I never knew before that there was a video game after McDonald's. The video game is to alert people the cruelty of fast food companies, and in this case McDonald's.The game was released in 2006. The game is supposed to be a business tycoon kind of game. If anyone has ever played roller-coaster tycoon, it is a parody of that. In the game there are 4 different "stations" that you, the manager, are allowed to work on. The farmland, the slaughter house, the restaurant, and the headquarters. A quote from Wikipedia says, "In the game, the player plays the role of a McDonald's CEO, choosing whether or not to feed the player's cows genetically altered grain, or plow over rainforests, or feed the player's cows to other cows. The player can also choose advertising strategies and public official corruption to counteract opponents of the player's actions." I thought this was pretty funny. The purpose of the game was too put McDonald's in a bad light. McDonald's commented by saying the game is not associated with the company, and it is representing them incorrectly. The games name on websites has been changed to Burger Tycoon, and Ronald McDonald has been changed to a bear.
Here is a link to the game if anyone is interested "http://www.addictinggames.com/burgertycoon.html"
-Jesse Fajnzylber
Great find! I'm not sure I could stand the theme song for more than a minute, but it's pretty clever. Clearly the game was not too effective in getting McD's to change its practices. I wonder if there are web sites that list all of the games and toys McD's itself has issues (in Happy Meals, say). I bet there's someone on EBay paying a lot for this stuff, and I'll bet someone, somewhere, has a huge collection.
ReplyDeleteI think ill try the game out. In your opinion is it representing mcdonalds correctly??
ReplyDeletecool stuff! maybe i'll try the game out too.
ReplyDeletei agree with mr.fischer though...i clicked on the link and the theme song just kept going and going...
maybe when i play i'll mute the volume :)