Despite its descriptive title, its forgiving nature (getting a piece of cake close to the plate is close enough), and its cutesy gameplay, Piece o' Cake is anything but a cakewalk. Using the paddle controller, players guide a chef across the top of the playfield, dropping pieces of cake down to a plate moving that is moving by on a conveyor belt that moves faster and faster as the game progresses. Pieces must be stacked from largest on bottom to smallest on top, and a cake without a cherry topping things off will be considered incomplete. The chef looks like he was formed from LEGO toys (this is a good thing), but the rest of the screen is bland, and the sound effects consist of annoyingly repetitive bleeps and bloops. The action is sufficiently challenging, and this is a nice little premise for a game, but it should've been expanded upon. There's never more than one plate on the screen, there's just one conveyor belt, and the simple objective gets tiresome after repeated play.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
U.S. Games
eBay Product ID (ePID)
56236470
Product Key Features
Genre
Action & Adventure
Platform
Atari 2600
Game Name
Piece O' Cake
Additional Product Features
Release Year
1982
Number of Players
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
USA
LeafCats
139973
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