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Well man, McDonald's marketing really seemed to work this time, didn't it? I wrote about that Grimace's Birthday Game Boy Color game, and so did a whole lot of others! Seems everyone was talking about Grimace in some form or another for weeks! So it didn't take long for me to get the craving for my own taste of just what Grimace's birthday meal was.

In a word? Underwhelming! I feel like if they are going to go all out in this way, they could have jazzed up the meal just a bit! First of all, I will say I didn't really know what to expect. I knew there was a meal, and that it came with a Grimace purple shake (like the ones I collected in that fun video game!), but that was really it. Initial impressions were pretty good. The meal came in a special bag and so did the Big Mac, with a Grimace's Birthday logo on it and some fun confetti imagery printed around it. How celebratory!

Yesterday certain parts of the internet were going crazy when the news dropped that McDonald's had made a new game as a marketing tie-in for their Grimace birthday shake. While brands making games for the internet is not new and has been going on since the days of Flash, for whatever reason it was decided that their game should be in the form of a new Game Boy Color game. It's free and completely playable on their web page here, but people quickly ripped the ROM and loaded it up on original hardware to discover that it is indeed a true Game Boy Color game.