South Park: Chef's Luv Shack Nintendo 64

"Well hello, children It's me, Chef My sweet swimsuit models have left the building and my show needs some contestants Now I know what you are thinking, but it's not like I don't have something worth your trouble. First prize will be 12 Can you just imagine how many ~Cheesy Poofs and ~Zippo Cola that will buy? So what do you say, Cartman, Stan, Kenny and Kyle? Are you ready to play some games?"

The second South Park cartridge released on the Nintendo 64 is a game show patterned after the You Don't Know Jack series by Berkeley Systems. The game offers a series of questions that are aimed to test your knowledge of pop culture while at the same time trying to tickle your funny bone. Up to four players can compete at once for the right to answer these questions and participate in an assortment of mini-games, many of which are based on classic coin-ops of the 1980s.

Each contest consists of two, four, six or eight rounds with three trivia questions forming one round. The questions will fall under one of three different categories, and each question has four possible answers listed in a multiple-choice format. As one of the contestants, it's your job to hit the buzzer if you think you know the answer. Successfully chime in and you have ten seconds to respond with the correct answer or else the other players will get a chance to buzz in. The player who answers correctly will receive a certain amount of points, while the person who misses the answer will lose the same number of points.

Players can also use what is referred to as a "shaft" to stick a particularly puzzling question to another contestant. By doing this, the player who has been shafted is forced to either answer the question or shaft another available player. The catch is that if this person gets the answer right, he or she will receive double the points If the question is missed, however, the player will lose double the points. Besides answering questions and shafting their friends, players will be able to witness a number of "specials" during the game.

Lurking behind some of the categories are Special Situations. These random elements involve the following four areas: The Wheel of Fortuitousness (spin it 'round to earn 1,000 bonus points, a trip to jail or other random events), Pressure Rounds (answer ten true or false questions within 30 seconds), Double Down (bet on whether you'll answer the question correctly), and Game Time. The latter event means the lucky player or players can compete in one of twenty mini-games

Games include Asses in Space, where the object is to shoot down, er, asses in space; Avalanche, where the boys must ski down a slope as an avalanche chases them down the mountain; Beefcake, which involves Cartman catching cans of ~Weight Gain 4000; Bees at the Picnic, a shooting game that has the kids guarding their picnic site while swarms of bees hover in the air; Bad Kitty, a game similar to Donkey Kong in that you must climb ladders (as the kitty) and jump over Cartman's bouncing rubber balls.

Other games include Chicken Lover, a target shooting game that has you gunning for the poultry paramour as he emerges from the bushes; Eat This, which has the kids stuffing their faces in a pie-eating contest; Frog Toss, a game patterned after ~Mr. Mouth or ~Tiddly Winks but with frogs instead of chips; Parachute, where you guide your character through the air in order to land on a target; and Pizza Patrol, a ~Paperboy-inspired game that has you delivering pizzas to houses from your ~Big Wheel.

As with the previous South Park game on the system, South Park: Chef's Love Shack earns a "Mature" rating for Comic Mischief and Mature Sexual Themes. It also offers authentic voice clips from Matt Stone, Trey Parker and Isaac Hayes ~ Scott Alan Marriott, All Game Guide