McDonald’s Treasure Land Adventure is packed with delicious minerals

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McDonald’s is allegedly food. My tastebuds and my brain have a disagreement on this. My brain says that it both definitely is food, and it’s rad as heck. Meanwhile, my tastebuds say that while the brain thinks it’s being fed beef or chicken, whatever I’m running across them most certainly tastes nothing like those things. Delicious, maybe, like eating a stick of salted butter. However, no animal on earth is capable of producing such an enigmatic sensory blob of flavors.

Meanwhile, my stomach just keeps churning away at whatever I drop in there. It’s such a little trooper.

McDonald’s Treasure Land Adventure was a 1993 Sega Genesis game that is allegedly based on the McDonald’s brand. It is such a strange game and is just made stranger by the implication that it’s even adjacently related to alleged food. However, it was created by mythical developers Treasure, who also created Gunstar Heroes. That connection elevates what would normally just be an advergame into the realm of morbid curiosity.

There’s been a few games based on the McDonald’s property over the years, and most of them have nothing to do with food.

Sometimes, they star the corporate pushers, but rarely a hamburger. They all stink like some executive saw three ghosts one night. The ghost of fast food future told them that they’d one day be singled out as a major cause of a future obesity epidemic and that maybe they should stop targeting children for lifetime memberships. So, this executive tore into all the developers’ offices and said, “You know what? Let’s not make these games about eating delicious burgers. What about, I don’t know, gems instead?”

As a result, you play as Ronald McDonald, the world’s palest Scotsman, but there is absolutely no food anywhere