Cooking Mama comes to the iPhone

As I brew up my own real life version of the above and prepare for the day, my morning scroll through the App Store has alerted me to the fact that Taito has just brought its much-beloved culinary mini-game collection Cooking Mama to the iPhone.

A quick run through has shown that at first glance it's every bit as well played with a finger as with a stylus -- I managed to prepare a silver medal shrimp gyoza plate that was going wonderfully until I oversteamed them at the end.

The move comes just a few days after Taito made the jump to the platform with an emulated version of the original arcade Space Invaders [App Store], and, as with that, Cooking Mama comes at a premium price ($6.99 here, $4.99 for Invaders) -- I haven't decided yet if that's a console game maker's naivete of the tooth-and-nail App Store economy, or well-deserved confidence in the name-brand power of its franchises.

Cooking Mama [Majesco's Wii/DS home, App Store link]

Previously:
Mama in the garden - Offworld