The fact there’s efforts to preserve even semi-obscure Happy Meal LCD games proves that game preservationists are fucking insane and worthy of respect.
A lot of them are engineers who enjoy tinkering anyway; it's a really productive side use of their time. Some even make careers out of it like MVG. It's really fucking awesome
I've heared that someone is even making a program that plays all the McDonald's Sonic the hedgehog/Sega LCD games which I think It's really cool and I'm looking forward for it! It will be at the sage 2022 Sonic fan game expo, in case you would like to check it out.
Yeah, it's pretty sad, it kind of makes me cringe when I buy my kids happy meals. I remember the toys they used to give me when I was a kid. Granted they were cheap toys, but they were toys.
@@StarkMaximum No that's a good way to give a kid life long trauma and make them have a panic attack for 12 hours. If the child is hyper the LSD would make them even more hyper because it literally amplifies your mood. LSD amplifies your emotions, boosts your senses, and it's super hard to sleep while high on it.
Also I feel that LCD games evolved into those novelty mini keychain arcades you see in Target and Walmart. Cheap 5 -10 dollar games with nostalgia mini arcade replicas. That's about it.
@DejaVoodooDoll yeah I got a space invaders keychain one that's pretty much one of these. I saw a pac-man one that was flatout the 90's LCD technology, no color overlays or screens.
The Burger King games actually have entirely different files for whether you’re playing on OGX or 360 with entirely different texture and model quality. They aren’t BC you can’t play the OGX version on 360 even if you force it in an emulator the discs however will automatically boot whichever version is needed for the console.
The Activision/Atari collection was a bit puzzeling. How many kids even knew what those games were then. Was it to entice parents to drag their kids there moreso? But Taco Bell did a similar thing giving away CD's with Atari arcade games on them around that time. I had a few of those, Taco Bell wasn't in the UK at the time, so a fan sent them over.
Oh wow I remember Taco Bell CD games! At least I think it was Taco Bell... looking up those Atari CDs you mentioned flashed back memories of that distinct CD packaging, but I remember there being other games... of which I don't remember.
Things I discovered as a parent, kids will play anything regardless if they know the history or not, to them its new and as long as its free (to them anyhow) they never seem to care, at least with mine anyhow. But about 5 years ago MacDonald did do something that was interesting to cater to to kids with mobile devices, I remember buying happy meals for my kids that came with your cheap plastic toy but has instructions about down loading an app and unlocking said character from the meal in to this MacDonald's game app, where you had to scan the whole toy (it had some kind of cut out deal to focus on) and it would snap a pic, then that person would be in this game or it would unlock the game this character was in, that was there "high tech" solution for this, but they only used it just until that promo was done then it was gone, so it was a hybrid toy so to speak as kids or people with out smart devices it had no effect on the toy but if you has a device it made the toy useless after you scanned it (like the kids could care less about it) it might have turned more wasteful in the end as Im guessing most parents would scan the toy then throw it away (I did after a while when my kids had no interest in it anymore i guess like most of the things)
I think that, realistically, they wanted to license existing video games and those were the cheapest options. In practice, I think the people that got the most out of that promotion are the children of the people that played those games when they were new. I was young enough to be interested in LCD games and fast food toys, but also old enough to have my own money and an old 2600 at home.
I remember getting 2 of the 1st wave of mcdonalds sega lcd games they were the super monkey ball game and the tails game I would love to get hold of the Activision lcd games
@@DoswarePictures Tiger handhelds were $20 bucks at Toys R us or KB toys, $10 if you got em on clearance. Happy Meals were like $3-5. So not only you got a meal but a toy or game. I know because I was collecting those Mortal Kombat tiger games.
I agree quite honestly I think the Spyro ones were amazing, while the crash ones weren’t with exception of the racing one. I also think it’s the only FPS lcd game which is cool
I had the pencilcase that came with the yellow chaos emerald and lost it sadly. As for the LCD games, I saw the heroes line but I was too young and my parents didn't buy them at the time so I completely missed those.
2:00 “The burgers weren’t actually falling, they were giving the illusion by lighting the right parts of the screen at the right time” Yep, that’s... how animation works.
I mean, not usually. Generally that's how _display_ works, and how hand-drawn tv animation works, but in a game, the actual sprite is being told to move in a certain XY direction at a certain speed, and it gets drawn per frame, so.. this is definitely distinct from that concept.
