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Mama Cooks It Up For Arcades
GameSetWatch — After bringing her culinary minigames to Nintendo DS, Wii, mobile, and iPhone, Cooking Mama is now setting up her kitchen for arcades. Manufacturer Universal Space showed off a redemption machine for the cooking game at annual amusement industry tradeshow IAAPA this week, inviting attendees to try out its touchscreen gameplay. The pink cabinet and 46" monitor (the setup is priced at $4,600, according to Arcade Heroes) offers a collection of recipes for players to prepare like Ratatouille, Minestrone soup, Sushi, Tortilla, and more. Once they select a dish, players are taken through a ...

Cooking Mama hits the arcades
GoNintendo — Direct link here Cooking Mama doesn’t really strike me as the type of game that would perform well in arcades. Surely, this unit will be in Japan, but I’m not sure it will ever make it stateside. Who knows, maybe it’ll be the next DDR! As far as I can tell, this looks like a simple port of the first Wii version of Cooking Mama. I didn’t think many people liked that version to begin with!

Cooking Mama coming to arcades, looks pretty unsanitary
Joystiq — We hate to go all Howard Hughes on you guys, but we must admit: This touch-screen equipped arcade version of Cooking Mama fills every bone in our body with germophobic discomfort. That can partially be attributed to the fact that we've seen our fair share of filthy hands attached to the wrists of arcade dwellers. Then again, perhaps we ...