Topic: Major League Eating: The Game Coming to WiiWare

[Kairon]

Mastiff's "gurgitory" title promises online play and extensive use of the Wii remote.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=15442

 Major League Eating: The Game to Debut as a WiiWare Exclusive    

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - (Feb. 29, 2008) - Video game publisher Mastiff announced today that their upcoming title, Major League Eating: The Game, will makes its debut as an exclusive on WiiWare™, Nintendo's new downloadable game service for the Wii™ console, which launches May 12 in North America. The game will make extensive use of the Wii Remote™ to simulate the fast and furious action of a professional eating competition.    

"Watching Major League Eating is like watching poetry in motion" says Bill Swartz, Head Woof at Mastiff. "Professional gurgitators have the grace of ballerinas yet the brute strength, mental focus, and intestinal fortitude to push their bodies and minds as hard as athletes in any other extreme endurance sport. Victory is sweet and defeat can be well, really, really messy. It's an experience we're proud to help bring into the home."    

The game features the world's greatest gurgitory athletes competing across a variety of foods and venues. Built much like a classic fighting game and deeper than a Chicago style deep-dish pizza, MLE: The Game requires players to master a smorgasbord of offensive and defensive weapons including bites, burps, belches, mustard gas and jalapeño flames while cramming and chewing food at a world-class pace. It's not for the faint of heart, the slow of reflex, or those with an overly strong aversion to a Technicolor reversal of fortune.    

Major League Eating: The Game uses the Wii Remote to simulate a variety of eating techniques including the cram, toss, and 'typewriter.' Burp-offs and Hot Potato challenges during the contests keep the competition intense and eaters on their toes.    

Major League Eating: The Game is for one or two players, offers online play and a leader board.    

Major League Eating, the professional league which oversees all top eating events in the nation, including the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, counts among its members Takeru Kobayashi, the Japanese eating phenomenon, and American Joey Chestnut, current champion of the world.

[NWR_pap64]

You know? Even if the premise sounds stupid this might be one of those games that can only be done on the Wii and be a lot of fun to play, if done right of course.

The way they keep talking about how its not going to be pretty will there be vomiting?

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Another GOTY candidate.

[ShyGuy]

That was a PUNtastic press release.

Is eating casual or kiddey? I think the hardtime longcore players only consume Halo themed Mountain Dew.

[Shift Key]

Another GOTY candidate.

[BeautifulShy]

This is a bit hard to swallow.

[Kairon]

This is a bit hard to swallow.

That's because they're stuffing it down your throat.

[Morari]

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[Michael_82]

I'm actually really excited for this.  I guess I'm not very hardcore.  Though, the chances of dying while eating for competitive  purposes does increase the likelihood of death, thus raising it's core harder.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

How noone eats their Remote.

[KDR_11k]

Oh crap, imagine the lawsuits... Soon we'll get a sticker "warning: this device is not edible" to put on our remotes...

[vudu]

There should be a bonus mode where you pretend to drink a lot of water and then can't go to the bathroom.

[RABicle]

Why did Pale' blog on Darkrai lead me here?

[Pale]

It was screwy, but it's supposedly fixed now.. but I can't find the talkback thread.. =P

[Pale]

Found it, and it should be working now.

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