Cake Mania - A Fun Game With Stone Age Roots

The mega-popular video game Cake Mania got it's start way back in the Stone Age.

What?

They didn't even know what electricity was in the Stone Age. And I'm told it was really hard to find an electrical outlet to plug in your computer.

Computer?

Sorry, there were no computers in the Stone Age either. And as for games, well there was only one and it was played everyday. It was trying not to be eaten by some big hairy creature while doing whatever it was that people did way back in the Stone Age or SA 0.1 as we like to call it now days.

So what's the connection?

Did you know that Stone Age folks made and ate cake?

Of course their cake wasn't like the delicious cakes and toppings our Cake Mania game hero Jill makes for her customers, but it was a type of cake. OK, it was really more like what we would call a biscuit ---but way back then, it was cake.

Moving forward in time as we look back at the roots of our fun Cake Mania video game, we really must stop for a look at the Pyramids of Egypt. No, I don't think there are mummified ancient Egyptian Pharaohs sitting around in their jammies playing Cake Mania, but those ancient Egyptians did know a thing or two about cake.

Way back in Egypt land, cakes were breads sweetened with honey and sometimes filled with dried fruits and nuts. Now their cakes sound lots more yummy than the ones baked on flat rocks by those Stone Age SA 0.1 types.

But our Cake Mania friend Jill still couldn't serve her customers one of these ancient Egyptian cakes and get away with it. The game would be over, like now.

Moving forward again through time on our quest to discover the real beginnings of our popular cake game, lets stop over for a quick look at Medieval England where those wacky medieval chefs used flour-based ingredients to bake breads that were sweet and passed for cake in it's day.

Still going farther on our journey through time, lets hang a sharp right and head for Greece of long ago where they had two types of cakes. A flat cake and a flat heavy cake.

It seems that the Greeks of long ago may have been the first to recognize the "lite" diet. You could order the flat "lite: cake (hold the honey, fruit and nuts) or you could go all out and order the flat heavy cake with the works. These cakes were probably OK, but you still couldn't serve them in the Cake Mania game.

Now lets head across the Mediterranean and into early Rome where they made something that resembled cheese cake. But this snazzy sounding treat was mostly used as an offering to their Gods.

Taking a peek at medieval European bakery chefs, we quickly notice fruitcakes and gingerbread. But these were also not the kind of cakes you'll find Jill preparing for her customers in our arcade-style Cake Mania game.

As we move forward in time we punch through the clouds and find ourselves in mid-17th century Europe where nice round cakes were topped with a kind of icing made from sugar.

Now we're getting somewhere.

Marching on into the 18th century we find that refined white flour and baking soda have replaced yeast in all the better cakes. But lets push on shall we.

As we soar through time and the clouds begin to vanish once again, we find ourselves in the 20th century where confectioner's sugar, flavorings, butter and cream were being used to prepare tasty cakes.

And with but one more leap forward we return to our current time where we enjoy all manner of delicious cakes with yummy toppings just right for literally any occasion including no occasion at all, just a tasty cake for desert.

So there you have it, proof positive that the popular video game Cake Mania has Stone Age SA 0.1 roots.

Can you imagine our Stone Age friends trying to play a video game?

Sure you can -- It's so easy a cave man can do it!

Have fun