M.C. Kids. [Archive] - Retrogaming Roundtable

MmmK413

07-23-2006, 01:29 AM

I remember when I was much younger a couple of my cousins, who I saw only a few times a year, had this game for their NES in which you played some kid collecting golden arches and secret clubhouse cards. The other day I was at a local game store (Vac's N Video's: Your complete source for Video Games and Custodial Service and Equipment) and I found a copy of this game (with the box and manuals and such) for three bucks. So I picked it up. It's a pretty damn fun game.

And about that game store, I kid you not. I challenge you to tell me about a crazier video game store out there.

wallydawg

07-23-2006, 01:35 AM

I remember playing this game at my neighbor's house one time. I wonder if they still have it...

Jorpho

07-23-2006, 02:02 AM

Treasure was responsible for that one, no?

cyberfluxor

07-23-2006, 02:20 AM

...(Vac's N Video's: Your complete source for Video Games and Custodial Service and Equipment)...
...And about that game store, I kid you not. I challenge you to tell me about a crazier video game store out there.

Is this some kind of advertisement?

I picked this game up a few months ago and played a few hours worth and put it down. It's so similar to SMB3 it's crazy! I don't know too much about the game, but did they get permission to use the game model of SMB3 or was it made by the same team?

Also, I never played this game as a kid, matter of fact didn't know anything about its existance before I stumbled across it. Apparently though, a few of my close buds played it back in the earlier days and hadn't seen it since the early 90's! Brought back some awesome memories for them.

Kroogah

07-23-2006, 02:29 AM

Treasure was responsible for that one, no?

Nope, Virgin was. You're thinking of the Genesis McDonalds game.

delafro

07-23-2006, 05:42 AM

Oh yeah, MC Kids is definitely a lot of fun. Tight controls and some good level design make it one platformer you'll want to pick up. It's very, very similar to SMB3 in a lot of ways though.

delafro

07-23-2006, 05:47 AM

double post x_x

daynum

07-23-2006, 07:45 AM

I got this game a few years ago and really wanted to hate it for the shameless McDonalds advertising, but I found it to be an enjoyable platformer. One of the best on the NES. There will always be the comparisons to Mario but it had some key differences like switching to playing upside down and collecting the cards to proceed.

GizmoGC

07-23-2006, 10:43 PM

This is my favorite game of all time. Beaten it many many many times. There is a prototype version out there that was released via rom dump last year.

The game was going to have powerups but they dropped that idea.

As for the easter egg....what are you talking about?

exit

07-24-2006, 01:35 AM

I remember seeing ads for the game in Gamepro in the early 90s, but it never seemed to interest me. I'm surprised that Burgerking never made a BK KIDS type game, since they had the horribly stereotyped kids club thing going on at the time.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/a/a3/250px-Burger_King_Kids_Club_Gang.jpg

For some reason I remember there being an Asian girl.

mailman187666

07-24-2006, 11:55 AM

I always thought MC Kids was indeed a pretty fun game. When I was younger, I didn't even relize it was a McDonalds game until i popped it in the machine. It is very suprising to see an ad game come out to be as good as it was. If any NES fans have passed by this game because they think it would be a game with subliminal messages to eat cheeze burgers everywhere, they are missing out on a pretty solid game. If you see it for a couple bucks, check it out.

Imstarryeyed

07-24-2006, 12:52 PM

Hoo boy, I was laughing about that weird unholy marriage of Vacs and Videogames..

I found there website.. man this is just too good to be true, it reminds me of the olden days of videogames where every company was jumping on the bandwagon like Purina Pet Foods.

This is just awesome... vac's and vids..

http://www.vacsandvideos.com/

For a guy that is getting ready to open my used video game store here in Texas, this was a good inspiration. The retail industry is indeed a unique one.

