BurgerTime is a 1982 arcade game created by Data East for its
DECO Cassette System. The game's original title, Hamburger, was
changed to BurgerTime before its introduction to the US. The player
is chef Peter Pepper, who must walk over hamburger ingredients
located across a maze of platforms while avoiding pursuing
characters. The game was popular in arcades.
When Peter Pepper walks the length of an ingredient (bun, meat
patty, tomato, etc.), it falls one level. If it lands atop another
ingredient, the latter in turn falls one level. A burger is
completed when all vertically aligned ingredients have been dropped
out of the maze and onto a waiting plate. Once 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 ingredient is dropped atop an enemy, or when
support for an ingredient is completely removed and the enemy falls
with the piece. In the latter case, the piece will fall much
farther than normal, depending on how many enemies are on it.
Scoring depends heavily on killing enemies. The more enemies killed
with a single sequence of falling ingredients, 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..
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