Teddy Tavern: A Culinary Adventure is a fast-paced culinary adventure that requires you to please customers by quickly serving them with tricky dish combinations. In this game which is a mix of a strategy and an action, you'll unlock five challenging destinations, meet six different types of clients, cook 25 dishes and earn multiple power-ups. System requirements: Win 98,2000, ME, XP, Pentium 750MHz, 512MB RAM, DirectX 7.0
Time to review the most dynamic and crazy-paced games that make your brain and fingers work. We're talking about arcade games. Compared to puzzles and strategies, arcade games have not seen such a great boom in 2006. Just like a year ago, in the latest Luxor you would create color matches of multicolored balls and smash them. Yet game graphics, ingame physics have seen tremendous changes. So, why not gazing at the best of arcades and seeing what was new about these games in 2006?
Season's surprises are snowing in: on December 25th Alawar games finally released Magic Ball 3. This pirate arcade stands out among other sequels to popular games that have seen the world at the end of expiring year. It features stunning 3D graphics, more than 80 challenging levels, lots of power-ups and other improvements. The main point of the game is to smash multiple on-screen items using a paddle and a ball. System requirements: P-III 1000 Mhz or equivalent processor, 64 MB VRAM, DirectX - compatible video card, Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, DirectX 8 or higher.
In terms of so-called micromanagement, or restaurant games, 2006 was even more fruitful. Many developers produced a number of diner-dash-like titles based on the same scheme: they created new graphics and characters, while game play basics remained untouched. A title character (yep, that's a rare type of casual games with a live character!) is to accept and fulfill customers' orders to make customers happy at a time limit.
Chicken Invaders 3 Christmas Edition is a long-expected sequel to the Anti-chicken arcade odyssey. The point of the game is to fight intergalacitc chickens who intend to invade the Earth and Solar System. So, the game play basics is the same as that of the previous versions. But the game is really enhanced with multiple bonuses (hamburgers falling from the sky above on your head, chicken acrobatics and amazing video-effects. System Requirements: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP, PentiumII 450 MHz, 64MB RAM, DirectX v7.0