Major League Eating video game announced
A press release announces that Mastiff Games has acquired the rights to make a video game based on Major League Eating.
Major League Eating: The Game features the world’s greatest gurgitory athletes competing across twelve different food types. Built much like a fighting game, MLE: The Game requires players to show brilliant on-screen eating; a mastery of offensive and defensive weapons including burps, belches, and mustard gas; and of course the technical mastery necessary to avoid emptying one’s stomach in a vividly colored reversal of fortune.
ifoce.com has no additional information except for a link in the sidebar to the Mastiff home page. The platforms and expected release date for the game were not announced.
It will be interesting to see how much eaters receive, if any, for use of their electronic likenesses.
update This AFP article reports that Mastiff hopes to release the game in time for the July 4 Nathan’s finals.
Kotaku has a blog entry with 77 comments currently
Japanese article about the game
update #2 ripten has an interview with game developer Bill Swartz He says that eaters will have signature moves (Will the “Baby Bird” be one of them? 😉 ) and evades the question of whether game characters will be based on real world eaters.
update #3 The San Jose Mercury reports that Joey Chestnut will appear in the game.
update #4 SoupyTrumpet produced a demo of the game box (see above)
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Anonymous said
February 7, 2008 @ 7:28 pm
I am going to be the first in line to buy it wen it come.
Anonymous said
February 7, 2008 @ 7:34 pm
How in the world is this game going to work????????????
US MALE said
February 7, 2008 @ 9:33 pm
Can they program this game so I can be Beautiful Brian and go up against Pete?
Philly Guy said
February 7, 2008 @ 10:55 pm
You’re close enough. You can go against Pete whenever you’d like.
Steakbellie said (Registered August 11, 2006)
February 7, 2008 @ 11:45 pm
The good news is that these guys seem to have some Gamecube experience so maybe this game would come out on the Wii.
I laughed for 10 minutes when I saw this post. F’ing brilliant!!! How freaking great is this??? Can you imagine playing the game as Crazy Legs and then getting enough points to unlock Jim Mullens Teeth and then using them to defeat Joey Chestnut in a Steel Cage Hog Dog Show Down????? I want to be Super Paul eating Krystals, I want to be Gravy Brown in a Suit eating HotDogs. I wish I was the full moon shining off a Camaro’s hood.
The Wii would be the perfect platform for this as you could mimic the technique for each food with the controllers. Dunking, Solomon Method, Cheating, there’s room for everyone.
I’m so happy my life turned out like this. I cant wait til tomorrow, I want to know what happens next.
Anonymous said
February 7, 2008 @ 11:53 pm
Pete, you are good. We are here for you. Do not worry others said.
Your big funs.
Badlands Booker said
February 8, 2008 @ 6:49 am
Its coming out for the wii in the spring
Rhonda Evans said
February 8, 2008 @ 7:45 am
This has got to be the best venue to date for capturing interest in and exposing hoards (almost wrote whores) of people to competitive eating.
Carey said
February 8, 2008 @ 8:34 am
I am imagining a whole new wave of Wii accidents from this game. Bruised lips and chipped teeth.
SuperPaul said
February 8, 2008 @ 8:41 am
If I make it in the game, this will definitely help my popularity….mainly because I know I’d be level one, the first guy you have to beat to get to the better eaters!!
They better get the facepaint right!! Can’t wait!!
Philly Guy said
February 8, 2008 @ 9:08 am
Even though its impossible to put all the eaters on the game, it’d be cool if you could make yourself in the create an eater section.
Dr. Bigtime said
February 8, 2008 @ 10:23 am
I hear you, Steakbellie. This is awesome. If I’m included, everyone can have guns like Dr. Bigtime!
Anonymous said
February 8, 2008 @ 11:08 am
If you were included, Mr. Ego, you’d already know about it.
Anonymous said
February 8, 2008 @ 12:30 pm
Mr. Ego! I love it! Although I guess Dr. Ego is probably fair too. He is a real doctor.
