When I was around 7 or 8, I found Cooking Mama on my younger cousin’s Nintendo DS. Naturally, I wanted to play it too. So when I got home, I searched “cooking mama” on Google and played it on some sketchy flash website—probably Y8.
And I was not ready.
You pluck the feathers off a turkey. You remove its organs. You make this barf-colored stuffing and then—just to top it all off—you behead the thing. It was graphic. It was gross. My 8-year-old brain had no idea what the hell was going on. I thought this was just how the game was.
Fast forward to today. Still curious, still nostalgic, I download a DS emulator and play the actual Cooking Mama. It’s… wholesome. It’s cheerful. Mama is smiling and supportive. She’s not looking at me like she wants to stab me with a cleaver. Where’s the horrifying turkey? Where’s the blood?
One Google search later, I finally learned the truth: I had been playing PETA’s parody game, Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals, this whole damn time.
Apparently, they made a bunch of these. So yeah. Thanks for the childhood trauma, PETA.
TL;DR: I played PETA’s Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals on a flash site when I was 8, thought it was the real game, and just discovered it wasn’t. Cooking Mama is wholesome. I’ve been emotionally scarred for no reason.
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i am so sorry but i died laughing
Well you’re not wrong the game is meant to show the horror of cooking animals.
That’s so real, me and my sister played that at my grandparents house when we were way too young.