Fun fact: the kid who got the happy meal Sega silver lcd handheld didnt get Sonic Mega collection plus because the mom were confused of how to get it, so they never got it
I remember having the Knuckles Soccer one. I used ot until the battery died, i could say it was my first videogame "console". Thanks for the nostalgia man, great video.
Last time I was at my family house, I think I had four of the Sonic ones kicking around. I've occasionally thought it would be cool to program a game with art style like LCD games, maybe with a little genre deconstruction with characters "breaking out" of the LCD mode or going off-duty or something.
Sadly I missed on the Sonic Adventure ones that most of my friends got (oddly enough most of them got the Shadow one). But I did get the Tails football one from the Heroes batch, which I spent hours playing. As nice as those were I prefered the Nestle cereal partnership with Sega and Empire, where you got full game CDs like Crazy Taxi and Starsky & Hutch.
Dude you've hit me so hard in the nostalgia with this! I had 4 of these LCD games and they were all Sonic games! I had the Knuckles emerald collecting one, the Shadow Rail skating one, the Shadow basketball one and the Sonic pipeline one with the flippy top! I know this didn't introduce me to Sonic since at the same time the Sonic X series was streaming, but it definitely boosted my love for this franchise!
I remember the party rooms in the movie theatre near me (Cineplex Yorkdale). You'd get a slice of pizza, a slice of cake and an LCD game. After eating and playing, you'd watch a movie with all of your friends. That's how I was introduced to LCD games.
Dang, that pulled up some deep memories I never thought I’d think of again. I had one of the football ones, one of the spiro booklet style ones, and one of the figure skating ones. I don’t really remember much about them as I was pretty young at the time, probably between the ages of 3-5 but I do remember the skating one and the spiro ones being fun at the time. They were definitely my introduction to gaming, and I have to say, they took me pretty far. Glad to see you made a great video on this! Keep up the great videos and reviews! Cheers!
Ah...the simpler times, as someone growing up in the early 2000's I definitely remember being addicted to those LCD games at one point, I don't remember what ones I had, but such a shame that I completely forgot about these until the TH-cam algorithms recommended me this video! Also, those were some absolutely bizarre ads, lol!
I remember at the play land they had at the McDonald’s, a group of the kids had hoarded a lot of lcd games in a part of the top floor within the play land. We Code named it the arcade and you would probably spend time there if you were bored or went alone. It was mainly the sports ones but I remember after all the battery’s died they just threw the husks down into the caged off area next to the top of the slide. We hoped for new lcd games to replace them but the day never came.
I have a plastic pale with Olympic McDonald's branding from 1984 that my happy meal came in, and some trucks from around that same era from Happy Meals.
the Spyro and Crash Promotion was amazing the games were more advanced than most lcds I'd played and the box was probably the only happy meal box I tried to keep as the artwork was great and it popped out.
I have a VIVID memory of finding the green one on the floor of my cousins garden. I don't think I even knew what video games where at that point, so this was, incredible. Such an incredible memory.
You'd always find at least one at the flea-market. I love how clunky these are, solif chunks of plastic with tiny lcds and on-board beeps and boops. The sheer nostalgia in these things
I have the entire 8 set of the Crash and Spyro Mcdonles LCD games and years later I rebought them again in there plastic bags and the US Happy Meal box. Remember those as a kid, the Carls Jr Crash and Spyro toys were my favorite ones, still got them to this day
Whoa I had no idea so many odd sets existed! I have most of the Sonic ones and remember the Crash ones but everything else was new to me. It's too bad there were never any Nintendo sets, it really feels like a missed opportunity.
I remember being extremely mad when my mom wouldn't tell the drive thru person to get me a boy toy (ya know the boy themed toys) and I'd get a girl toy instead. I wish that was my biggest worry nowadays!
Everytime I hear early 2000s my brain goes, ''Yeah, that was some time ago, but not that long ago.'' then I remember that it's 20 years ago.. And I feel old.
@@KairuHakubi unfortunately my location removed the ball pit before I could remember it, but even outside of McDonald’s the feeling of a ball pit just couldn’t be beat!
