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McDonald's Video Game

Overview

McDonald's Video Game is a Flash online game published and developed by Italy-based La Molleindustria in 2006. It is described as an "anti-advergame", meaning a satire of various companies and its business practices.

McDonald's Video Game is a parody of the business practices of the corporate giant McDonald's, taking the guise of a tycoon-style business-simulation game. The game presents the player with four views: The farmland, the slaughterhouse, the restaurant and the corporate HQ. Through each of these views, decisions can be made which will affect the fate of the player's company. In the game, the player takes on the role of a McDonald's CEO by choosing whether or not to feed the player's cows genetically altered grain, plow over rainforests or feed the player's cattle to other cattle (a practice known to spread mad cow disease). The player can also choose advertising strategies and public official corruption to counteract opponents of the player's actions.

Some choices within the game, such as the opportunity to demolish villages, clear rain forests, or bribe public officials, paint the corporation in a negative light. These aspects of the game are unflattering to McDonald's, who issued a statement saying that the game "has no association with McDonald's and is, therefore, a complete misrepresentation of our people and our values."

Developers
MOLLEINDUSTRIA
Publishers
Newgrounds
Platform
Web Browser
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Box - Front

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