Chef

This article is about the Game & Watch game. For a list of chefs in the Super Mario franchise, see Category:Chefs.

Game & Watch Gallery 4's Classic version (left) and the Modern version's first scene (right) of Chef

Chef is a Game & Watch game released as part of the Wide Screen series on September 8, 1981. It appears as one of the games in the Gallery Corner in Game & Watch Gallery. It is also a minigame in Game & Watch Gallery 2 and Game & Watch Gallery 4, both of which include an updated "Modern" version of the game.

Gameplay

Classic version

The Classic version of Chef from Game & Watch Gallery 2

A chef paces back and forth in a kitchen, using his frying pan to keep pieces of food airborne. The player earns a point every time a piece of food hits the pan. If a piece of food ends up on the floor, the rat-thief grabs it and eats it, resulting in a miss. The cat at the left-hand side of the screen occasionally grabs the leftmost piece of food with a fork, only to keep it from falling to the ground. It is also the origin of Mr. Game & Watch's standard move in the Super Smash Bros. series. As the game progresses, the food moves faster. At 200 and 500 points, any misses the player has are erased. When the player gets three misses, they receive a Game Over. In Game A, the player must flip three pieces of food. In Game B, the player must flip four pieces of food.

Modern version

The Modern version of Chef from Game & Watch Gallery 2

Princess Peach, who is holding a pan, has to feed Yoshi by cooking the food Mario and Luigi throw into the air. If the food gets crispy, Peach may have to feed it to Yoshi; feeding Yoshi gains a few extra points, but if he eats any burnt food, he changes into a Little Yoshi. After Yoshi eats five pieces of cooked food in a row, he lays an egg, giving the player five points; after five more pieces of cooked food in a row are served to Yoshi, his egg hatches into a Little Yoshi, rewarding the player with 20 points. The Little Yoshi grows back up with five more cooked feedings in a row, giving the player five points. If Yoshi eats any burnt food after he has laid an egg, the egg disappears. If any piece of food goes on the floor, Peach throws a fit. On Easy Mode, only Luigi throws the food, and it goes straight up when it hits Peach's pan. On Hard Mode, both Mario Bros. throw the food, and it frequently flies off in angles when it hits her pan. At 200, 500, and 700 points, one of the Mario Bros. tosses a heart for Peach or Yoshi to catch to remove a miss. Music is also featured in this version, with the tempo changing depending on the speed of the game.

The food includes the following:

Name	Flips required to cook	Game & Watch Gallery 2?	Game & Watch Gallery 4?
Fried egg	3	Yes	Yes
Steak	5	Yes	Yes
Sausage	4	Yes	No
Fish	4	Yes	Yes
Leg of lamb	5	Yes	No
Lobster	5	No	Yes
Bell pepper	4	No	Yes

The Modern version of Chef from Game & Watch Gallery 4 (the second scene)

The Modern version of Chef is remade in Game & Watch Gallery 4 for the Game Boy Advance. Changes from the Game Boy Color version of the previous Modern Chef are as follows:

• Due to the GBA's graphical capabilities, the sprites of Peach, Yoshi, and the Mario Bros. are now more consistent with the characters' official color schemes. Also, the Yoshi Egg, which was pink in the original game, has its color changed to green.
• The kitchen is given a makeover: The windows are given gold curtains; the brickwork on the wall changes color from blue to gold; the countertop is missing the plates from the original; the base of the counter becomes gold and no longer looks like a cupboard, as it did originally; the floor, formerly brown, has its tiles recolored yellow and green; and the countertop, walls, and floor all have light from the wall sconces reflecting off them.
• The previous Modern version used eggs, fish, steaks, legs of lamb, and sausages as the flippable food. Game & Watch Gallery 4's Modern Chef uses bell peppers and lobsters as well, but legs of lamb and sausages are no longer used there.
• The background now changes with every 200 points the player racks up in-game. Peach starts off in the original kitchen, but after 200 points, the background blurs and then changes into what looks like the princess's castle garden. After 200 more points are earned, the background changes back, and the pattern continues.
• The background music cue has its percussion enhanced for the GBA, as is the case in all other Game & Watch Gallery series Modern games ported to Game & Watch Gallery 4.
• Peach's exact reaction to when food falls to the floor and getting a miss has been altered: She now screams repeatedly before wincing, whereas originally, she proceeded to repeatedly stamp her foot on the ground in a fit of anger.
• Like with the other Game & Watch games included in the game, selecting Chef and waiting to actually start the game has a humorous sequence play. In particular, Peach is standing next to Mario, who is sitting at a table and waiting to be fed. She then flips two eggs to Mario, who eats them one by one, but then 14 more eggs fall down, and Peach ends up flipping them all over the table, with the quantity being such that Mario ends up buried underneath and overwhelmed. Afterwards, Yoshi comes in, eats all the eggs, and takes Mario away.

Controls

Game & Watch Gallery 2

Classic version

• (left and right): Move
• : Move left
• : Move right

Modern version

• (left and right): Move
• and : Spin

Game & Watch Gallery 4

Classic version

• : Move
• : Move left
• : Move right

Modern version

• : Move
• and : Rotate

Gallery

Modern version

Game & Watch Gallery 2

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  Fish

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  Fried egg

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  Leg of lamb

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  Sausage

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  Steak

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  Yoshi Egg

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  Little Yoshi

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  1 UP Heart

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  Luigi

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  Mario

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  Peach

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  Yoshi

Game & Watch Gallery 4

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  Baby Yoshi

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  1 UP Heart

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  Bell pepper

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  Fish

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  Fried egg

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  Lobster

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  Luigi

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  Mario

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  Peach

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  Steak

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  Yoshi Egg

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  Yoshi

External links

• Chef info page on In the Attic, a website dedicated to classic videogames (Internet Archive: Wayback Machine)