Cooking Mama may have a rival made by Activision. The publisher recently trademarked Math Papa and Science Papa for use with things like “video game programs; computer game cartridges”.

Or rather, Cooking Mama did, and apparently she’s all-too familiar with ol’ Papa. And in fact, she’s really not surprised at all that he would try to encroach on her turf.

Let’s address the genetically-engineered pachyderm in Activision’s Science Papa lab right off the bat: If you’ve played Majesco’s Cooking Mama, you’ve basically played Science Papa, even ...

Poor Papa. Meanwhile, Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic! is a Nintendo 3DS game and has new features like using the 3DS gyroscope to crack eggs, flip pans and balance plates.

When we started working on a post about some new characters in Cooking Mama 2, we saved the image seen to the right of a salaryman called, of course, Papa. When we reloaded the Dengeki page, Papa was ...