Top 10 Best Food Video Games

August 29, 2012 by Jenn Frank

A lot of games obsess over junk food “power-ups.” But what of those videogames, those bizarre outliers, wherein food is the principal play mechanic, the philosophic center of the narrative?

#10 Fast Food

Atari 2600: 1982

In Fast Food you play as the hero, "Mighty Mouth," who—if the box art is meant to be taken as fact—looks exactly like the pair of lips from the Twizzlers commercials. (Meanwhile, in-game, Mighty Mouth looks more like a plastic set of wind-up chompers.) The goal of the game? To get fat. Yes, really.

Fast Food could well have remained the game industry's only work of "feederism," were it not for…