Merry Cook by Elektronika

Details Title: Merry Cook ( Веселый повар ) Manufacturer: Elektronika ( Электроника ) Series: Microprocessor Game ( Игра Микропроцессорная ) Model No: IM-04 Screen: Liquid Crystal Display ( LCD ) Chipset: KB1013VK1-2 ( 32.768 kHz ) Release Date: 1989 Description Merry Cook is a portable electronic game released by the Soviet electronics manufacturer Elektronika in 1989. Gameplay The merry cook must keep food from falling to the kitchen floor by constantly tossing them into the air using his frying pan. When the cook places his frying pan below a food item just before it hits the floor it's automatically tossed upwards. Each food item tossed upwards will reach different heights before falling back down again. Sometimes a cat comes out and grabs an item of food and holds onto it for a little while before releasing it. In Game A, the cook must keep three food items in the air. In Game B, there is a total of four items to to deal with. A miss is scored when a item of food hits the floor. Score three misses and the game is over. Any misses scored is cleared when reaching 200 and 500 points. Trivia Merry Cook is a clone of Nintendo's Chef Game & Watch handheld electronic game, featuring the exact same gameplay, but using the KB1013VK1-2 4-bit microprocessor, a Soviet clone of the Sharp SM-5A microprocessor used by Nintendo.