Video game food… It helps us rack up points and extends our playing time. But the thing about those digital foodstuffs — since there’s no video game FDA to speak of — we have no idea what we’re putting into our little pixelated bodies.
Complex Gaming has put together a handy guide — The Nutritional Guide To Popular Food In Video Games. From power pellets to magical mushrooms, we can finally get some nutritional peace of mind, while we consume pork rinds and energy drinks from our gaming chairs.
The Atari 2600 Cake was created by New Jersey-based Pink Cake Box for a fortieth birthday party. The red velvet cake was complete with game console, two joysticks, and Pac-Man and Vanguard cassettes.
And, if you’re too young to know what a joystick is, then I won’t bother explaining how kids were once entertained by video games that required the use of one button. Or, how totally awesome Pitfall was. Awesome cake though.
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Stop-motion and too much free time is at it again. Seen here in a montage of video games made entirely of gummy bears.
Warning: Many gelatinous animals were harmed during the making of this film.
People Food, Eco-Comics, and Svelte Spuds… It’s Foodiggity’s Best of The Week.
The greatest thing since sliced bread… Behold The Loaf Dog
Poor Cap’n… The Last Breakfast
It’s People!!!… Soylent Green Is People Magazine
Eco-Comic… Plantable Comic Book That Will Grow Herbs
Spaghetti-No’s… Pac-Man Pasta
Cutting carbs… Mr. Potato Head Is Now Thinner, Wears Pants
During most of the 80’s, Pac-Man was omnipresent. Not only could the circular yellow pellet-eater be found in every arcade — remember those? — but product tie-ins to the video game had spiraled out of control. Evidenced by the unfortunate existence of Pac-Man Pasta.
