McDonald’s is getting into retrogaming!

McDonald’s has recently made a couple of interesting and surprising forays into the world of retrogaming, the first being probably the most unusual handheld I’ve ever seen, an officially licensed Tetris game in a yellow device shaped like a Chicken McNugget!  The bad news is it’s only available to purchase at McDonald’s branches in China although at the time of writing quite a few were available at a decent price on eBay.

The device is quite large and chunky but plays a decent game of Tetris, upon loading the game you’re greeted with the familiar Tetris music which takes you into a black and white version of the iconic game, the buttons are not the best (expected on a device costing $4!) but are usable and having a fast drop button is useful.

A unique and unusual addition to a collection, am glad to have bagged one!

Then in a further entry into retrogaming, to mark Grimace’s 52nd birthday they have this week unexpectedly released a brand new GameBoy Color game entitled ‘Grimace’s Birthday’, this is available to play online in a web browser at https://grimacesbirthday.com/ although by far the best way to play is through the rom for GameBoy Color which can be downloaded from https://archive.org/download/grimaces-birthday

The game itself is actually really fun to play and looks really nice, it’s a platformer and the object is to gather purple milkshakes dotted around each level and find Grimace’s friends in time for his birthday party, a really good job has been made of this game and is well worth checking out, it’s a real surprise to find a new GBC game in 2023 but very welcome all the same.

It’ll be interesting to see if McDonald’s have any further entries planned into retrogaming!