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The Gamertell staff is taking some time off to be with our families (and very likely play videogames in the other room for many, many hours) for Thanksgiving.

As a special, tasty treat for this holiday, here’s a look at the Gamertell staff’s favorite uses of food in videogames. Also check out our 2007 Thanksgiving Day mashup.

Enjoy!

Jenni Lada: This Thanksgiving my favorite use of food in a video game has to be the elegant mushroom in Animal Crossing City Folk (Wii, 2008). Who doesn’t love a fungus that is worth 10,000 bells? Especially when you have a 100,000+ bell mortgage to pay off. Plus, the Harvest Festival takes place in the game on Thanksgiving.

Kris Rosado: I don’t know if it would be my pick for best use of food, but Fable 2 (Xbox 360, 2008) certainly was the most entertaining use of food this year. Trudging and wheezing around Albion as a the great hero of lard, I slayed a many bandits and Hobbes all while chomping down on a mix of meat and Crunchy Chicks. Sure, I was undesirable to the maidens of the land, even the prostitutes weren’t entirely sure if the money was worth risking their lives under my rippling girth. My hero didn’t care however as he found happiness at the various food vendors whose eyes would light up when they felt the ground shake beneath them knowing pounds of money we coming their way, and of course my ever faithful dog never judged me, so long as I kept up with his dog treats that is. 

Jessi Moen: I can’t believe no one mentioned Princess Tomato In the Salad Kingdom!

The whole game is food! It’s a search and find adventure game for the NES (1991), you play as Sir Cucumber who with the help of a persimmon named Percy, has to save Princess Tomato from the evil Farmies who kidnapped her. Makes sense, huh? You talk to characters and use items or give them to people to move forward in the game. It’s very much like Uninvited and De Ja Vu, only very kid friendly.

All of the characters are fruit’s or veggies with the exception of the Farmies and Lisa (Princess Tomato’s sister) who is a human. (I don’t really know what the Farmies are.) Some of the characters are Minister Pumpkin, The Garlic Wanderer, Sergent Pepper (who’s green but turns red when he’s angry), Carrot the Hermit, you get the idea. Oh and the evil robots that attack you once in while are called Dice-o-Matics…scary. You don’t fight by the way, you play rock/paper/sissors to beat them.

All of the levels have food themes like the Parsley Forsest, Spinach Heights, and Carrot Plateau and all the buildings are made of food. You probably won’t find a game that’s as fun yet healthy as this one!

Jason Townsend-Rogers: Pizza has always been one of my favorite foods. Nothing can surpass the feeling of biting into hot pepperoni and cheese or witnessing the pleasant aroma from around the house. Nothing can beat the sensation of pizza. It makes a great snack when those other “healthy” alternatives are insufficient to fill that ever-expanding black hole called a stomach.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have always succeeded in showing the everlasting virtues of this delectable dish, and while all of their games have showcased the power of pizza for salvation, their fourth adventure, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (SNES, 1992), showcases pizza, and its containers, with the most versatility, whether this means grabbing blue or yellow pizza boxes for health, or bomb shaped boxes for invulnerability.

So, with that said, I would like to thank the Turtles for showcasing how radical this delicacy can be.

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