Major League Eating Game Debuts Today

Posted by Baylen on May. 20, 2008

Major League Eating: The Game launches today for WiiWare–the new downloadable Wii service. To celebrate, from 12-3p this afternoon the Nintendo World Store in Manhattan is holding simultaneous real and virtual watermelon-eating competitions.

Tim “Eater X” Janus, the newly crowned Sushi eating champion of the world, a man who hides his inner torment behind a mask, will compete against Crazy Legs Conti. Conti, often described as the “Evil Knievel of the Alimentary Canal,” is known for eating his way out of a 96-cubic foot sarcophagus of popcorn at the debut of his own movie, Zen and The Art of Competitive Eating.

This bare knuckled, drag out, in-you-face (literally) six minute exercise in extreme watermelon consumption is near certain to yield a new world record. It will also be the first watermelon eating contest to feature both real and virtual watermelons.

As the screen capture indicates, virtual gamers can indeed lose their lunch.

Game site here. Joystiq has gamer analysis here. Serious Eats has the game trailer here.

Major League Eating (the sport, not the game) site here.

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