games you can play while eating a cheese pizza
title says it all really. any video game you could reasonably play while also trying to eat a big hot cheese pizza.
title does not necessarily imply games that can be played one-handed - if you can make a reasonable argument for how the game could be competently played two-handed while also maintaining a reasonable rate of pizza consumption, please do make your case here!
i have also decided to employ a ranking system here, whereby rank is proportionate to enjoyment of simultaneous pizza consumption and game consumption. the higher the rank, the more likely you will be to enjoy yourself while eating a cheese pizza and playing said game. when suggesting a game, please consider where you feel that your chosen game would rank on the grid below.
title does not necessarily imply games that can be played one-handed - if you can make a reasonable argument for how the game could be competently played two-handed while also maintaining a reasonable rate of pizza consumption, please do make your case here!
i have also decided to employ a ranking system here, whereby rank is proportionate to enjoyment of simultaneous pizza consumption and game consumption. the higher the rank, the more likely you will be to enjoy yourself while eating a cheese pizza and playing said game. when suggesting a game, please consider where you feel that your chosen game would rank on the grid below.
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similar to super mario run, littlewood is also capable of being played with one hand and is not so mechanically intense that you will be distracted away from your pizza
that being said it would probably be on the lower-middle end. eating pizza is merely possible due to the game's design, but i wouldn't say it's among the greats of pizza games
@gyoza this list is about eating a cheese pizza while playing a video game
You can play as a cheese pizza while eating a cheese pizza in Pac-Man!
Using the Nintendo Switch's button remapping features, many games can be reasonably played (with some caveats) using a single Joy-Con. the easiest examples are most of the games on NES Switch Online, where ZL/ZR and L/R can be mapped to A and B depending on your preferences, but games like Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 and Downwell are also perfectly playable this way.
Super Mario Odyssey is also a surprising example of this - you could map A/B (jumping) to L/R, L/R (camera reset) to the d-pad buttons, use motion controls for Cappy and be almost completely unimpaired.
...with that logic, though, I'd honestly make the claim that a vast majority of games, especially on PC, are pizza friendly. I played a lot of 2D platformers on keyboard when I broke my dominant arm as a kid - I'd mapped up/down/left/right to RFDG and used space and Z as my primary and secondary buttons. It was actually surprisingly doable!
Using the Nintendo Switch's button remapping features, many games can be reasonably played (with some caveats) using a single Joy-Con. the easiest examples are most of the games on NES Switch Online, where ZL/ZR and L/R can be mapped to A and B depending on your preferences, but games like Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 and Downwell are also perfectly playable this way.
Super Mario Odyssey is also a surprising example of this - you could map A/B (jumping) to L/R, L/R (camera reset) to the d-pad buttons, use motion controls for Cappy and be almost completely unimpaired.
...with that logic, though, I'd honestly make the claim that a vast majority of games, especially on PC, are pizza friendly. I played a lot of 2D platformers on keyboard when I broke my dominant arm as a kid - I'd mapped up/down/left/right to RFDG and used space and Z as my primary and secondary buttons. It was actually surprisingly doable!
i just realized that by giving out my keyboard mappings i implicitly gave away which side my dominant arm is
EarthBound/Mother 2 can be played entirely with the left hand (L button + Select button + D-pad) , so I'd say it's possible to eat a slice in the right.
PLEASE adhere to the list policy of suggesting a ranking of your video game vis a vis pizza consumption, we dont want this descending into anarchy
I would make an argument for Doom, at least in the olden days where the most common way of moving was tank-style with the arrow keys and shooting was mapped to the control keys. Provided it's right control, the most action-heavy buttons could be accessed with one hand pretty easily
It's probably a really low ranker tho
I feel like the Wii version of Skyward Sword gives you PLENTY of time to eat pizza during its copious start n stops. Perhaps somewhere in the middle of the ranking
Oh, in that case, I'd argue somewhere in the top 5-7... On one hand, I have actual visual evidence of such an event occurring ( https://youtu.be/bkX1o81KEkU?t=25 ) which might place it high based on the amazing footage alone! But I can see somebody potentially getting so engrossed in the game (particularly the more climactic/emotional parts) that they'd forget about the slice in their hand, letting it go cold and uneaten... I'd say it's best for those periods when you have to grind, or navigating a particularly maze like area or dungeon, which there are plenty of!
Oh right, Pokémon Let's Go! That's only playable with one-handed controls if you're playing it docked. Considering that it's a turn-based RPG with input methods designed for one-handed play, I'd imagine it'd rank fairly high on the cheese pizza tierlist.
Dota 2
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neo turf masters can reasonably be played with one hand while enjoying a delicious cheese pizza
i would place it high up there
also some matchups in samurai shodown v special are known to be played using only one hand (thus allowing for pizza consumption), but given that these are so few in number it must be dead last here
also some matchups in samurai shodown v special are known to be played using only one hand (thus allowing for pizza consumption), but given that these are so few in number it must be dead last here
what happens if i attempt to play these games while eating a pepperoni pizza, is that still possible?
You could probably play Seaman with pizza in one hand pretty easily. You're very rarely going to have to be pressing more than one button at once, with most of what you do being talking, and there's long stretches where you have to wait for seaman to want to talk to you, providing ample time to eat in peace. Only issue would be spitting pizza on the mic, I suppose, but that could probably be prevented fairly easily. Point is, it'd probably be one of the easiest.
You could probably play Seaman with pizza in one hand pretty easily. You're very rarely going to have to be pressing more than one button at once, with most of what you do being talking, and there's long stretches where you have to wait for seaman to want to talk to you, providing ample time to eat in peace. Only issue would be spitting pizza on the mic, I suppose, but that could probably be prevented fairly easily. Point is, it'd probably be one of the easiest.
HEY i just want to make it clear that i have been an avowed Skyward Sword Liker for TEN YEARS
perhaps animal crossing new horizons? while clicking through menus and fishing?
sw/sh has a one handed mode apparently
x-com (ufo defense, but the newer ones, too)
planescape: torment
slay the spire
princess maker 2
hmmm i think tonight is pizza night
planescape: torment
slay the spire
princess maker 2
hmmm i think tonight is pizza night
transistor is practically DESIGNED for pizza consumption, even having a short cutscene in which the main character gets a free pizza and chills out to eat it for a bit. the gameplay is real-time but lets you freeze time to plan out moves too, but a clever player could use those time freezes to instead eat some pizza! it's almost as if supergiant made the game particularly with pizza fans in mind.
Super hexagon, the only controls are left, right, and the button to start and respond, it also has music so you can jam out while enjoying a nice slice of pizza
Bravely Default, which lets you play the game entirely with just dpad, analog stick and ZL button
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