The halcyon days of the beef bowl on your PS2

May sees the impeccably timed launch of a PlayStation 2 game that puts you in charge of a branch of gyudon (beef bowl) chain Yoshinoya. The timing is ironic since given the continuing import ban on US beef, none of the major gyudon chains are actually serving the dish.

The game involves, as you might expect, things like getting customers to their seats, taking their orders, and making sure that the beef, onions and rice come out even. The customers who visit your restaurant are a little snapshot of the times: company presidents struggling against the recession, advanced robots (?), potters (potters?), and so forth. If you run a happy ship, the beef bowls start glowing and your customers start spinning around.

Out on May 27 in Japan, and should cost Y3,990.

[Via Game Watch (Japanese)]