The first set of Crash LCD's were given out in 2004 throughout various regions except North America or the UK, making them relatively hard to find. I managed to buy an entire sealed set from Germany for preservation reasons, but I'm not entirely sure how to go about "porting" them. I have yet to open them. The 2nd set was specifically done as a worldwide promo throughout 2005 (also a McDonald's press release accidentally revealed Spyro Shadow Legacy before it was officially announced, go figure). . I have good memories of that promotion, going to McDonald's and seeing banners or Happy Meal boxes with Crash and Spyro... good times. I am currently recollecting that set with only 2 more to acquire. It's funny though, at one point in time I did own all the Sonic/SEGA, ESPN, Activision and Crash/Spyro LCD game sets. They were quite popular with kids too; with more memories of me and friends on the playground playing with the various Sonic ones and trading them. I miss the simple times.
10:10 I remember the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro ones. I remember those came here (Venezuela), and my little brother and I had several of those. Clarify that at that time we had no idea what characters they were, and that currently we lost those LCD games.
I remember the Sonic LCD games. Me and my brothers had the Knuckles football one, the racing one and the Green Jumping game. The Knuckles one had buttons with football ball textures.
I have a very vague memory of having that Sonic LCD game from 2003, with my brother, sister and I playing with them. It’s so bizarre because that’s literally the only thing I remember from that specific holiday other than vaguely remembering being in some specific locations in Greece. I do have more memories of having a Spongebob one, which was a traffic avoiding game similar to the other Sonic one.
I had a spyro one as a kid that was like a dungeon exploration thing. It was my FAVORITE, and I even dug it up a good while back and got to play it one last time just before the batteries died
11:05 I had the orange skateboard one when I was like 5 or 6. You switched to different lanes to avoid obstacles. For some reason it was really fun. They really need to bring back these little games in happy meals because even though we have smartphones that can let us play any game in the world there's a novelty to owning a tiny little plastic LCD game that just can't be replicated with phones.
I remember first seeing commercials for the 2003 Sonic set. It was the summer, and I was in swimming lessons at the time, and all I could think about was going to McDonald's afterwords to get Sonic games. Still have the full set, along with the full set of the Crash / Spyro ones.
I had both a McDonalds and Burger king very close to my house as a kid and I have vivid memories of playing these either in my backyard or at a day camp I went to as a kid. This video brought back a lot of pretty early memories since at the time of most of these I was about 3-5 years old or so.
I have two of the sypro games and I was obsessed with the one where you look around a maze for gems, I played it pretty much every car ride lol. I never even knew there were Crash games in that set till I got older
I had a Guitar Hero LCD game but not prompted by a food company. It was in 2008 and featured songs from GH1 and 2. I had a couple of these mostly from the first Sonic wave (except shadow and super monkey ball), the Billy Hatcher, possibly an Activision one, and the trophy from figure skating.
LCD games made a comeback in the mid-2010's in retail locations. Pac-Man and Tetris ones are very easy to find at Walmart, Barnes & Noble, et cetera now.
In the Netherlands the Macdonald’s lcd games have a battery covers(law probably forces them to) but it’s designed in a way that it’s almost impossible to replace because of an plastic casing around the battery. You can remove the plastic casing and replace the battery but the battery will then fall inside the toy
Omg I owned a good majority of the digi sportz set. I had all but baseball and whatever the yellow one was. I loved these things and gave me so much joy.
God, those Sonic games are an injection of nostalgia. Living in Australia, a lot of these didn't seem to get over here (that Xbox one looks completely foreign to me), but this was still a great stroll down memory lane. So thank you.
I might have to get one or two of these online. I had the digi-sports tennis game when I was about 7, and it was actually motion-activated, and you swung the racket by moving the toy. Pretty advanced for a kids meal toy. I don't know where it went.
7:07 Oh I had a SpongeBob one of those. I believe that set came out in UK McDonalds in 2007. I think they even released a DVD of 2 episodes with that set (or at least in a similar timeframe)
A DVD in a happy meal? Well actually that’s not unfamiliar to me. From Wendy’s was an I Spy PC game and a Clifford DVD puzzle game which I no longer have. And from Chick-Fil-A were CDs containing music from Between the Lions and Veggietales. And Dreamworks shorts and episodes from cereal, which I have the Kung Fu Panda version.
I remember playing a few Digisports as a kid, and I currently own some of them in addition to Barnstormer (I purchased the later at a flea market during a family trip in Florida).
My god this video is so nostalgia inducing. I swear I remember there being a set of Game Boy like Nintendo LCD handhelds and there was one with a Donkey Kong game on it.
