For reasons no one can fanthom
You’re talking about it, that’s the main reason
For reasons no one can fathom
The ROM hacking community takes this personally.
ROM hacking and well, just retro development like this is awesome. I think there is something to be said about the creativity that comes with a limited canvas and so on
It’s obvious right, everyone is talking about this and McDonalds is loving it.
For the one other person who might be wondering, the game works on CFW as well!
Afaik the DS basically has GBA hardware built in, right? So I don’t see why there was a chance of it not working
Mostly that it was a GBC game being released in 2023 with the website being the assumed location it would be played. I honestly figured it was just a generic file type that was made in the style or with the constraints of the Game Boy Color, not that it was actually a Color game.
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Thank you ! Also on topic of the post I think it’s pretty cool that people are still making games for older consoles. I’ve been experimenting with making a gbc game with gb studio in my spare time.
How are you liking it so far?
It’s pretty seemless! I’m stilling adjusting to the limitations of the gb studio engine but overall it’s very intuitive and easy to learn
Here is some gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK4k5kUj9WA
I watched a few minutes of that. Appreciate the link to the game play.
It’s nice to see stuff like this for the GameBoy :). I have to try this on my Analogue Pocket :).
It would be so much cooler if they actually released a cartridge for it.
Wait there aren’t any actual carts for this? Did they just drop a rom file somewhere? Who at McDonald’s came up with this idea and how can we get them a raise!
no its just a download or a site to play it from. No cart. Kinda sad about it, would have been a sick collectable.
I love this so much. I need to break out one of those gameboy studio tools and take a crack at a game of my own.
🪺😂 honestly a hot idea. The article is fun to read too
Key words for follow-up reading :)
- GB Studio
- atari2600
- the Tetris chicken nugget in prc
I think I knew in my heart it wasn’t going to be a purple Grimace cartridge, but I was still disappointed when I learned it wasn’t.
Retro handhelds have really revived people’s appetites for retro-styled games. There’s a lot of fluff on itch.io, but there’s good stuff there too.
The music in this game is way better than it needs to be.
I played Grimace’s Birthday on my Analogue Pocket. It’s surprisingly decent. I wish there was a mode that focused on getting a big combo similar to the OlliOlli daily challenges.
Agreed! I played it on my FunKey S while waiting for a pickup yesterday and it was pretty fun and looked great. I think I’ll put it on my Anbernic 351V because the grinding was a little tricky to nail with the tiny buttons on the FunKey S. But it is cool that they essentially put accessibility options in there to let it auto-grind if you’re on a mobile device.
My 67 year old mom’s got a new rebuilt and improved Game Boy Colour. She wanted a switch, but dear lord watching her try to operate mine…so I was like hey what about a new Game Boy, there’s people on Etsy that rebuild them. She’s happier than a pig on shit, and I don’t have to answer endless support calls + she’s got a super sized library to work through from my old Game Boy games. Will have to check this out to see if I can get her one of these.
From other comments, it sounds like there are no physical carts.
An Everdrive would probably work and they’re only like $25 for a Chinese one, plus a few bucks for a micro SD. It’s not like you’d need a big one!
I used an everdrive for my megadrive (lol) and it worked flawlessly! I highly recommend they get one of these for their grandmother that is a great idea!
This is such a fantastic idea! The gameboy was such an amazing system and it’s so awesome to see it still being appreciated and even games on it being experienced for the first time by newcomers. My father was wanting to get into gaming as well but one of his main gripes was “there’s too many buttons to learn” I think I might just get him a gameboy! Idk why I didn’t consider that before thank you so much for the idea!
My dad’s actually a bigger gamer than I am. He is being stubborn about retiring, but I’m going to get him a PS5 when he retires in the next year or so. He was also begging me to just get my mom something simple, as he too, didn’t want to have to explain how to use a Switch to her all the time. The Game Boy is such a good idea for those kind of folks, and you should see what people are doing to those things now. I almost bought myself one, not going to lie.
