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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?

#8 Yume Penguin Monogatari

AKA Penguin Dream Story Famicom: 1991


Penguin Dream Story, meanwhile, has a much more complicated relationship with food. This Konami classic stars Penta, a very chubby penguin. His goal? To slim down for his estranged girlfriend, Penko.

And now for the game's "human interest" element: Penko is dating Ginji, a "stylish" and presumably sexually appealing penguin who wears sunglasses and a top hat. Although the only comestibles in the game are Ginji's own brand of weight-loss shakes, enemies "force-feed" Penta "back to obesity" (thanks, Wikipedia, for helping with the most disturbing paragraph I will type in this lifetime).

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