Casting Call for SNExploration 9 - Motoko-chan no Wonder Kitchen

  • Motoko-chan no Wonder Kitchen
  • Claymates
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Motoko-chan no Wonder Kitchen

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Motoko-chan no Wonder Kitchen (もと子ちゃんのワンダーキッチン, “Little Motoko’s Wonder Kitchen”)[2] or Motokochan in Wonder Kitchen is a 1993 Super Famicom point-and-click video game that features minigames related to cooking. The game was a promotional item with a production run of 10,000 units which were used for a lottery contest. Consumers who mailed in two proof of purchase seals from Ajinomoto mayonnaise received a copy of the game and were entered into the contest, which was run over five months with 2,000 prizes given away monthly.

It’s a mayonnaise game everyone! It won by a landslide, a friggin landslide. Here’s some reading:

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/motokochan/motokochan.htm

Links to sign up and to the discord below:

ROM pack is in the #resources channel of the Discord above!

The Salaryman Corner game is called "Battle Jockey” which sounds absolutely incredible and probably won’t be. But it sounds really good!!

I’m looking to get 6 total people (or less, I guess). If you’ve never participated before, I’m going to prioritize your signup!!! So don’t be afraid to sign up even if it looks full.

As a reminder, we discuss the game based on 5 topics, listed below without description:

Gun
Vanity
Mystery
Poetry
Harmony

If you’re recording, please play the main game for an hour or so, and take a couple of notes on those 5 topics.

And for Battle Jockey, seriously, don’t spend more than 5 minutes on it unless you’re really digging it.

NEWS FLASH

Even if you’re not recording this week, feel free to write some feedback about this game! I’m going to read anything we get on the show (within reason obviously) so now you can participate…without participating!!!

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Damn these are all good looking options. Also, I played Claymates as an elementary school kid! I probably drew the animals a lot. I loved transformation powerups in games.

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The Claymates deserves to be seen; the front is lovely

and the copy is insane

Love that A.R.D.I.™!

…Dad!

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Fishing Koushien the only fishing game where you can be Drug Level 3

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These all look pretty good for podcasting, but you know I gotta pick that kitchen game. It might actually be fun to play! The screenshot is gorgeous and the game seems like a real oddity in the SNES canon.

Look at this thing!

Motoko-chan no Wonder Kitchen 50

Wonder Kitchen for president!

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Vote for fishing and I will do the podcast.

I must admit, I’m deeply surprised by this result so far:

Claymates and Clayfighter are one of the clearest examples of the weird dissonance I feel when I look at games that I thought had amazing graphics when they came out. Like, I remember them looking like actual claymation instead of… Basically every other 16 bit game? What a world

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Had trouble finding this thread again because the episode number in the title is wrong, it should be episode 9.

Mayonnaise Mama is a hell of a game. For starters, there are animals you can find in the first few environments that drop recipe cards. Trigger those animals to get the recipe card, and they will scurry off to another location. Follow them to that location, and you’ll have to find the ingredients for their recipe throughout the map.

Occasionally this elf-looking dude gives you lectures about the origin of mayonnaise.

Once you’ve gathered all of the ingredients to a recipe, you enter a cooking mini game where you must carry out the recipe. This can be challenging to figure out the steps of if you aren’t able to read Japanese, but you can just brute force it by interacting with every object if you reach a road block. I made this during my commute this morning.

After that, you’ll take it to the titular Motoko-chan, who will tell you if she likes it, and in this case, dropped in an extra recipe for “curry sauce” in her dialogue:

This isn’t a super deep game but it’s dripping with polish compared to most branded games I have seen over years, and I really dig the sprite work.

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Sakurina, please show up to our podcast and guide us through this mayonnaise world

Anyway, I’ve edited the post to be a recruitment thread (and fixed the ep number). Scroll up to sign up!

Repeating this here as well:

NEWS FLASH: now soliciting feedback!

Even if you’re not recording this week, feel free to write some feedback about this game in this thread! I’m going to read anything we get on the show (within reason obviously) so now you can participate…without participating!!!

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there’s a TAS, believe it or not.

i remember the nico version having the tag ‘mayonnaise poisoning’

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Okay so I’m back in town and I finally closed the Doodle. Sunday, 12-2 PM it is! And thanks for waiting an extra week on this one.

@Sakurina @CourierRice @OneSecondBefore @HOBO @Tulpa

I almost just tried to @ myself too.

@VastleCania here I did it for you

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(Pacific)

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Here are the recipes:

Tomato cup salad gratin (Penguin)

Ingredients

  • 1 can of Ajinomoto sweet corn
  • Cabbage
  • Shiitake mushrooms
  • Tomato
  • Smoked salmon

Steps

  • Cut the tomato in two halves.
  • Scoop out the insides of both halves into a bowl.
  • Put the two halves in a plate.
  • Fill a pot up with water.
  • Boil the cabbage on the stove, and when ready, drain the water through a sieve.
  • Chop the cabbage finely and put it into the bowl.
  • Cut the shiitake mushrooms.
  • Heat the shiitake in a frying pan.
  • Sprinkle salt and pepper atop your mushrooms and put them into your bowl.
  • Put the Ajinomoto sweet corn into the bowl.
  • Cut the smoked salmon into small pieces and put them into your bowl.
  • Squeeze some Ajinomoto mayonnaise into the bowl and mix the ingredients together.
  • Take the mixture in the bowl with a spoon and fill the halves of the tomato with them.
  • Top each cup off with a swirl of Ajinomoto mayonnaise.
  • Cook for 3-4 minutes in a toaster oven.

Curry Sauce

Mix together 100g of Ajinomoto mayonnaise, 25g of butter, and 1/2 a teaspoon of curry powder.

Mayo Omelette (Monkey)

Ingredients

  • Eggs
  • Onion
  • Bell peppers
  • Tomato
  • Potato

Steps

  • Fill a pot up with water.
  • Cut up the potatoes and boil them.
  • When done, drain the water in a sieve.
  • Slice up the onion, bell peppers, and tomato.
  • Put all four vegetables into a frying pan and heat them up.
  • Sprinkle salt and pepper to your liking.
  • When done, move the vegetables to a plate.
  • Crack your egg into a bowl.
  • Add salt and pepper to your liking and pour milk into the bowl. Mix.
  • Cook the egg in a frying pan.
  • Place the vegetables atop the egg in the frying pan.
  • When done, slide the omelette off the frying pan into a plate.
  • Squeeze some Ajinomoto mayonnaise on the omelette.

Almond Sauce

Mix together 100g of Ajinomoto mayonnaise, 25g of almond spice, and 10g of black pepper.

Pineapple Salad (Elephant)

Ingredients

  • Pineapple
  • Green apple
  • Can of Mandarin oranges
  • Kiwi
  • Red apple

Steps

  • Cut the fruits and put them into a bowl.
  • Add Ajinomoto mayonnaise to the bowl and mix.
  • Using the hollowed out half of the pineapple as a plate, scoop the contents of the bowl into the plate.

Parsley Sauce

Mix together 100g of Ajinomoto mayonnaise, half a cup of milk, and half a tablespoon of finely chopped parsley.

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This podcast was probably our funniest one yet, and it almost made me barf!

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it’s out

two people nearly barfed in the creation of this podcast so

cherish it

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Please let me know good I was, everyone. I’m too afraid to listen to it but I bet I was really, really good.

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You were very good and should feel welcome to participate again in the future!

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The way mayo is used in Japanese food is completely alien to me. This game sounds so interesting though. Haven’t got to Battle Jocketpart yet, but that things pretty cool. Kinda surprised it’s in salaryman corner?