McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure

McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure

Game Boy - USA - 1st edition.

Developer Treasure Publisher Treasure Published 1993-??-?? Platforms Genesis Genres Licensed, Platformer, Platform shooter, Shooter Themes Cartoon, Surreal Series McDonald's Distribution Commercial

McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure is an action platformer game for younger audiences developed by Treasure for the Genesis in 1993. Despite being a McDonald's tie-in game, it's professionally made and quite fun, just really easy.

Personal

Own?	No.
Won?	Yes.
Finished	2017‎-05-29.

I played this game simply because I wanted to claim that I had beaten a Genesis game. This appeared on a list of the easiest Genesis games to beat, so I played it and beat in a single play-through.

Review

4	6	6	6	5

Best Version: Genesis

— This section contains spoilers! —

Good

• The art, music, and play control are professionally made. Very unusual for a tie-in game.
• The falling block puzzle was very unexpected, but appreciated after so much platforming.

Bad

• The game is actually fairly challenging, they just give you too many hit points and too many lives.
• Like most tie-in games, the game has very little to do with the thing it's advertising. It's as though the developers already had a game in mind, and just pasted a McDonald's skin on it.

Ugly

• Nothing.

Media

Box Art

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  The original Japanese box art. It fits the cartoon nature of the game quite well, but doesn't give you an idea of what the game will be like.

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  The North American art is definitely superior, however Ronald looks like a serial killer.

Documentation

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  Manual - Japan.

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  Manual - USA.

Videos

Longplay.

Play Online

Genesis, Mega Drive (Europe), Mega Drive (Japan)

Representation

Strong female character?	Fail	The only explicitly female characters are Birdie (who is a damsel in distress) and a couple generic female enemies.
Bechdel test?	Fail	Women never speak to each other.
Strong person of color character?	Fail	Captain Crook and Professor, the only non-clown humans, are white.
Queer character?	Fail	There are no queer characters.

Titles

Language	Native	Transliteration	Translation
English	McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure
Japanese	マクドナルドトレジャーランドアドベンチャー	MakuDonarudo Toreja Rando Adobencha	McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure

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