Burger King X-Box game promotion
 

Anyone seen these? Burger king has teamed up with X-box to sell crappy video games bearing the Burger King's likeness (yes, that scarey looking dude in the mask). Apparently there are three different ones, a race gaem, some sort of bumper car game, and another that I don't have any idea about.

All I can say is...FUNNY!!! Hillariously bad games that are used as promotional advertisments? Wow! I don't own an X-box, but I'd actually be willing to buy one just to play these.

SUrely, there used to be a rich culture of horrible games based off of commercial characters. In the old days of Atari, we had Kool-aid man and Chase the Chuck Wagon (to name a few). I played Kool-aoid man once. Horrible stuff, actually. These were basically used as promotions, you collect UPC symbols and sent away for them. Nintendo was no better (though more restrictive). McDonald land? Cool Spot? Yo Noid? Unlike the Atari Games, you actually had to buy these full price at stores. SNES and Genisis had Chester Cheetah and more Cool Spot. The last one I thought I'd ever see was an M&M's factory game where you had to catch the Minis and stop them from taking over. This was for Game Boy Color (and I think they had some for PC).

I guess no one cared about buying them when you could play commercial themed games online at their respective websites (I.e. Post, Wonka...etc).

Hi, welcome to 2 weeks ago. This has also been mentioned in the Xbox thread. Maybe you should check it out.

Errr... I don't usually visit that thread. Mainly I just posted it seperately just to ragg on how stupid and pointless these advertisement based games are.

Yeah, they are pointless and stupid, but leave Cool Spot out of that list. Cool Spot was awesome (from the creators of Earthworm Jim).

Hell yeah it is! I told you, buddy! Cool Spot FTW!

Agreed.

I also loved Yo Noid! for the nes.. Awesome game.

Cool Spot was sweet. I didn't even know at first that I was playing some 7UP game...

Then again I think I was about 7.... Eh... Heheh...

Hey, MC Kids was pretty fun, and ahead of it's time. It played a lot like Super Mario 3 before SM3 came out. It was just hard... and full of "Buy McDonalds" *wink wink nudge nudge*

Uhhhh...MC Kids was released in 1991 in Europe and 92 in North America. SMB3 was released in 88' in Japan and 90' in NA. And it played very little like SMB3. In fact, besides the whole platforming thing and the map over world, they were nothing alike. MC Kids was a totally awesome game though, I'll give you that. And hard is right; I still can't beat it.

As for the buy McDonald's thing, I actually believe it did very little of that. Aside from the fact that you collected golden arches and it has Ronald and the gang in it, there was really no product placement. You weren't on the quest for the perfect Big Mac, or in need of some Chicken McNuggets to power your hungry rocket car. Most of it had little to nothing to do with McDonald's. It was an admirable game.

Which one? The SNES one? I recall a Cool Spot for NES that was a puzzle game.

You know, a long long time ago, I was at a Mom and Pop used video game store, and they had a video game cartridge that was called McMario. Now, I still wonder about that, if it's a bootlegged hack of McKids with Mario thrown in, or if it was legit (which I doubt).

Anyway, I guess the ones that were sold in stores may have played decently. The Atari ones were crap, and nothing short of mail away promos. I played (or tried to play) Koolaid man. Horrible, horrible game.

These BK ones look hillariously bad, IMO. Sneak King is just bad enough to crack me up like an idiot. You just go around giving people hamburgers? It's almost like it should have been for Atari 20 years ago. Just with bigger graphics on a more expensive system.