Cookie

What is Cookie?
Cookie is a cookie-themed shoot'em up developed and published by Ultimate Play the Game. The game was a exclusive game for the ZX Spectrum in 1983. In the game, Charlie the Chef has to bake a cake but his sentient ingredients have escaped causing him to go on a quest to capture them. The game's code was written by Chris Stamper and graphics were done by Tim Stamper (Cookie (video game Wikipedia). The reviews for the game were mixed. The critics praised the graphics and criticized the difficulty similar to Pssst, another Rare game. In Italian markets the game was called Crazy Kitchen and in Croatia Chef, Lo (Cookie (video game Wikipedia).

Gameplay
The game is in a 2D perspective and involves Charlie the Chef baking a cake form evil ingredients. The five ingredients are Mixed Peel, Chunky Chocolate, Crafty Chocolate, Sneaky Sugar and Colonel Custard. They try their best to avoid the player and jump out of the pantry often. The player starts with three lives nd several ingredients fly out simultaneously (Cookie (video game Wikipedia).

Development
A version was planned for 1984, but it was never commercially released. Cookie was also one of the few ZX Spectrum games also available in a ROM format for the use of the Interface 2 allowing instantaneous loading of the game (Cookie (video game Wikipedia).