It’s time to put a smile on your face and a dangerously high level of cholesterol in your arteries! It’s time to hunt for treasure and wield ancient magical powers! It’s your chance to play as the world’s most famous clown! No, not Charlie Sheen – it’s time to take on the role of burger-shifter and face-painted nightmare beacon Ronald McDonald in the 1993 Megadrive / Genesis golden-arches-em-up McDonald’s Treasure Land Adventure.
For a limited time, McDonalds in Japan will be distributing free game content for customers with Nintendo 3DS handhelds. The DLC will be exclusive to the 3DS game Slime Mori Mori Dragon Quest 3 but they will also be distributing a free original game, McDonald’s Slime Ship Battle DX. There will be 4 exclusive downloadable items for the Slime Mori Mori Dragon Quest 3, and each will be distributed separately through the duration of 4 weeks. You must download them all for the complete set.
They may have helped save the Earth in the Halo series, but the UNSC’s ODST forces seem to be having a little trouble adjusting to civilian life now that the war’s over. Case in point: you don’t need armour to go to McDonalds. The drive-thru at McDonalds.
You think, new Pokémon Happy Meal figures get Japanese kids in television ads excited? You are wrong. They do not.
You may have seen these cheap LCD games offered as McDonalds Happy Meal toys before. They’ve been run in several territories around the world. But you’ve never seen them advertised like they were in Pakistan.
A few weeks ago, I showed you every Nintendo DS that had ever been released. Turns out I missed one: the official McDonalds Japan DSi console!
Cave Story, the freeware action adventure game from indie developer Daisuke Amaya, has a retro sounding soundtrack. It’s perfect fodder to be recreated with Ronald McDonald ads.
Music queen Namie Amuro doesn’t only set trends in her native Japan. She also sells hamburgers.
Today in Japan, McDonald’s is rolling out a Wi-Fi service today in its restaurants across the country. Here’s the television commercial. Fascinating.