Personally, I think there was a lot of charm to the idea of burgers and cola. I wish they had returned in later games. Particularly in PSII, where the people are supposed to have gotten lazy and dependent on their computers. Those folks would have been a prime fast food market!
I wouldn't replace the 'mates and 'dews with them, but adding different kinds of burgers and colas alongside those might have provided some nice variety to the healing items. Even shortcake got to return several times.
Though I have to wonder... if PSI had condiments, who would prepare the burgers? Odin? Lutz? I bet Hapsby would make the best ones.
Aeroprism wrote:Never liked the idea. Silly, unwanted and pointless American translation that implied that North American gamers were too dumb to cope with imaginative terms.
I don't think that was the point at all. 1987 was a very different kind of gaming market. The target audience of the localization was children, so the team used terms that would be familiar to kids who had never played an RPG or fantasy game before this one. That doesn't mean they thought gamers were stupid, they just wanted to make it easier to adjust to a new kind of gaming experience. It's not like every made up word was stripped from the game, after all.