Cauterize

07-24-2006, 12:56 PM

Does anyone have a screenshot of an Easter egg from the game?

you mean the infamous screen with Ronald and the Mc Kids in that night lit tent up to no good!? @_@

i love starting rumours! What is the 'actual' easter egg you talk of!?

MmmK413

07-24-2006, 01:29 PM

dangevin

07-25-2006, 12:19 AM

My fondest memory of MC Kids is the "Race block" at the top of the game. Before the game begins you get to hit the block and magically change your kid from caucasian to african-american. This gives me a sort of queasy feeling...it's not really racism in the same way that affirmative action isn't really racism...

Anyways I had more fun and laughs on the title screen arbitrarily swapping the poor kid's skin color than I actually did playing the game. Still searching for the brick in SMB3 that pops out a suit with MC Hammer Pants.
-dano

BocoDragon

07-25-2006, 01:21 AM

This game rocked back in the day.... it had a really crazy special world that, at the time, I was thought was hardcore.... With all the cards you had to find in each level, it was like 2D mario combined with his 3D star objectives.

I loved this guide for it I had in an issue of EGM in 92. Years later I went back to that beloved guide and I realized it was a paid advertisement. :/

And LOL @ "Race Block"... that's exactly what it was! Me and my buddy always fought over who could be the cool black kid over the dorky white kid LOL

Okay, let's be fair: It was a block to change from Mick to Mack..... ;)

VG_Maniac

07-26-2006, 06:28 AM

I just picked this game up a few days ago. I haven't gotten around to playing it yet, though. Probably won't for awhile.

Steven

07-26-2006, 03:56 PM

I just picked this game up a few days ago. I haven't gotten around to playing it yet, though. Probably won't for awhile.

heh, ditto. Interesting story on how I bought MC Kids. I won Breath of Fire manual on eBay from a guy living 40 minutes away from me. When I came, he had some $3 NES games and I picked up Godzilla, MC Kids and Magic of Schaeraze something :P good times

MagicMajenta

07-26-2006, 04:11 PM

Hmm reading this thread, I wonder if this is the Famicom game that I have. I never really knew the title of many of my Famicom games since they are in Japanese. But I have this one game that you control Ronald McDonald if not then someone who closely resembles him and I believe all these years I knew the game as Ronald McDonald because I believe that's what I was told when I bought it. But now from reading this thread I wonder if the game I have is MC Kids. And all these years I never saw a US NES version of the Famicom game that I owned. Hmm.

o2william

07-26-2006, 04:54 PM

M.C. Kids has the distinction of being the last NES game I purchased from a major retailer. I picked mine up from Wal-Mart something like six years ago, which is really late for an NES cart. They had a big bin filled with NIB M.C. Kids shrinkwrapped together with an animated McDonald's movie on VHS -- "McDonald's Treasure Island" or something like that. I probably should have bought a few extras and hung onto them, but I didn't have a lot of extra money back then.

Like others in this thread, I expected absolute garbage but found a surprisingly excellent NES game. I still can't believe how good that game is, considering its background. I had high hopes for the other Mick and Mack game (Global Gladiators for the Sega Genesis), but it turned out to be pretty poor. Any game that tells you to "strap on your goo shooters" is not for me.

PentiumMMX

08-02-2006, 10:56 PM

Yeah, I have M.C. Kids. It's a decent Doki-Doki Panic \ Super Mario Bros. 2 clone.

However, avoid the Game Boy Version (McDonaldland) at all costs unless you have a collection of GB games that isn't complete without it! (It's another crappy NES to Game Boy port, BTW)

RetroYoungen

08-03-2006, 01:50 PM

MC Kids messes with my head. A good game based on McDonald's? How can this be?

I picked it up a long time ago, I don't even know why I bought it at full price (or why it was given to me at full price) when I was... geez, seven years old? And I thoroughly enjoyed it, even if I never have beaten it.

Definately one of those underappreciated, surprising gems on the NES. Especially when you get to run along the ceiling, that was pretty badass. LOL