"Jammin' With Mario" and "Mario's Driving Range" (lost promotional McDonald's browser games; 2006)
One of the toys used for the promotion.
Status: Lost
Jammin' With Mario and Mario's Driving Range are two flash browser games used to promote the Mario toy line in McDonald's Happy Meals in 2006.
Background
From September 1st to September 26th, 2006, McDonald's and Nintendo made a toy line to get kids active called "Take the Mario Challenge".[1] Kids were able to get Donkey Kong, Yoshi, and Mario themed toys in their happy meal. They mostly ranged from a Donkey Kong-themed flying disc, a Yoshi-themed pop and catch, and a Mario-themed ball. What made it most interesting though was from the official site. In the site, kids could play two Mario-themed browser games called Jammin' With Mario and Mario's Driving Range. Jammin' With Mario was about learning the Mario theme by typing keys on the keyboard while Mario's Driving Range is really unknown, mostly being believed to be a golf game or a driving game.[2]
Availabiliy
No footage or photos of the game exists online. Though, an archived website during the Mario promotion was found. Unfortunately, the page is non-functional as most links do not work at all.[3]
See Also
McDonalds
- McDonald's (partially lost early Japanese TV commercials for fast food chain; 1973-1976)
- Mcjuniorclub TV (partially found Nickelodeon Netherlands/McDonald's live-action short series; 2008)
- Ronald McDonald and the Adventure Machine (found McDonald's animated video; 1987)
- YumChums (partially lost British McDonald's TV commercials; 2004)
- Valerie's Family Fire Prevention (partially found McDonald's sponsored TV ads; 1987)
Mario
- BS Super Mario Collection (partially lost Satellaview broadcast versions of compilation platformer; 1997-1998)
- Mario Artist (lost builds of unreleased Nintendo 64DD games; 1999-2000)
- Mario's Castle (lost build of cancelled game on Nintendo's "Project Atlantis" handheld console; existence unconfirmed; 1995-1998)
- Mario Demo (lost Virtual Boy tech demo; 1994)
- Mario's Face (lost Nintendo DS tech demo; 2004)
- Mario's Mission Earth/Mario's Planet Quest (lost build of cancelled Super Nintendo edutainment game; existence unconfirmed; date unknown)
- Mario Motors (lost build of unreleased Nintendo DS racer; early 2000s)
- Mario Kart XXL (lost Game Boy Advance tech demo; 2004)
- Mario Takes America (lost build of cancelled Philips CD-i edutainment game; 1992-1994)
- New Super Mario Bros. (lost early builds of Nintendo DS 2D platformer; 2004-2006)
- New Super Mario Bros. Mii (lost Wii U tech demo; 2011)
- Super Mario 128 (lost build of cancelled GameCube/Wii game; 2000-2006)
- Super Mario 64 (partially found Spaceworld '95 demo of Nintendo 64 3D platformer; 1995)
- Super Mario Bros. 3 (lost Japanese prototype of NES platformer; 1987-1988)
- Super Mario Bros. (lost Commodore 64 port of NES platformer; existence unconfirmed; 1986)
- Super Mario Disk Version aka "Super Mario 64DD" (found unreleased Nintendo 64DD port of 3D platformer; 1999)
- Super Mario Galaxy (lost beta builds of Wii platformer; 2006-2007)
- Super Mario Kart R (partially found pre-release version of "Mario Kart 64"; 1995)
- Super Mario RPG 2 (lost pre-release version of "Paper Mario" Nintendo 64 role-playing game; late 1990s)
- Super Mario Spikers (lost build of cancelled Wii volleyball-wrestling sports game; 2007)
- Super Mario Sunshine (lost early builds for GameCube platformer; 2001-2002)
- Super Mario's Wacky Worlds (found prototype of cancelled CD-i game; 1993)
- Super Mario World: Mario Attack (lost Japanese arcade game; 1996)
- Super Mario World (partially found early build of Super Nintendo platformer; 1989)
- Super Paper Mario (lost build of unreleased original GameCube version of Wii side-scrolling platformer; 2006)
External Link
Reference
- ↑ Toymania "McDonald's: Take the Mario Challenge" Retrieved 10 Jan '24
- ↑ Nintendo unleashes Happy Meals, official site launched with fun Mario game Retrieved 10 Jan '24
- ↑ Archive site of the page Retrieved 10 Jan '24