many of them still hold up today, and the ones that don't, were still good at launch, these franchises have no place today as AAA releases, the can only work as deluxe indie titles.
Current Atari is a disgrace, they should go bankrupt already to stop soiling the name of the real Atari that does not exist anymore.
This should have been a mini game in Cooking Mama, but hey better late than never 👄🍩🍦🍫🍬🍭
What so fascinating about this game I wonder? 🤔🤔
I got a physical 4K version of this game at home already. It's called me throwing food at people and eating all the ice cream. All joking aside an Arcade Archive of this for Switch would be nice. As for a retro remaster/remake, so long as it doesn't look like mobile trash I may try it.
Doubt it will be any good, but if it possibly opens up the path for the arcade original to appear on current systems, I'd be happy. The Atari 7800 and Atari 8-bit ports would be nice as well (Also as a note to the editor, the 7800 game is an arcade port and not a sequel).
The arcade original was one of the "killer apps" for Microsoft's somewhat lackluster Game Room service on the Xbox 360 and remains the only time the arcade game has popped up in the era of commercial videogame emulation. Was a refreshing change of pace from the same small lineup reappearing every time like Asteroids.
Food Fight along with Konami's Juno First and Jackal are the primary reasons Game Room is still installed on my Xbox 360's in 2021.
I too used to play this on the 7800 and I loved it. It was an ultimate fantasy at that age to just run around and throw food at people.
Loved it in the arcades and on the 78! Great fun! Hopefully they will include the original in this comeback release! 👍
Had this on the Atari (I think it’s actually still somewhere in my parents loft), I seem to remember the console being called the Atari 2600 though - I wonder if that was a UK specific thing!
No just looked it up, it was the 7800. The 2600 was the even older one My dad let us play on! Had missile command and everything. Oh those were the days!
I played Food Fight only one day, at a restaurant called Pizza, Pipes, and Pandemonium in Groton Connecticut. It was a cousin’s bday party and the venue was like an independent prototype of Chuck E Cheese, where it’s half pizza banquet hall, half arcade. But with “pipes” because they would play fun kid songs on a large pipe organ during intermissions, as we all ate at a huge wooden table. (No murderous animatronics, if you’re wondering.)
I think I was 10 or 11, I had a great time and I still remember it fondly. Food Fight was my favorite of the dozens of cabinets they had there. I haven’t played it since, so I’m excited they’re bringing it back!
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