Paid Members PunkStep Posted February 20, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted February 20, 2018 (edited) Don't forget Pushover as well, the game that centred on Quavers crisps mascot Colin Curly! Was actually a fun puzzle game too. Â The McDonalds one was Mick & Mack, wasn't it? Also a decent game if I recall. Edited February 20, 2018 by PunkStep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 7-Up also had a Fido Dido game developed but it was never released, I'm pretty sure you can download a full version online tho. It even had boxart so was canned right before it was meant to go on sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanky316 Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 4 minutes ago, PunkStep said: Don't forget Pushover as well, the game that centred on Quavers crisps mascot Colin Curly! Was actually a fun puzzle game too.  The McDonalds one was Mick & Mack, wasn't it? Also a decent game if I recall.  Came free with my Amiga, such a quality game and remember spending ages moving around the various tiles to try and get through to the next level. Clever little puzzle game that one. Might be more fondly remembered if it hadn't had the product placement probably. I also remember having MC Kids and Cool Spot so the kid targeting obviously worked on me. I remember playing Zool which had loads of Chupa Chups adverts all over it and Robocod would have things like Penguin bars all over the place but don't think they were officially licensed so to speak and just old fashioned product placement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Wright Mark Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 There's a great two parter video from Slopes Game Room (who's videos I thoroughly recommend if you're into retro games) about the complete history of McDonald's games. He even talks about the mobile games that came out.    Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted February 20, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted February 20, 2018 The first conversation I ever had with my best mate at college, and brother of the bloke who ended up setting up the wrestling promotion I work for, was an argument over where Zool was from. We were in the college canteen, someone was amazed that they had Chupa-Chups, and this guy I'd never shared more than a few words with turns to me and says, "Zool was from Chupa-Chup world", to which I replied, "fuck off, he was from the Nth Dimension!". A hasty trip to the college library later determined that we were both right. In the case of Zool, they needed the money to finish the game so got the sponsorship deal to cover costs. A lot of this sort of game would have been something that already existed - maybe in the middle of development, or even games that had been released in a different country, but with the graphics tweaked to include Ronald McDonald or whoever. Â Chester Cheetah, the Cheetos mascot, had a Mega Drive game in the US, that apparently never once mentions Cheetos, so that's some top quality marketing there. I've always assumed that they were just relatively cheap advertising (and a decent money spinner) for the companies doing them, and targeted at kids, who were usually the same target market, but apparently there's a school of thought that the rise of corporate mascots in video games coincides with tighter regulations on advertising to kids on TV coming in around the early '90s. So basically corporate mascots in games may have been the new Saturday morning cartoons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Where the fuck were Coke and Pepsi's showing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted February 20, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted February 20, 2018 Google tells me that Japan got "Coca Cola Kid" on the Game Gear, and "Pepsiman" on the PS1, so they had a bash at it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoUseforaUsername Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Burnout 3: Takedown had so much replay value; I never tired of it. Great soundtrack too. @Merzbow Didn't know that re: Abe. Shows how out of the loop I am. I still have a PS3 and basically stick to FIFA and the Sega Collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted February 20, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted February 20, 2018 This is one of my earliest home computing memories. We had it on our Spectrum when I was about 6. https://goo.gl/images/xcXELN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 Ribena missed a trick by not doing a Lemmings clone starring their infinite cartoon berry mascots, with the goal being to get as many of them into a bottle of delicious, delicious Ribena as possible. Watching your sacrificial berries explode into drops of purple juice would've made you thirsty for a nice tall glass too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted February 21, 2018 Moderators Share Posted February 21, 2018 Yeah I'd play that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro Red Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 They were all at it back then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 Free muncher badge? Is that similar to the infamous gay card that's forever being dropped? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro Red Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 I'm not sure it's subtle enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted February 22, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted February 22, 2018 Kingdom Come: Deliverance is getting great reviews. Has anyone here played it? What do you reckon? Seriously considering grabbing it on payday for PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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