I had that Sonic lcd game in the thumbnail as a kid. It's probably the most simplistic "game" I have ever played, you could beat it by just constantly smashing the one button without even looking.
That Zenith TV set is lit AF. My CRT is a Sharp. I got it before vultures and scammers started selling them at massive prices as 'gaming TVs'. That's a thing now, if you didn't know.
I miss these so much! I had the Tails and Super Monkey Ball ones. Maybe Basket Ball, Tennis, and the Tails one with a cover. Not sure, but they seem so familiar. I'm almost positive I had those last 3. Oh, and the lie detector Shrek toy too. I forgot that ever existed lol. And that second Crash Bandicoot one that's like a book. Yeah, I'm just going on a nostalgia trip, remembering things that have long since been forgotten.
I remember pretending like the first Shadow one was a Digivice. I was so sad when the battery eventually died... Shadow, Sonic and the Monkey Ball toy were some of my favourite electronic toys back then, and now I somewhat regret throwing them away without at least trying to replace the batteries - or talking my dad into giving it a go. Still, it was fun to see the whole lot again, as well as some toys I do still own, like those robo pets.
I remember having most of the first sonic and espn sets, but the one that really stuck with me was monkeyball. There was just something about the yellow casing and cute swirly ears that drew me in
Damn, I think I still have all 8 of those Crash and Spyro "booklet" games, as you called 'em. I remember having some great fun with a cousin back in the day when neither of us had an actual videogame console yet, good times.
I should note that I remember getting a Plants VS Zombies lcd game sometime in 2014. Even if they had stopped making full sets of them, lcd games were still being packed into kids meals during the 2010’s. That particular one came from Burger King and it was a game where you played as Peashooter on the left side of the screen, trying to stop the onslaught of zombies coming from the right side. Really fun little game, that was.
I personally still have that ESPN Tony Hawk one, one of those Guitar Hero ones, and the Xbox handle wheel... thing. _SPACE BLASTER_ I'm surprised how few of these I ever got, or were even aware of. That Billy Hatcher one would be a charmer, I'm sure. In any case, between Radica, Tiger gadgets and these things in Kids meals and cereals, I'm glad to see this kind of thing being discussed.
I remember having the Super Monkey Ball one. And I think the Sonic driving one? I also remember playing a bunch of these at my cousin’s house. Particularly the ESPN ones and Billy Hatcher. Weird what kept me occupied as a kid.
I remember my brother and I got a few LCD games from Wonka candy, one was a skee ball game with a Sweet Tarts dispenser, and the other was some other sports game with Nerds
I had a few of these as a kid and got waaaaay too many hours of entertainment out of them. Especially the green Sonic one. I've still got it buried somewhere...
9:22 funnily enough, that advert is quite well known in the Crash community, people like to call the version of Cortex in it "Fake Cortex" a la Fake Crash. It's likely just less well known since it has less character models and is for a relatively less popular and much less memed IP.
4:05 I LOVED these games! Sneak King I think was my favourite, but I don't remember the other ones well enough to judge. Where did you find the dancing girl animation for the end credits for some of your videos?
Sweet video! You know thanks to this video this memory came back to me again, While it was not a Fast Food LCD toy I do remember having a High School Musical 2 LCD game at stores around 2011 even though I The only Disney channel thing I liked around 2011 was Phineas and Ferb odd choice of an LCD game to get since I had a DSi for 1 year at that point
I have the Monkey ball LCD game from McDonald's (2004) and it actually has a battery cover on the back so you can replace the button cell. It is the only McDonald's toy I know of that has the ability to replace the battery.
4:42 Also notice how it uses the modern Burger King logo. That made its debut in 1999. Also, I assume they replaced the bombs with burgers as some sort of subtle (?) Burger King product placement, or just a reference to them specializing in burgers, which makes more sense than censorship.
11:04 Me and my sisters each had one of those sports games. I had the bowling one, and my sisters both had the soccer and skateboard ones if I remember correctly.
the mcdonalds near me started doing mini versions of classic board games. it ruined my friendships but now I have tiny hungry hippos form all the happy meals i got.
I actually got a Gaming system in my happy meal. It wasn't an LCD one, it was a water one. I remember you had to guide mario through a wasteland, and I loved it.
