I absolutely adore this game. I don’t know how else to describe it. I never actually played it, except I had a little LCD BurgerTime game that i got handed down from my brothers.

It was my friend when we took a family trip to Korea one summer a long while. I played it on the airplane for 30+ hours (there and back) all over the countryside, in the taxis through Seoul, and everywhere else we went. From the Imperial Palace, to the outdoor markets, BurgerTime was never far from me. I could play at night too, when I turned the sound off. And I was good. I played for hours.

So much, that my brothers stopped asking me for it and my mom and dad just told them “let your little sister play”. It was old, beaten and tattered, but I loved it.

Basic idea here is simple. You build burgers by walking onto the burger parts. Lettuce, cheese, onions, meat, and buns. The parts got more varied as the level progressed, but while Chef builds these burgers, nasty renegade food chase you down. Eggs, Hotdogs, and dreaded Pickles. You’re only armed with a pepper shaker as your defense, which just freezes the baddies for a few seconds.

Take each item down one at time, or go the for big move of stacking bad guys on the top and using their weight to build a burger (and points) in one swoop. Slip-up and die. Time it right, and it’s burger glory for you!

Controls respond well, but sometimes they feel just a little sticky, but you get used to it. Any gamer can compensate for these controls.

The music here is appropriately 8-bit, whimsical tunes that repeat and get burned into your brain. You’ll hum them if you play enough like me.

It’s funny when a hot-dog is chasing me. Yes boys, read into it, but it’s just funny. I hate the pickle and the egg. Those bastards move like the wind. Checking it out on the ColecoVision is just glorious fun and it shouldn’t be missed if you’re into retro games and you might actually find yourself smiling and laughing out loud like I did.

Another Editor’s View


I pretty much agree with Sara’s view of this game. I’ve played this game in the arcades and my parents bought me one of those LCD BurgerTime games too. Man, this game had the classic gameplay of Lode-Runner, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong…only on hamburgers. If you played this game, you were jonesing for a hamburger afterwards. Strange though, I always found myself wanting to take revenge on a hot-dog, eggs, and pickle slices by wolfing them down too.

The classic fun comes through on ColecoVision without any loss, in my opinion. Perhaps in the arcade things were a little more fluid, but you hardly notice it on this conversion. In this game, you discovered tricks the more you played. If you timed it just right, you could get Eggman and HotDog boy to follow you onto a bun up top and wham, you send them down into burger heaven along with your fully built hamburger all in one step. It was challenge though. Take one wrong step, and you’re Egg food.

Any game that makes you laugh and hungry at the sametime is pretty darn awesome in my book.

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