Tekken fans pester developer to add a Waffle House stage

Photo: Waffle House (Flickr)

Get acceptable for the adjacent battle… astatine the Waffle House. For a portion now, Tekken fans connected societal media person been pestering Katsuhiro Harada, longtime Tekken producer, to adhd a Waffle House conflict stage. All the posts seemingly got to Harada, who yet asked, “Why?” The resulting thread connected X was a neat spot of American / Japanese taste speech successful which fans explained the heavy lore of the Waffle House franchise and wherefore it’d marque for a fitting summation to the King of the Iron Fist Tournament.

Waffle House is simply a meal diner known for being ever afloat and ever open; it’s the spot you spell astatine 2AM erstwhile you’re drunk and hungry. And due to the fact that it remains unfastened rainfall oregon radiance oregon worse, feeding families and the inebriated alike, it’s developed a spot of a estimation for hosting knock-down, drag-out fights that often spell viral connected societal media. In 1 celebrated clip that’s often utilized arsenic the illustration for wherefore the Waffle House is not a spot for the faint of heart, a Waffle House worker is seen expertly deflecting a seat thrown astatine them by an aggravated patron.

In Harada’s X thread, 1 commenter explained the Waffle House phenomena rather succinctly: “Overworked and underpaid drunk Southerners with connection issues and insomnia devour fried sugary snacks successful a confined abstraction with atrocious lighting and uncomfortable seating attended to by questionable lawsuit work reps with subject people combat skills.”

A Waffle House is bully for 2 things only: eating and fighting. And since Tekken features stages from each implicit the world, corresponding to its characters’ nationalities, a Waffle House would beryllium cleanable to correspond America.

Harada appeared to instrumentality the proposition seriously, responding to the galore posts with enthusiasm grounded successful ineligible realities.

“Thanks for the mentation guys,” he posted. “However, I deliberation you are missing 1 important point. The edifice has some the trademark and the rights to the restaurant, truthful if the edifice chain’s office refuses to judge my proposal, it volition not happen.”

So portion Harada mightiness beryllium successful the process to unafraid support to diagnostic the edifice Anthony Bourdain erstwhile described arsenic “better than The French Laundry,” the likelihood of specified happening is much distant than your accidental of winning a combat against a Waffle House employee.