GB McDonald's releases radical new Game Boy Colour action platformer game in honour of Grimace's Birthday

[D-Pad Doc]

Long-lived hamburger fast food chain McDonald's recently dropped a brand new Game Boy Colour game as part of a birthday celebration campaign for Grimace, a former milkshake thief turned good guy and a longtime friend of Ronald McDonald. Grimace is on a quest to find his friends in time to blow the candles out on his birthday cake, and collecting purple birthday shakes along the way to serve for the guests.

Here's the official site for the Grimace's Birthday game and it's free of play on mobile and browser.

Do you think other restaurants will randomly drop new games for old consoles on surprise in today's era just like what McDonald's did?

P.S.: Don't forget to hit up your local McDonald's for one of those limited edition commemorative Purple Shakes for Grimace's birthday.

 

[Artisan Vistra]

Video game commercials have always been a thing. From Sneak King, the KFC dating sim, Chex Quest on the PC, and it goes the other way at the grocery store. You see game ads in a store without any video games even being in there. The odds of having old tech get new games are just as likely as commercials bent on nostalgia as well as movies. If people like the idea, they will interact with it and they will most likely profit because making any video game takes some effort. Remember the Mcdonald's Nintendo DS training game? There's just so much potential and it never ends.

 

[froggyboy604]

I think McDonald's releasing a Gameboy color game can be a good way for getting people to visit McDonald's to check out the game, and buy it to collect if they like what they see.

It is nice of McDonald's to make the game free to play on web browser and mobile for people who can't afford the game, or don't own a Gameboy Color.

 

[Grungie]

I’m curious how many people under a certain age even know who the McDonald’s characters even are.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Game took so long to come out several console generations passed lol.

 

[Artisan Vistra]

Game took so long to come out several console generations passed lol.

Couldn't afford to develop a Switch game.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Couldn't afford to develop a Switch game.

Not with their cheap burgers.

 

[Sebitude]

I played this a couple days ago and thought it was really fun, would have been a nice hidden gem if had been released back in the day.