(semi off-topic) A giant Pac-Man mosaic was created by AC Milan fans holding up colored cards in yesterday's Champions League match versus Barcelona. The mosaic was captioned "Mangiamoli!" ("Let's eat them!") and the ghost Pac-Man was chasing had Barcelona colors.
Pixiusoft has a hot dog eating contest game app for the iPhone / iPad which is now free.
Naader Reda has produced a video of him and Matt Cohen attempting the 30 inch pizza challenge at Luigi's in San Diego while dressed as characters from the Super Mario Brothers video games.
The Wii game based on Major League Eating appears in OCWeeklys top 10 list of videogames based on food.
Mickey Duzyj has produced "A Patriot's Guide to the Hot Dog Eating Contest" with graphics inspired by the 1980s video game Mike Tyson's Punch Out.
A competitive eating game iPhone / iPod app is available at http://hotdogwars.kooapps.com/
In honor or 420 day, the blog for G4 TV has a list of the top five food-related video games.
Appstruck has a review of the iPhone game iChowdown, in which players feed "Mr. Dumb" items from a $5 all you can eat buffet.
Rosco has set up an online quiz game on the nicknames of the current IFOCE top 50.
A competitive eating game called Get In My Belly has been released for the IPhone & IPod Touch.
A free competitive eating game called Hot Dog Eater is available for IPhone / IPod users.
Nobuyuki "the Giant" Shirota has a blog entry about the Japanese version of the Major League Eating game, which is now mentioned on nintendo.co.jp
The video game Rhythm Heaven has a competitive eating mini-game
Web page for Japanese MLE Game
A web page has been set up for the Japanese version of the Major League Eating video game at http://www.mlegame.com/japan/ The list of characters confirms that Rich LeFevre and Juliet Lee have been replaced by Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota and Hatsuyo “The Witch” Sugawara. The foods will remain the same, with Nathan’s hot dogs and Krystal burgers as two of the available items. The game will be released tomorrow.
Japanese MLE Wii game to be released March 24
Famitsu.com reports that the Japanese version of the Major League Eating video game for the Nintendo Wii will be released on March 24 and the price will be 900 yen. Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota and Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara are the new characters, apparently replacing Rich LeFevre and Juliet Lee. The game was first announced in August and the original release date was October 14, 2008.
Guide to unlocking MLE video game characters
VGF.com has a guide on how characters in the Major League Eating video game become available.
E:60 reporter roundtable extended version
The video clip of the roundtable meeting of E:60 reporters and producers on ESPN.com is considerably longer (8:37) than the segment that was televised. The meeting consists mainly of a discussion on whether competitive eating is a sport. Jeremey Schaap cites competitive eating on the Versus network (which has never televised eating contests, as far as I am aware) as evidence of its popularity. He also says he has never seen such passion as he saw at last month’s cannoli contest and was genuinely moved by Brad Sciullo’s crying at the end of that competition.
Japanese MLE game delayed
According to the comments in an R Suzuki blog entry, the Japanese version of the Major League Eating Wiiware game was not released on the announced date of October 14 and no official new release date has been made public. The game does not appear in the list of Japanese WiiWare titles on Wikipedia.
Link Buffet: September 26, 2008
- Ex-”Monster Garage” star Jesse James (Sanda Bullock’s husband) won a pie-eating contest at the Tennessee Valley Fair. The contest might be seen on James’ Spike TV show
- More on the Japanese version of the MLE video game
- Phillip Jones, who cancelled the University of Iowa 2007 corn eating contest, is fired
- The Bottle Inn, host of the nettle eating championship, will close but its contest might outlast it
- Minnesota State cheese stick eating contest
- $50/hour available for a woman willing to vomit on camera during an eating contest
- Hot dogs at the Philadelphia Phillies ballpark are responsible for a bomb scare The packages of hot dogs were detonated.
Japanese MLE Game to have new characters
A press release announces the Japanese launch of the Major League Eating Wiiware video game which will be available on October 14. Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota and Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara have been added to the game, apparently replacing Rich LeFevre and Juliet Lee.
update TokyoMango has an English blog entry about the release
Link Buffet: August 9, 2008
- Roger Robinson finishes Sasquatch burger challenge 3 times in less than 2 months
- NYC falafel eating contest returns August 31
- Louisville, KY cheesesteak eating contest August 31
- MLE video game ranked at #14 in top WiiWare games
- Guinness World Record attempt hot dog eating contest in Reno today
Link Buffet: August 4, 2008
- Another review of the MLE video game
- Article mentioning Samantha Brown’s participation in the Italian sausage eating contest
- Ravioli contest in Providence Saturday
- A Taste of Hamburg (PA) eating contest August 30
- A possible European contest for “Furious” Pete: Pourcailhade La Fête du Cochon (PigFest) in Trie-sur-Baïse, France will have a boudin sausage eating contest on August 10
MLE video game secret “boss” character
A possible spoiler about the identity of the final “boss” character in the Major League Eating video game is available after the jump:
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Link Buffet: August 1, 2008
- Myspace page for Billy “the Fridge”, winner of Saturday’s donut contest in Seattle
- Forest City, PA pierogi eating contest Saturday
- A more positive review of the MLE video game
- Long blog entry about the Singapore contest
- Bodybuilder / competitive eater Isabelle Turell wins a bodybuilding contest and gets engaged
Link Buffet: July 31, 2008
- Blog entry with a lot of pictures from the Singapore showdown
- IGN pans MLE video game
- Elgin, Iowa corn contest August 2, $100 first prize
- Cincinnati jalapeno cheese coney contest Wednesday, registration closes at midnight
- Skinnyboy reports that Anthony Bourdain’s appearance at the Big Texan will be televised on the Travel Channel on August 4
- Medina, Ohio hot dog contest Saturday
- List of all Queens dumpling winners
- Syracuse offensive lineman Ryan Durand challenges Big East clambake lobster record
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