Cooking Mama
The gameplay structure consists of the player progressing through a series of short minigames. The game features a total of 96 different dishes. Each minigame represents a different activity in the meal…
Cooking Mama is a simulator developed by Office Create, released 23 March 2006 on Nintendo DS and iOS.
What Cooking Mama is
Cooking Mama is a simulator game developed by Office Create and released in 2006. It was published by 505 Games. It is available on Nintendo DS and iOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Cooking Mama is a 2006 cookery simulation video game developed by Office Create for the Nintendo DS. It was later ported to iOS as Cooking Mama: Let's Cook! in 2009. It was published by Taito, Majesco, and 505 Games. It was awarded IGN's "Best Of E3" award for 2006. It is the start of the Cooking Mama series, with 4 more main series titles on DS and Nintendo 3DS, two spin offs on Wii, and a spin off on 3DS. It also spins off into the Gardening Mama series. For later titles in the series, the publishers and Office Create joined to form Cooking Mama Limited, which was made exclusively to develop the Cooking Mama series.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Cooking Mama holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Cooking Mama launched on 23 March 2006, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II and Daxter. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Daxter.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Cooking Mama yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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