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nah, people can do whatever they want with it :)
McDonalds makes ~$23 billion per year. You deserve something.
They are getting exactly what they asked for.
McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game
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#222This 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…
and there was a crazy freaky 3d test Easter egg found just 2 years ago for the first time. https://youtu.be/BvGC5dJg3E8
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Please read the licensing terms in their GitHub repo first before making a comment.
What you can do isn't necessarily the same as what you should do. McDonald's missed an opportunity to make this even cooler by compensating the developer. A couple thousand dollars in the right place can be more effective than millions in marketing. It just shows the company cares.
Who else should get random bonuses?
How about the hundreds of open source contributors to web browsers? What about the children of the people who clean the offices of the studio that made the game? I bet I could identify about a million people who deserve a bonus here.
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Curious which technique they use to bypass the Nintendo logo on boot
There is a way you can hack it by changing the logo somewhere through the second check. But couldn’t you also write an exception in the emulator itself? (I’m actually not sure - just genuinely curious!)
I believe the game also runs on a real Game Boy
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#225Neat!
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nah, people can do whatever they want with it :)
McDonalds makes ~$23 billion per year. You deserve something.
I personally don't think we should expect more from a "richer" user as soon as they're following the license of OSS (or expect anything different at all, regardless users' background or purpose).
It just doesn't make sense, not even morally.
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#227>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?'
I'd wager the game was made by a digital agency for expressly this purpose
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#228The agency who developed the game has a website that nails the Geocities-era aesthetic – https://krooltoys.com/
I love it!
Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game
#229This 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…
Not even the only McDonald's branded game of the era! I played MC Kids growing up on NEWS and it also was a dramatically better game than it had any right to be. Not quite the same storied history but still recommend playing if you're looking for some hidden NES gems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nKywTkMnAs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.C._Kids
Man, that video was nostalgic. I played this so much that I remember the song...
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#230I'm kind of shocked the physical tooling exists to make a Game Boy cartridge and chips more than anything else.
I'm kind of shocked the physical tooling exists to make a Game Boy cartridge and chips more than anything else. You can get brand new Atari 2600 cartridges in boxes and everything. Though, I think the shells are actually scavenged from old games.
>You can get brand new Atari 2600 cartridges in boxes and everything.
Yup, new titles still being made. There's even Halo for the 2600.
Tons of titles currently being manufactured for a lot of vintage consoles/computers: https://atariage.com/store/