I had a lot of LCD Games back then, I used to call them "Game Boys", but after I got my first GBA I noticed the difference between the systems *and was never the same since*. My family had the entire Sonic set, I still own the Sonic and Cream LCD games, but I don't know what happen to the rest of them, and I recall that one of my Crash games was still with my stuff, but I'm too lazy to check it out now. - V.D.
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The fact there’s efforts to preserve even semi-obscure Happy Meal LCD games proves that game preservationists are fucking insane and worthy of respect.
Hey Cicabeot1. Didn't expect to see you here.
Now that I know that these exist I need some of them I used to have 2 but they broke
11:59 I HAVE 2 OF THESE BUT 1 OF THEM BROKE I AM SADNESS
A lot of them are engineers who enjoy tinkering anyway; it's a really productive side use of their time. Some even make careers out of it like MVG. It's really fucking awesome
I've heared that someone is even making a program that plays all the McDonald's Sonic the hedgehog/Sega LCD games which I think It's really cool and I'm looking forward for it! It will be at the sage 2022 Sonic fan game expo, in case you would like to check it out.
Man I still can't believe that LCD games actually came with my happy meal back then, and now its a piece of paper with a face
I have mine from the 90's it's a spring loaded Sonic that pops out of a fire swirl 🔥and rolls. Still holds up
i've seen more cheap figurines and keychains that connect to a mobile app than anything
Yeah, it's pretty sad, it kind of makes me cringe when I buy my kids happy meals. I remember the toys they used to give me when I was a kid. Granted they were cheap toys, but they were toys.
Good old times
I haven't seen a McDonald's toy in the last 15 years or so. How are they now?
Oh my.....I have that Crash dancing game and Spyro one. Good ole' memories.
Man I wish I still knew where my Crash Dancing game went.
I haven't played it in 13 years...
I had just the dancing one. Can’t remember a thing about it but it’s probably in the house somewhere
As yes scout tf2
I had the one in the thumbnail. The sonic one. Clicked the video immediately
Burger King is bettter
First glance I read that as "Kids Meal LSD"
What a trip that would be.
That certainly is a way to calm down a hyperactive child I guess.
@@StarkMaximum No that's a good way to give a kid life long trauma and make them have a panic attack for 12 hours. If the child is hyper the LSD would make them even more hyper because it literally amplifies your mood.
LSD amplifies your emotions, boosts your senses, and it's super hard to sleep while high on it.
literally 💀
@@citizenvulpes4562 r/wooosh
That would be annoying during a car trip
Also I feel that LCD games evolved into those novelty mini keychain arcades you see in Target and Walmart. Cheap 5 -10 dollar games with nostalgia mini arcade replicas. That's about it.
@DejaVoodooDoll yeah I got a space invaders keychain one that's pretty much one of these. I saw a pac-man one that was flatout the 90's LCD technology, no color overlays or screens.
The Burger King games actually have entirely different files for whether you’re playing on OGX or 360 with entirely different texture and model quality.
They aren’t BC you can’t play the OGX version on 360 even if you force it in an emulator the discs however will automatically boot whichever version is needed for the console.
Interesting!
There also Region locked so only work on US consoles.
You just watched Scott the Woz's new video too didn't you?
@@unisonproto I knew that before that video but I KNEW that this comment was coming because I DID watch that video lmao
@@TheRealAmericanMan is OGX the new official shorthand for referring to the original Xbox (ala PSX -> original model of PS1)?
The Activision/Atari collection was a bit puzzeling. How many kids even knew what those games were then. Was it to entice parents to drag their kids there moreso?
But Taco Bell did a similar thing giving away CD's with Atari arcade games on them around that time. I had a few of those, Taco Bell wasn't in the UK at the time, so a fan sent them over.
Oh wow I remember Taco Bell CD games! At least I think it was Taco Bell... looking up those Atari CDs you mentioned flashed back memories of that distinct CD packaging, but I remember there being other games... of which I don't remember.
