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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 autoexec »

CSMastermind wrote: post #118
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…

The last time I tried McDonalds apple slices they somehow tasted like chemicals. I wonder how much of their "healthy" food is actually healthy. You could recreate a lot of their menu at home using fresh/real ingredients and it'd probably be a lot healthier than the stuff they ship all over the country in plastic, pumped full of salt and preservatives, then wrapped in PFAS.

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Post by megablast »

RajT88 wrote: post #112
Alupis wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Fish flavoured soylent green?

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Post by ifyoubuildit »

robgibbons wrote: post #69
ifyoubuildit wrote: post #40

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Hey, good for you finding something that you like, but god damn if this doesn't read like ad copy. If you're not getting paid by them, you should be. You probably already know this, but fast food 5 times a week is basically putting in a request for health problems.

It's a copypasta. There are different versions floating around, but this one's my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnXgbMgfkYg

Damn. The sooner reddit gets its shit together the better.

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Post by z3c0 »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #107
willis936 wrote: post #79

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If anyone can find a spark of counterculture in 2023 I encourage it. There is no longer a battleground for the soul of society. It's safe to say the suits won.

Are you familiar with normcore? There's an argument to be made that the most counterculture thing you can do is to semi-ironically eat a Happy Meal in order to support indie Gameboy devs

> the most counterculture thing you can do is to semi-ironically eat a Happy Meal in order to support indie Gameboy devs

Like Winston at the Chestnut Tree Cafe

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Post by pram »

saulrh wrote: post #140
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…

That game's music is particularly special. Listen to the final boss theme! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJaWgvWvvgc .

Sounds a lot like some stuff on Dynamite Headdy, very nice.

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Post by Gigachad »

wkjagt wrote: post #47
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).

I find it difficult to call any PC that has a CPU clock expressed in GHz retro / vintage. Even though I know PCs 20 years ago were already in that ballpark.

Imo the Xbox 360/PS3 are the newest retro consoles currently.

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Post by strken »

willis936 wrote: post #79
bigyikes wrote: post #17

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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.

If anyone can find a spark of counterculture in 2023 I encourage it. There is no longer a battleground for the soul of society. It's safe to say the suits won.

Counterculture doesn't really work post-90s because mainstream culture started embracing all the previously marginalised groups.

You can hold an illegal gay rave under a bridge, and in response mainstream media figures will write articles demanding the permit process be made easier, then McDonald's will retweet photos of your ravers eating a meal the morning after. This is...okay, I guess. Social permissiveness is the circus, and it's still good even though our share of the bread is constantly shrinking.

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Post by TapamN »

Does this have the Nintendo logo in the ROM header? Real GameBoys check the ROM for an image containing Nintendo's logo during boot up as a way to prevent unlicensed games. The idea is, to make a GMB/GBC boot, you must at least commit trademark infringement, which gives Nintendo more legal leverage to block/punish any attempts to sell anything that Nintendo didn't get a cut of.

If the logo is missing, it would still boot on an emulator that doesn't emulate the boot ROM (which is most of them) and probably most flashcarts, so there's no need for it to be in their release. But it's still possible that whatever build system they used automatically inserted the logo.

There's no way Nintendo would bother McDonalds legally over something like this if the logo's in there, but I'm still curious if it is.

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