Would You Like to Load Your Last Save File? >Yes. In Part 2 of our video game series, Nicole and Julia resume play in the 1990s, chronicling some of the great restaurant sims of the era. We play some browser-based flash games in the school computer lab instead of doing our math homework, invoke the flaming-eyed wrath of Cooking Mama by failing to separate an egg, and win back our grandparents' bakery from Generic MegaCorp by clicking lots of buttons. Mainly, our goal is to make Papa Louie proud. This episode sponsored by your local Pizza Syndicate, a legitimate business not affiliated with any criminal dealings and/or underground.

Our theme song is “Red Onions” by Louie Zong, off of his album Vegetable Soul: https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/vegetable-soul

We’re on Instagram @girlslunchpod. Nicole's website is nicolehylton.com. Have an episode suggestion or question? You can email us at girlslunchpodcast@gmail.com and we will add it to our chaotic list of future episode subjects.

Links to sources:

• “King’s Candy Crush Saga Hits $20 Billion in Lifetime Revenue,” by Jeffrey Rousseau

• “Food Culture Has Invaded Video Games, and the Results Are Mesmerizing,” by Kat Thompson

• Papa’s Pizzeria website, Flipline Studios

• Delicious Pixels: Food In Video Games, by Agata Waszkiewicz

• Casual Games Market Report (2007), by Casual Games Association

• Venba website, Visai Games