@@FrameRater i remember having centipede, missile command and possibly lunar lander
Things I discovered as a parent, kids will play anything regardless if they know the history or not, to them its new and as long as its free (to them anyhow) they never seem to care, at least with mine anyhow. But about 5 years ago MacDonald did do something that was interesting to cater to to kids with mobile devices, I remember buying happy meals for my kids that came with your cheap plastic toy but has instructions about down loading an app and unlocking said character from the meal in to this MacDonald's game app, where you had to scan the whole toy (it had some kind of cut out deal to focus on) and it would snap a pic, then that person would be in this game or it would unlock the game this character was in, that was there "high tech" solution for this, but they only used it just until that promo was done then it was gone, so it was a hybrid toy so to speak as kids or people with out smart devices it had no effect on the toy but if you has a device it made the toy useless after you scanned it (like the kids could care less about it) it might have turned more wasteful in the end as Im guessing most parents would scan the toy then throw it away (I did after a while when my kids had no interest in it anymore i guess like most of the things)
I think that, realistically, they wanted to license existing video games and those were the cheapest options.
In practice, I think the people that got the most out of that promotion are the children of the people that played those games when they were new. I was young enough to be interested in LCD games and fast food toys, but also old enough to have my own money and an old 2600 at home.
I remember getting 2 of the 1st wave of mcdonalds sega lcd games they were the super monkey ball game and the tails game I would love to get hold of the Activision lcd games
Oh man I used to have these. Imagine that, these were when you were TOO POOR to afford Tiger Handheld games.
Those words hit hard man
Wait, how much did tiger handhelds cost? And how much did a happy meal cost?
@@DoswarePictures Tiger handhelds were $20 bucks at Toys R us or KB toys, $10 if you got em on clearance. Happy Meals were like $3-5. So not only you got a meal but a toy or game. I know because I was collecting those Mortal Kombat tiger games.
@@HipsterBlackMetalOfficial ahh. The real poverty video games.
Im still really poor
the spyro dungeon crawling lcd game from mcdonalds was so fire
Hey I know you, I listened to your music. The TH-cam algorithm has brought me fortune.
I never understood it as a kid. I was a stupid kid
This and the crash bandicoot racing one were so good
it was! I bought one off ebay recently and restored it, it plays very arcade-like. I'll do a review someday
I agree quite honestly I think the Spyro ones were amazing, while the crash ones weren’t with exception of the racing one. I also think it’s the only FPS lcd game which is cool
I had a Shadow the Hedgehog LCD game that came with a Happy Meal when I was a kid. Sadly, I lost it.
Mine doesn't work anymore
I haven't seen my Crash Dancing game in years...
Where's that DAMN LCD toy!?
was it the hokey one?
I had the pencilcase that came with the yellow chaos emerald and lost it sadly. As for the LCD games, I saw the heroes line but I was too young and my parents didn't buy them at the time so I completely missed those.
2:00 “The burgers weren’t actually falling, they were giving the illusion by lighting the right parts of the screen at the right time” Yep, that’s... how animation works.
NOOOO the burgers WERE falling
I mean, not usually. Generally that's how _display_ works, and how hand-drawn tv animation works, but in a game, the actual sprite is being told to move in a certain XY direction at a certain speed, and it gets drawn per frame, so.. this is definitely distinct from that concept.
Fun fact: the kid who got the happy meal Sega silver lcd handheld didnt get Sonic Mega collection plus because the mom were confused of how to get it, so they never got it
rbuh
That's a sad story. Lol
I remember this weird KFC lcd game I saw when I was young. It's still engraved in my memory.
What did you do in the game?
@@theskyfoogle1511 I don't remember much, but you play as a robot bringing food to the tables.
The ones made for Crash , Spyro , and Sonic were definitely some of my childhood favorites.
I remember having the Knuckles Soccer one. I used ot until the battery died, i could say it was my first videogame "console". Thanks for the nostalgia man, great video.
i thought i was so slick as a kid being grounded and hiding one of the sonic games under my pillow
Omg i was the same
Last time I was at my family house, I think I had four of the Sonic ones kicking around. I've occasionally thought it would be cool to program a game with art style like LCD games, maybe with a little genre deconstruction with characters "breaking out" of the LCD mode or going off-duty or something.
I always made it a priority to check what next month fast food toys are , its brings me a ton of excitement.
I used to do that
Same
me too
You guys could do that? We never had such a thing.
Oh yeah, I actually had a Crash dancing one, and the Xbox one that looks like a motorcycle cockpit.
These were actually pretty nice as a kid.
Sadly I missed on the Sonic Adventure ones that most of my friends got (oddly enough most of them got the Shadow one). But I did get the Tails football one from the Heroes batch, which I spent hours playing.