Rhonda Evans said
February 8, 2008 @ 12:34 pm
For all we know, perhaps the only two eaters involved are Joey and Pat. After all, when they’re in a contest it usually comes down to who will finish first and second between them. Also, that’s a way for Mastiff Games to cut costs. I certainly hope that’s not the case, however, because that would be damned boring!
beautifulbrian said
February 8, 2008 @ 1:13 pm
They will deliberatly leave me out of the game thinking it will piss me off but i dont really care. They picked a great time to release the game during the same time im releasing my album. Another MLE checkmate on BB.
I said
February 8, 2008 @ 1:24 pm
yes bb they are shadowing you
Anonymous said
February 8, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
SHUT UP!! SHUT UP!!
Brian, you are not a competitive eater and naver have been. That is why you will not be included in the game.
whatever dudes said
February 8, 2008 @ 1:51 pm
I think (as I belive SPBBBKITNCCNHYUHB) suggested, this game would be great if it had a similar design as Mike Tyson’s PunchOut of the ’80’s.
Anonymous said
February 8, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
Will I be able to play as Pete and lose every competition I enter?
Dr. Bigtime said
February 8, 2008 @ 2:49 pm
Probably right. Oh well.
Dr. “Anything But Humble” Bigtime
Philly Guy said
February 8, 2008 @ 3:04 pm
Hate hate hate. Soon enough we’ll hear if you practiced as much as you played that stupid game you could win Nathan’s for real.
Dorothy from NJ said
February 8, 2008 @ 7:27 pm
No philly guy, you will never hear those words because unfortunatly you’re either to dumb or tp lazy to practice anything. Especially that lame stunt for wing bowl, which you some how managed screwed up.
Philly Guy said
February 8, 2008 @ 10:54 pm
Dorothy I feel your pain. If you’d like we can practice spelling and proper usage of two, too, and to.
philly tut aka savage said
February 9, 2008 @ 1:49 am
So wonderful to meet/see so many of you fools again. I was truly honored that CL and Badlands remembered me for the second most amazing reversal at Wing Bowl 14. Also honored to eat bellow many of the greatest eaters of all time. Hope to see/attempt to be in your stratosphere again soon.
Sav “Tut”age
GOD OF ABRAHAM said
February 9, 2008 @ 2:23 am
IF DON MOSES LERMAN IS NOT A PART OF THIS GAME THEN I REFUSE TO PLAY IT PERIOD! AND THATZ FOUR THE RECORD
Anonymous said
February 9, 2008 @ 4:37 am
and what are the people getting pay for this ???????
what ? not a thing ? lawsuit city
Anonymous said
February 9, 2008 @ 12:10 pm
DONMOSESLERMAN is the greatest competitive eater of all time and HIS name should be at the summit of the competitive eating game mountain. He has defeated Koby, Cookie, Booker, Sonya, Joey, Wingador, the great Brian Seiken, and Bertoletti many, many times. What more does he have to prove???
Anonymous said
February 10, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
DONMOSESLERMAN’s picture should be featured on the box. Everybody knows he created competitive eating.
Anonymous said
February 11, 2008 @ 2:27 pm
Whoever’s on the box cover suffers the curse.
anonymous said
February 11, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
the curse of being a competitive eater?
Steakbellie said (Registered August 11, 2006)
February 11, 2008 @ 2:44 pm
I am willing to carry that burden for the other eaters. It will be my Albatross.
Anonymous said
February 11, 2008 @ 3:00 pm
It could mean torn knee ligaments. Are you sure, Steakbellie? Think this through.
Steakbellie said (Registered August 11, 2006)
February 11, 2008 @ 5:27 pm
I’m typically up against half of the top 10 in any contest I get into, so if the Curse effects my eating, I dont think anybody would notice. But Torn Knee Ligaments??? Gosh, any of you that have seen me in my Game-Kilt know that I have great legs. Not sure if I want to risk a nasty scar on my gams…..
Anonymous said
February 11, 2008 @ 6:06 pm
On the other hand, it could be something as simple as a sprain. Just depends.
SuperPaul said
February 11, 2008 @ 6:40 pm
I, too, volunteer to be cursed at – and as an outside salesman, practice this often.