''McDonald's Video Game'' is a

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published and developed by the Italy-based group

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in 2006. It is described as an "anti- advergame", meaning a satire of various companies and its business practices. It has also been classified as a

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or an editorial game by Ian Bogost. ''McDonald's Video Game'' is a satirical parody of the business practices of the corporate quick-service restaurant giant McDonald's, taking the guise of a tycoon-style business-simulation game. The game presents the player with four views: the farmland, the slaughterhouse, the restaurant and the corporate HQ. Through each of these views, decisions can be made which will affect the fate of the player's company. In the game, the player takes on the role of a McDonald's CEO by choosing whether or not to feed the player's cows genetically altered grain, plow over rainforests or feed the player's cattle to other cattle (a practice known to spread mad cow disease). The player can also choose advertising strategies and public official corruption to counteract opponents of the player's actions. Some choices within the game, such as the opportunity to demolish villages or bribe public officials, paint the corporation in a negative light. These aspects of the game are unflattering to McDonald's, who issued a statement saying that the game "has no association with McDonald's and is therefore a complete misrepresentation of our people and our values." On some websites (such as Kongregate), Molleindustria released a version of the game called ''Burger Tycoon'' which is exactly the same except that it eliminates all mention of McDonald's such as the franchise logo and a

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replacing the Ronald McDonald mascot. This was done in order to avoid copyright sanctions. All online instances of the game currently suffer a bug wherein the "Slaught-o-matic" does not produce patties when slaughtering cows, rendering the game unplayable. The only way to play is to download the game directly from Molleindustria's website itself. The game has been translated into nine languages: English, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Danish, Turkish, Portuguese, French and German.McDonald's Videogame splash page
accessed April 7, 2015.

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