As nice as those were I prefered the Nestle cereal partnership with Sega and Empire, where you got full game CDs like Crazy Taxi and Starsky & Hutch.
Dude you've hit me so hard in the nostalgia with this!
I had 4 of these LCD games and they were all Sonic games!
I had the Knuckles emerald collecting one, the Shadow Rail skating one, the Shadow basketball one and the Sonic pipeline one with the flippy top!
I know this didn't introduce me to Sonic since at the same time the Sonic X series was streaming, but it definitely boosted my love for this franchise!
I remember the party rooms in the movie theatre near me (Cineplex Yorkdale). You'd get a slice of pizza, a slice of cake and an LCD game. After eating and playing, you'd watch a movie with all of your friends. That's how I was introduced to LCD games.
Dang, that pulled up some deep memories I never thought I’d think of again. I had one of the football ones, one of the spiro booklet style ones, and one of the figure skating ones. I don’t really remember much about them as I was pretty young at the time, probably between the ages of 3-5 but I do remember the skating one and the spiro ones being fun at the time. They were definitely my introduction to gaming, and I have to say, they took me pretty far. Glad to see you made a great video on this! Keep up the great videos and reviews! Cheers!
I really like this video! I can’t wait to check out your others. I’d love to see more retrospectives of obscure early 2000’s memories!
0:23 To be fair Mugman does that at the start of the fight in-game too.
Ah...the simpler times, as someone growing up in the early 2000's I definitely remember being addicted to those LCD games at one point, I don't remember what ones I had, but such a shame that I completely forgot about these until the TH-cam algorithms recommended me this video!
Also, those were some absolutely bizarre ads, lol!
Do you still have those?
I remember at the play land they had at the McDonald’s, a group of the kids had hoarded a lot of lcd games in a part of the top floor within the play land. We Code named it the arcade and you would probably spend time there if you were bored or went alone. It was mainly the sports ones but I remember after all the battery’s died they just threw the husks down into the caged off area next to the top of the slide. We hoped for new lcd games to replace them but the day never came.
I hope they bring these back in the near future, the gameplay was actually quite enjoyable
Today’s kids will never understand the incredible toys that used to come from kids meals
I have a plastic pale with Olympic McDonald's branding from 1984 that my happy meal came in, and some trucks from around that same era from Happy Meals.
the Spyro and Crash Promotion was amazing the games were more advanced than most lcds I'd played and the box was probably the only happy meal box I tried to keep as the artwork was great and it popped out.
I remember having a sonic i think rail grinding game like this.
So the shadow grinder game?
I have a VIVID memory of finding the green one on the floor of my cousins garden. I don't think I even knew what video games where at that point, so this was, incredible. Such an incredible memory.
You'd always find at least one at the flea-market. I love how clunky these are, solif chunks of plastic with tiny lcds and on-board beeps and boops. The sheer nostalgia in these things
I have the entire 8 set of the Crash and Spyro Mcdonles LCD games and years later I rebought them again in there plastic bags and the US Happy Meal box. Remember those as a kid, the Carls Jr Crash and Spyro toys were my favorite ones, still got them to this day
Whoa I had no idea so many odd sets existed! I have most of the Sonic ones and remember the Crash ones but everything else was new to me. It's too bad there were never any Nintendo sets, it really feels like a missed opportunity.
At least there’s holographic cards. I remember having one with Mario running through SM64 Peach’s Castle. I don’t remember where I got it from though.
I remember being extremely mad when my mom wouldn't tell the drive thru person to get me a boy toy (ya know the boy themed toys) and I'd get a girl toy instead. I wish that was my biggest worry nowadays!
I think I'd ask for the girl toys myself, since pink's my favorite color now. :P
I used to have the Crash water skiing, the purple Spyro one at 10:15, Tails Skypatrol, and the Guitar Hero red guitar. Brings back so many memories
Everytime I hear early 2000s my brain goes, ''Yeah, that was some time ago, but not that long ago.'' then I remember that it's 20 years ago.. And I feel old.
I was wondering mine was so different. Then I realized I live in the UK. So mine had the cool silver design.
I was never bored, I had the luxury of the play place.
However the toys were the reason I went to any other fast food restaurant so...
Oh man, with a ballpit?
Remember how you'd still feel the sensation of all the balls long after you left?
