McDonald's eCrew Development Program (found McDonald's Japan Nintendo DS training game; 2010)
McDonald's eCrew Development Program is a game used by Japanese McDonald's to train their employees.
History
In 2010, McDonald's Japan collaborated with Nintendo to create eCrew Development Program, a Nintendo DS game to train new employees. The game received some media coverage, but it was only given to McDonald's Japan employees and required a password to play.
In December 2018, a thread was started on the AssemblerGames website by user Code1038, who had bought the game cartridge years earlier. Code1038 was stuck on a password entry page and could not progress past that point.
In mid-2020, a Yahoo Japan auction for the game appeared online. Its starting price was 400,000 yen (about $3,855 in US dollars), which was later lowered.
On November 18th, 2020, YouTuber Nick Robinson shared a video (below) where he revealed that he won the auction. He dumped the entire game onto the Internet Archive here.
Gallery
eCrew Development Program and eSmart game case.
eCrew Development Program cartridge and manual.
McDonald's special edition Nintendo DSi.
External Links
- Obscure Gamers forum thread on McDonald's eCrew Development Program. Retrieved 20 Nov '20
- Internet Archive page of the ROM. Retrieved 19 Nov '20