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In an unexpected turn of events, McDonald's has started a new marketing campaign, announcing the return of their beloved McDonaldLand characters, like Grimace, Birdie the Early Bird, Hamburgular and the McNugget Buddies, as well as promoting a new ice cream shake "Grimace's Birthday". However, that wasn't the only way in which McDonald's is making said promotions.

McDonald's opened a new website titled "grimacesbirthday.com", and users are greeted with a surplus of ad-like images containing McDonald's marketing material, and the most interesting of all, is a free-to-play game in the website, appropriately titled "Grimace's Birthday". At first glance, and for those who have been in the internet for quite some time, the title might seem like your typical Java or Flash game running in the website, but the reality of it is entirely different.

"Grimace's Birthday" is actually an entirely new GameBoy Color ROM developed by Krool Toys, a new release for the GBC system in 2023, more than 2 decades after the device has been out of stores.
Those interested in playing the game can do so directly through McDonald's website, but a dump of the game has also been making its rounds online in ROM format.

UPDATE: The game "Grimace's Birthday" was made specifically for this celebration in 2023, and it was done with the use of GB Studio.

Grimace's Birthday website
GB Studio Central article

 

[RAHelllord]

Appears to work on real hardware.

I'm not digging out my flashers and a double-A's for a test on a real GBC and single game flashcart, but it's running on an Analogue Pocket and an ED X7 so it's basically guaranteed to work on original hardware as well.

 

[K3Nv2]

Meanwhile the app won't let me sign in to get the new shake lmao

 

[Eddypikachu]

The coolness factor of gameboy hombrew games has definitely tanked for me ever since GB studio released and people just fart out millions of mid gameboy games

 

[x65943]

legit had some fun with this

 

[eriol33]

Reminds me mc kids. Probably one of the best platformers in NES

 

[hobbledehoy899]

Not a bad effort I'd say, and certainly a trip down memory lane.

 

[Kevbo]

Wait until Nintendo DMCA's Mcdonalds...

 

[Lostbhoy]

Can this be considered a true gba-temp??

Ah... Damn... Gbctemp i guess

 

[MeXen]

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In an unexpected turn of events, McDonald's has started a new marketing campaign, announcing the return of their beloved McDonaldLand characters, like Grimace, Birdie the Early Bird, Hamburgular and the McNugget Buddies, as well as promoting a new ice cream shake "Grimace's Birthday". However, that wasn't the only way in which McDonald's is making said promotions.

McDonald's opened a new website titled "grimacesbirthday.com", and users are greeted with a surplus of ad-like images containing McDonald's marketing material, and the most interesting of all, is a free-to-play game in the website, appropriately titled "Grimace's Birthday". At first glance, and for those who have been in the internet for quite some time, the title might seem like your typical Java or Flash game running in the website, but the reality of it is entirely different.

"Grimace's Birthday" is actually an entirely new GameBoy Color ROM developed by Krool Toys, a new release for the GBC system in 2023, more than 2 decades after the device has been out of stores.
Those interested in playing the game can do so directly through McDonald's website, but a dump of the game has also been making its rounds online in ROM format.

UPDATE: The game "Grimace's Birthday" was made specifically for this celebration in 2023, and it was done with the use of GB Studio.

Grimace's Birthday website
GB Studio Central article

Aint the devs known for making illegal copycats of games done shoddily on GBstudio?

 

[Bladexdsl]

coming up next: Ronalds gender reveal

 

[Gamemaster1379]

Actual Game Boy Color ROM file is here: https://grimacesbirthday.com/bX4TvUeiUEfKRw8bkPGaB
Just add the .gbc extension and it will work in every emulator.

Access denied. Looks like they wisened up. Anyone got a link?

 

[ShadowOne333]

Access denied. Looks like they wisened up. Anyone got a link?

The ROM has been dumped and shared around, try looking at the usual archival sites or so.

 

[Xzi]

The answer to Sneak King everyone was holding their breath for.

 

[impeeza]

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In an unexpected turn of events, McDonald's has started a new marketing campaign, announcing the return of their beloved McDonaldLand characters, like Grimace, Birdie the Early Bird, Hamburgular and the McNugget Buddies, as well as promoting a new ice cream shake "Grimace's Birthday". However, that wasn't the only way in which McDonald's is making said promotions.

McDonald's opened a new website titled "grimacesbirthday.com", and users are greeted with a surplus of ad-like images containing McDonald's marketing material, and the most interesting of all, is a free-to-play game in the website, appropriately titled "Grimace's Birthday". At first glance, and for those who have been in the internet for quite some time, the title might seem like your typical Java or Flash game running in the website, but the reality of it is entirely different.

"Grimace's Birthday" is actually an entirely new GameBoy Color ROM developed by Krool Toys, a new release for the GBC system in 2023, more than 2 decades after the device has been out of stores.
Those interested in playing the game can do so directly through McDonald's website, but a dump of the game has also been making its rounds online in ROM format.

UPDATE: The game "Grimace's Birthday" was made specifically for this celebration in 2023, and it was done with the use of GB Studio.

Grimace's Birthday website
GB Studio Central article

is not emulation of ROMs illegal?, as say by the big N

 

[Sicklyboy]

Didn't play it but it does boot and get to the main menu on an EZFlash Jr (that may or may not be a clone, can't remember)

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Bonus, now that my batteries are charged - here's what you get when you run it on an older Gameboy:

 

[playstays_shun]

who knew Mickey D's were fans of Analogue?

didnt have that one on my bingo card for 2023

 

[kjetil_f]

Actual Game Boy Color ROM file is here: https://grimacesbirthday.com/bX4TvUeiUEfKRw8bkPGaB
Just add the .gbc extension and it will work in every emulator.

Cool. How did you know where to look?

 

[JellyTime09]

Meanwhile the app won't let me sign in to get the new shake lmao

mcdonalds app became my curse as soon as it stopped supporting my jailbroken 14.2 iphone, terrible tbh lol.

 

[ghjfdtg]

Access denied. Looks like they wisened up. Anyone got a link?

No issues here. Link still works.

Cool. How did you know where to look?

Most browsers have debugging tools and among them network analyzers. You can then search for files it's downloading via http GET requests.

 

[impeeza]

is not a bad game is hard but fun.