5-Star is a platformer game for the Nintendo Entertainment System where players control Yongbok, a food delivery worker for a self-proclaimed 5-star restaurant. Players navigate various locations to deliver boxes while avoiding mischievous creatures such as cats and birds that attempt to steal the food. Successful deliveries yield higher tips, contributing to the player’s overall score and the restaurant's rating, which decreases with lost boxes.
Yongbok works delivering food for the 5-STAR Restaurant (which his boss says it’s a 5-star Michelin even though there’s no such thing). He must travel to various locations and deliver food boxes to various houses. But he must be careful, for there are mischievous creatures who want to take food boxes from his hands.
These are the available actions:
Press Start or A to start the game
Press A to jump – the more boxes you carry at once, the lower you jump
Press B to pick up boxes near you
Press B to deliver one of the boxes on your hand to a client (must be in front of the door)
Press B while holding down to drop a box on the ground.
These are the enemies
Cat: if you touch it while holding a food box, it will take it and run away. It doesn't take food from the ground, though.
Bird: if you leave food boxes on the ground on its path, it will fly toward them after a while. You can jump near it without holding a box to shoo it for a bit. It also doesn't take food from the ground, but can take it from you if you're holding it.
Pit: if you fall into a pit you lose all the boxes you're carrying. Be careful near them.
The faster you deliver the boxes, the better the tips you get. Your "high score" is the total tips you got across all locations. The Restaurant rating is also tracked, where it loses a star for ever box you lost.
