McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by tmtvl » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 10:07 PM UTC

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?'

Kinda makes me think of those tobacco advertisements of yesteryear. It's like "oh hey, Winston cigarettes sponsored the Flintstones, I'll never stop smoking Winstons."

Who knows, perhaps one day we'll look back on modern day fast food ads and consider them equivalent to cigarette ads.

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

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Post by Tade0 » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 10:07 PM UTC

packetlost wrote: post #14

hbn wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The article feels very "teacher set a minimum word requirement on the essay"

Get used to it, it's probably at least partially generated by ChatGPT which really likes fluffing up the prose.

Explains the recent slew of "long form" articles.

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

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Post by anthk » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 10:10 PM UTC

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.

Pentium 3-4 CPUS up to SSE2 from the last days of the W98SE era surely are.

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

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Post by Clent » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 10:10 PM UTC

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…

The article is suggesting a ROM, I don't think McDonalds would risk Nintendo's ire.

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

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Post by TeMPOraL » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 10:11 PM UTC

willis936 wrote: post #79

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.

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.

Of course there is a battleground. The counterculture is more alive than ever. It's just all been thoroughly subsumed by capitalism.

Those kids on the streets protesting most recent excesses of multinational corporations? The hoodies and Guy Fawkes masks they're wearing, the signs they're holding, the chains they're rattling - all bought on Amazon, happily providing specialized merch for the "fuck the system" market niche. And what do those kids achieve? Mostly they generate attention that moves newspapers and keeps millions glued to where they can be best exposed to ads. Etc.

Yes, the suits love the anti-corporate movements. They are a quite profitable form of entertainment.

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

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Post by howlin » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 10:13 PM UTC

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.

> I think this is pretty cool. Maybe I’ll buy some McDonalds today too.

Plenty of people will have plenty of issues with a major corporation. But it's worth pointing out that McDonald's is one of the most prominent fast food chains which has no problem with animal abuse in terms of products from horribly treated livestock animals. They have trouble even making their french fries livestock-torture free .

Maybe this issue doesn't personally matter to you, but it does create a huge problem for a company that does something so shamelessly unethical.

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

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Post by schappim » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 10:15 PM UTC

Whilst there has been mention of the 1993 "McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure", I'm surprised nobody has called out their previously lost DS Game[1]. The game was distributed to McDonald’s locations throughout Japan in 2010 for the training of existing employees[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e6xOBCAVvA&ab_channel=NickR...

[2] 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 shon » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 10:17 PM UTC

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…

Yep, thanks for posting. I have it on my Batocera rig right now.

Also let’s not forget about the long tradition of Pepsi video games including the interesting Japanese Pepsiman and the PlayStation release!

https://youtu.be/lNF3dBiSH4M

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

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Post by willis936 » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 10:19 PM UTC

Does anyone know if I can check which Mcdonald's have these? I have a bit of a retro collection and this would be a cute artifact to add.

Oh it isn't a physical cart run. I was curious about the logistics of such a thing. If it were a physical cart I'd like to take a peek inside and see the board.

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

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Post by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 10:27 PM UTC

brvsft wrote: post #82

pcthrowaway wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is pretty cool too, but um.. > Just because something is done by a massive corporation doesn’t make the thing bad I don't think anyone was saying this. Some airlines plant trees. That doesn't make planting trees bad. But massive corporations (with maybe ~1% or fewer exceptions) don't base their practices on anything remotely resembling bad or good, and this leads them to profit-seeking behaviours that ha…

> I don't think anyone was saying this. Some airlines plant trees. That doesn't make planting trees bad. Then you misunderstood the comment in question. It was quite clearly saying this. We're reading an innocuous blog post, and this person is aping reddit /r/hailcorporate language to vilify a marketing ploy by McDonald's, "exploiting nostalgia blah blah blah." You're right, they are not a good or ethical company. If…

It's hard to see what they misunderstood. The comment is about this thing being done by McDonald's rather than "something ... done by a massive corporation". The difference is in the specificity.

The point I get is not that "advertising from any large corporation is Bad" but instead that advertising from a corporation whose operations are Bad is Bad (because that specific corporation is Bad). It reads to me as an uncharitable take that OP is saying "making retro video games is Bad" (because large corporations are Bad) when I read "McDonald's being McDonald's is Bad" (because McDonald's is Bad).

(where Bad = "not good or ethical")