McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Post by outime » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:03 PM UTC

McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game
retrododo.com

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Post by WhiteRice » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:23 PM UTC

I adore this, handheld gaming and fast food company marketing check so many nostalgia boxes for me.

The accompanying website is a blast from the past too,

https://grimacesbirthday.com/

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Post by bovermyer » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:23 PM UTC

That's delightful. I needed a bit of levity in the wake of the latest AWS meltdown.

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Post by xxpor » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:25 PM UTC

I'm kind of shocked the physical tooling exists to make a Game Boy cartridge and chips more than anything else.

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Post by hbn » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:25 PM UTC

That would have been cool if they did a run of physical cartridges, with the box and everything.

Limited Run Games does runs of physical Gameboy cartridges still. They have to restyle things to not have Nintendo branding, but it can be done.

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Post by hbn » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:27 PM UTC

xxpor wrote: post #4

I'm kind of shocked the physical tooling exists to make a Game Boy cartridge and chips more than anything else.

They didn't actually do that, it seems to just be a ROM release.

Though they could have. Limited Run Games does Gameboy cartridges. I'm not sure what kind of tooling they use for it though.

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Post by hospitalJail » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:28 PM UTC

>Just be sure to order some McDonald’s to support them. Who knows… if we keep eating McDonald’s, they might keep producing these oddball retro gaming related projects.

>I, for one, will NEVER stop eating McDonald’s. You have my word.

Uh... hail marketing! Nothing quite like getting nostalgia exploited for corporate profits. But hey, its important to support... uh... 'retro gaming?'

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Post by krapp » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:29 PM UTC

Related: The 10 Year Hunt for the Lost McDonald's DS Game[0]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e6xOBCAVvA

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Post by urbandw311er » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:31 PM UTC

Title is a bit misleading - it’s a ROM for an emulator, it isn’t a game that you could play on an actual Gameboy, were you still to own one.

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Post by circuit10 » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:31 PM UTC

If it’s only officially playable through an emulator I wonder why didn’t just use a modern game engine to make something in a pixel art style? This is definitely more interesting though