How to play Piece oā Cake online
The game was made for the Atari paddle controller. The emulator switches to paddle mode automatically.
- Move the chef: left and right arrow keys
- Drop a cake layer or a cherry: Space bar
- Start a new game: F12 (the consoleās Reset switch)
- Choose a game variation: F11 (the consoleās Select switch)
- Faster speed-ups: F4 toggles the difficulty switch
- Switch between paddle and joystick mode: Alt + L
Gameplay
The chef walks along the top of the screen while empty platters travel along the conveyor belt below. Move all the way to the left to pick up a cake layer from the oven, then press the button to drop it onto a passing platter. Layers must be stacked from the largest at the bottom to the smallest at the top. The oven gives you layers in random sizes, so if you get one you canāt use, carry it all the way to the right and it goes back to the oven.
A cake only counts once it has a cherry on top. Even a single cherry on an empty platter counts as a finished cake, but a cake without a cherry, or with layers in the wrong order, costs you one of your three ābaking meritsā, shown as lines under the score. Lose all three and the game is over.
- Each layer dropped: 10 points
- Each finished cake: 100 points or more, depending on the variation
- Perfect cake (large, medium and small layer plus a cherry): a bonus that grows as the game goes on. In Game 1 the first two are worth 200 points each and the next three 1,000 points each, and later bonuses reach several thousand.
There are seven variations. Higher numbers run faster and pay bigger bonuses. The belt speeds up as you finish cakes; with the difficulty switch in position A it speeds up even more as your skill improves.
Tips
- Go for perfect cakes early. The bonus is worth far more than the base score, and the belt is still slow at the start.
- A cherry saves a merit. If a platter is about to leave the screen, drop a cherry on it. Even a small cake with a cherry counts.
