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McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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

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Post by libraryatnight »

bigyikes wrote: post #17
hospitalJail wrote: post #7

>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?'

Maybe the author likes retro games and fast food? The anti-corporatism shtick is so lame. Just because something is done by a massive corporation doesn’t make the thing bad. Just because something is an advertisement doesn’t make it bad. I think this is pretty cool. Maybe I’ll buy some McDonalds today too.

Sounds like a win for society of you eat as much of it as possible. It'd really teach us a lesson if you ate multiple meals a day.

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

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Post by RajT88 »

Alupis wrote: post #99
gowld wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a third option...

Literally everything you do has an impact in some way on the environment. If you want to boycott everything, you won't have an existence. Living is all about understanding trade offs and making informed decisions. Just because plants don't scream when you kill them doesn't mean a plant-only diet is without negative effects as well.

> If you want to boycott everything, you won't have an existence.

And a fourth option, it seems. However dark.

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

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Post by relativty »

FullyFunctional wrote: post #105
noduerme wrote: post #94

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I was gonna eat McDonald's tonight anyway. Regardless of the sneering of the privileged commies who live around me.

"privileged commies" is a fascinating oxymoron. Is that really how you think of the people that disagrees with you?

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

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Post by libraryatnight »

themodelplumber wrote: post #27
bigyikes wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe the author likes retro games and fast food? The anti-corporatism shtick is so lame. Just because something is done by a massive corporation doesn’t make the thing bad. Just because something is an advertisement doesn’t make it bad. I think this is pretty cool. Maybe I’ll buy some McDonalds today too.

Yeah, the evisceration of corporate-everything has really unnecessarily crowded out enjoyment of all the good parts, while at the same time somehow managing to look more ridiculous as a POV than I ever expected. Back in the edgy days, I never thought I'd find blanket-corporate-hatred becoming quite so lame, to the point of even taking on its own corporate-style blandness, in the 2020s...

American culture is sick from advertising. There will never be enough anti corporate sentiment anywhere. You should assume these businesses are killing you and know it because that's the one thing they reliably do. Anything else is to distract you from that. If they do something "nice" you can bet they could have done more better.

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

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Post by jedberg »

bongobingo1 wrote: post #13

I can't quite tell if this is written by an LLM (and aided by a person, re: the developer is known) or the writing style is just so prolific that LLMs cant help but ape it. I think it's because every sentence is pretty short. These sentences end up being related, and should probably be just one paragraph. The writing style seems to separate everything out, I can say this might be what gives the impression of a LLM gl…

FWIW I use a lot of line breaks when commenting on HN. Mainly because the text goes to a large width, and lot of folks on here use very wide screens.

I like to make sure my main points are easily readable.

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

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Post by mattl »

mortenjorck wrote: post #101
mattl wrote: post #91

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Curious which technique they use to bypass the Nintendo logo on boot

Either it's in the console ROM, in which case it's not a problem, or it's in the cartridge ROM, in which case I'd imagine it's just a matter of replacing the raster data with something else.

Yeah demoscene has a few hacks to get around the checks.

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

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Post by GauntletWizard »

i_c_b wrote: post #88

This isn't even the first legitimately interesting video game connection to McDonalds, weirdly. Treasure is an influential game development studio that did a lot of really interesting work in the mid to late 90s, responsible for games like Gunstar Heroes, Radiant Silvergun, Ikaruga, Bangai-o, Silhouette Mirage, Dynamite Headdy, Mischief Makers, Alien Soldier, and others. They were a bunch of ex-Konami developers (who…

Don't forget the legend of the lost Mcdonand's Training DS Game: https://kotaku.com/we-can-all-finally-learn-how-to-make-big-...

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

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Post by CSMastermind »

wturner wrote: post #102

In beginning of the game, the McDonalds logo only appears on a garbage can and if you run into it - you die. It's a positive message for health conscious parents.

Back in college (now 15 years ago) I did an analysis of fast food menus for a nutrition class.

McDonalds turned out to be the easiest to get a healthy meal from at the time. They had things like salads, apple slices, and a much wider variety of items than other fast food restaurants meaning that if you were to eat there every day it was much easier to make different healthy meals than it was at the others but like an order of magnitude.

Basically just skip the soft drink and only occasionally order the fries and you'll be fine.

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

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Post by anthk »

kibwen wrote: post #20

The era where "retro" meant "NES" is behind us, now retro means Game Boy Color, PS1, and Quake-era PC aesthetics. To wit, the developers of Shovel Knight (the premier NES platformer homage) are developing a GBC-styled Bloodborne-like called Mina the Hollower: https://www.yachtclubgames.com/games/mina-the-hollower/ (though sadly it's not designed to run on original hardware).

Nope. I was born in 1987, and Chinese NES clones were sold well up to 1997 until everyone in ~1999 got a Play Station at home as the prices went down. So, to US, retro was NES and the older GB games such as Mario Land 1.
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