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McDonald's Video Game

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179:, 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 49: 186:
Choices within the game include demolishing villages and bribing public officials. McDonald's 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."
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The game has been translated into nine languages: English, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Danish, Turkish, Portuguese, French and German.
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which is exactly the same except that it eliminates all mention of McDonald's such as the franchise logo and a
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of various companies and its business practices. It has also been classified as a
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of the business practices of the corporate quick-service restaurant giant
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Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions Inc. v. McDonald's Corp.
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mascot. This was done in order to avoid copyright sanctions.
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For video games produced under license from McDonald's, see
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Index

Global Gladiators
McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure
M.C. Kids

Developer(s)
Molleindustria
Publisher(s)
Engine
Macromedia Flash
Platform(s)
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parody
Single-player
Flash game
Italy
Molleindustria
advergame
satire
newsgame
parody
McDonald's
mad cow disease
Kongregate
bear
Ronald McDonald


"Creators Put Politics Into Video Games"
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