Tekken fans pester developer to add a Waffle House stage
Photo: Waffle House (Flickr)
Get ready for the next battle… at the Waffle House. For a while now, Tekken fans on social media have been pestering Katsuhiro Harada, longtime Tekken producer, to add a Waffle House battle stage. All the posts seemingly got to Harada, who finally asked, “Why?” The resulting thread on X was a neat bit of American / Japanese cultural exchange in which fans explained the deep lore of the Waffle House franchise and why it’d make for a fitting addition to the King of the Iron Fist Tournament.
Waffle House is a breakfast diner known for being always full and always open; it’s the place you go at 2AM when you’re drunk and hungry. And because it remains open rain or shine or worse, feeding families and the inebriated alike, it’s developed a bit...