Reviews

Cookie was one of the first three Ultimate releases, along with Jetpac and Pssst, and, as the others two, tried successfully to be a home version of those old one-screen arcade games that were popular at the time, but with an original concept to it.

In fact, as Pssst, Cookie is a strange kind of shoot'em up, in which you don't destroy waves of aliens one after the other: in fact, you're a cook struggling with some ingredients not very much keen to be thrown into a giant cup, where they will mix up with the ingredient of the next levels. Consequently you don't annihilate what you hit with your bags of flour: you will just bounce it in other directions.

In short, a well programmed and finished off little arcade, although not with a particularly enjoyable gameplay: his brothers Jetpac and Pssst! were more playable. Nonetheless, one of the best of 1983, and a nice, original concept.

Ultimate's third game is basically yet another variation on the first two; Jetpac and Pssst. However, instead of building a rocket or growing a plant, this time you're trying to make a cake.

The problems are twofold; firstly, the ingredients aren't being very co-operative and need to be bashed into the mixing bowl. Secondly there's a creature lurking in the bins, that incidentally bears a resemblance to Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street, trying to foul up the mix by throwing the wrong things into the mix.

It's yet another good 16K game from Ultimate, but they started to show signs that they were somewhat prone to rehashing their previous hits to make a new game. Cookie has enough of an identity of its own to still stand out, but only just.

A simple game of bash the ingredients into the bowl until the cake is baked, Cookie was charming in 1983 and remains so now.

I really had a love/hate relationship with 'Cookie'. I loved every single thing about the game, but boy was it hard!! A couple of years ago I discovered somewhere a simple follow thru routine that gets you past each level easily without the aid of infinite lives. I tried it and it worked.

I completed the game in minutes. At the end I was so happy and at the same time infuriated for 2 decades of repressed frustration, that I shouted my lungs out with the phrase: In your face MF!!
It took away years of therapy from me. Thank you Cookie.

Moving on...

Cookie is a very simple game, very straightforward. Everything happens fast and it gets you hooked quickly. The cute looking characters set the style for almost all Ultimate games with the eyes of the main character being almost a trademark for every game made by this company. It's hard, very frustrating. I bashed my keyboard several times on account of this little game. But it's also lots of fun.

Decidedly not the best game from Ultimate games, but it's nonetheless a great game and classic of the early days.

This early offering from Ultimate is simplicity itself as you try to get the ingredients into the mixing bowl. Not the greatest game in the world, but a pleasant enough distraction.

The last 16K arcade game by Ultimate is very similar to Pssst.

A frenetic game in which you are Charlie the Chef and must push ingredients (Mixed Peel, Colonel Mustard, Chunky Chocolate, ...) into a mixing bowl while avoiding the nasties (Tin Tin Can, Mike the Pike, Wally Washer, ...).

There's an ingredients-needed counter that must reach zero to pass level (5 in total). This counter will grow if you accidentally put a nasty in the bowl and not in the trash bin.

Pure arcade that lives up to the player expectations, the usual Ultimate quality product with top graphics and sounds and funny characters, ideal for a short, casual gaming.