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Grimace's Birthday

Homebrew Nintendo Game Boy Color cart. published 1 year ago by McDonald's

Listed in MAME

Grimace's Birthday screenshot

Grimace's Birthday © 2023 McDonald's.

The game sees Grimace, the McDonaldland tastebud going across town to round up his McDonaldland pals: the Hamburglar, Birdie the Early Bird, and the McNugget Buddies; in order to properly celebrate his birthday party at his favorite local McDonalds restaurant.

Grimace must reach the end of the stage by reaching the goal point of each stage before time runs out. The first two levels see Grimace skating, while he goes barefoot on the last two stages. Grimace gets points for performing skating tricks and popping balloons. If Grimace gets hurt, he will trip and fall on the ground, losing points along the way. Hurry and press UP to get back up! For each time Grimace falls, you will lose 200 points (400 in Hard mode).

Across the four levels in the game, there are 40 Grimace milkshakes to collect. They can be found spread across the entirety of all four levels.

The Darkside Grind and 50-50 Grinds are automatically performed when grinding on rails if playing on the Normal difficulty. If playing on the Hard difficulty, Grimace must manually grind using the UP and DOWN buttons or else he will fall off the rails. Game points are doubled if played on Hard.

TRIVIA

This is a officially published homebrew game by the McDonald's Corporation. It is not licensed or endorsed by Nintendo Co. Ltd or it's international divisions. This game was developed using GB Studio.

Released on June 12, 2023 as part of McDonald's currently ongoing promotion featuring the return of McDonaldland characters Grimace, Birdie the Early Bird, Hamburglar and the McNugget Buddies for the Grimace's Birthday ice cream shake product served at U.S. McDonald's restaurants since June 12, 2023.

On launch day (June 12, 2023), the game's website icon was based on Grimace's ingame sprite; however, the sprite's appearance beared a heavy resemblance to William Afton/Purple Guy from the Five Nights at Freddy's games! This was changed a day later after release.

UPDATES

Ver. 1.3
- Fixed dropping trough platforms after quitting as Bubble Grimace.
- Fixed sprite rendering over text box (during skateboard color unlock) in Totals Screen and Score Attack totals screen.
- Removed unintended camera shake in cake scenes.
- Fixed a bug where Grimace doesn't stack off a wire when hitting a bird in Freeskate / Score Attack.
- Fixed a camera glitch bug in the top area in Freeskate.
- Fixed a redirect bug in Freeskate 3 due to the variable not being set AFTER the camera movements.
- Set to remove Start Falling Platformer state on Title Screen, fixing the dreaded Visual Glitch FX bug.

Ver. 1.2

Ver. 1.1

Ver. 1.0

TIPS AND TRICKS

The game has an error screen if you try to play it on the original Game Boy models (original Game Boy, Super Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light), though using certain code modifications this can be bypassed.

SOURCES

Game's ROM.