Siliconera: Who would have guessed Cooking Mama would grow into a hit franchise and span games that had nothing do with cooking? Majesco that's who and they're banking heavily on a Mama series.
Gardening Mama, Pet Shop Mama, and today according to a US registered trademark, Babysitting Mama. I think the title is self explanatory. Unlike the Pet Shop Mama trademark Babysitting Mama was directly registered by Cooking Mama LTD and all of their trademarks matriculated into retail products. And, no joke, there is a Cooking Mama corporation too.
Cooking Mama: Cookstar is a charming passion project from a dev team that clearly cares about the franchise.
Last week, a new Cooking Mama game was released for Nintendo Switch. The only problem is that it got un-released shortly afterwards.
Yeah some big name in the homebrew scene looked at it and it was having high resource usage and some network traffic indicating it most likely does have a miner in it.
As sh***y as that is, I also find that amazing.
"so guys, we're gonna port Cooking Mama to the Switch, but at the same time, we're gonna build in a crypto miner for 'reasons'.
Some dude in the back" uh, what?"
" your services are no longer required. you're excused "
I saw something about that and assumed it was an April Fool's joke, but... no.
From what I've read we don't yet have absolute proof this is what's happened, but the accusations are there and we're yet to see what the investigation will bring up. What a weird world we live in if it turns out to be true.
"There's a new Cooking Mama game coming and as well as a vegetarian mode, it's also bringing with it... blockchain technology?
We've tried to break down what that actually means and whether it's just meaningless jargon"
No one laugh, but my mom loves the mama games. She loves to cook, so Cooking Mama was right for her. She likes the ones on DS. Funny thing she also babysits so babysitting mama ... damn my mom will become a Nintendo fanmom.