@@KairuHakubi unfortunately my location removed the ball pit before I could remember it, but even outside of McDonald’s the feeling of a ball pit just couldn’t be beat!
The first set of Crash LCD's were given out in 2004 throughout various regions except North America or the UK, making them relatively hard to find. I managed to buy an entire sealed set from Germany for preservation reasons, but I'm not entirely sure how to go about "porting" them. I have yet to open them. The 2nd set was specifically done as a worldwide promo throughout 2005 (also a McDonald's press release accidentally revealed Spyro Shadow Legacy before it was officially announced, go figure). . I have good memories of that promotion, going to McDonald's and seeing banners or Happy Meal boxes with Crash and Spyro... good times. I am currently recollecting that set with only 2 more to acquire. It's funny though, at one point in time I did own all the Sonic/SEGA, ESPN, Activision and Crash/Spyro LCD game sets. They were quite popular with kids too; with more memories of me and friends on the playground playing with the various Sonic ones and trading them. I miss the simple times.
10:10 I remember the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro ones. I remember those came here (Venezuela), and my little brother and I had several of those. Clarify that at that time we had no idea what characters they were, and that currently we lost those LCD games.
These introduced me to crash and Spyro so it worked and man am I happy it was
I remember the Sonic LCD games. Me and my brothers had the Knuckles football one, the racing one and the Green Jumping game. The Knuckles one had buttons with football ball textures.
So nostalgic, I still have my sonic LCD and it still works!
I'd be interested to see a video about those Tamagotchis you own
I have a very vague memory of having that Sonic LCD game from 2003, with my brother, sister and I playing with them. It’s so bizarre because that’s literally the only thing I remember from that specific holiday other than vaguely remembering being in some specific locations in Greece.
I do have more memories of having a Spongebob one, which was a traffic avoiding game similar to the other Sonic one.
I had a spyro one as a kid that was like a dungeon exploration thing. It was my FAVORITE, and I even dug it up a good while back and got to play it one last time just before the batteries died
11:05 I had the orange skateboard one when I was like 5 or 6. You switched to different lanes to avoid obstacles. For some reason it was really fun.
They really need to bring back these little games in happy meals because even though we have smartphones that can let us play any game in the world there's a novelty to owning a tiny little plastic LCD game that just can't be replicated with phones.
I remember first seeing commercials for the 2003 Sonic set. It was the summer, and I was in swimming lessons at the time, and all I could think about was going to McDonald's afterwords to get Sonic games. Still have the full set, along with the full set of the Crash / Spyro ones.
I had both a McDonalds and Burger king very close to my house as a kid and I have vivid memories of playing these either in my backyard or at a day camp I went to as a kid. This video brought back a lot of pretty early memories since at the time of most of these I was about 3-5 years old or so.
I have two of the sypro games and I was obsessed with the one where you look around a maze for gems, I played it pretty much every car ride lol. I never even knew there were Crash games in that set till I got older
When I was a kid, those LCDs were more entertaining than now, being grown up and getting bored with any game I have.
I had a Guitar Hero LCD game but not prompted by a food company. It was in 2008 and featured songs from GH1 and 2.
I had a couple of these mostly from the first Sonic wave (except shadow and super monkey ball), the Billy Hatcher, possibly an Activision one, and the trophy from figure skating.
LCD games made a comeback in the mid-2010's in retail locations. Pac-Man and Tetris ones are very easy to find at Walmart, Barnes & Noble, et cetera now.
In the Netherlands the Macdonald’s lcd games have a battery covers(law probably forces them to) but it’s designed in a way that it’s almost impossible to replace because of an plastic casing around the battery. You can remove the plastic casing and replace the battery but the battery will then fall inside the toy
That Crash Bandicoot game with the picture of him disco dancing on the cover dug up some forgotten memories!
LCD did drop price quite a bit around 1980. I remember LCD watches suddenly became cheap around that time, like LCD watch with a tank of gas cheap.
Heh I use to work at McD and I got the entire display cabinet worth. Still have them all :)
Omg I owned a good majority of the digi sportz set. I had all but baseball and whatever the yellow one was. I loved these things and gave me so much joy.
I loves how you could see what was the next toy at the bottom and the bakugan toys were the best for me
9:16 I remember having this exact crash bandicoot racing game as a kid. Wow it’s nice to see one again. So nostalgic
God, those Sonic games are an injection of nostalgia. Living in Australia, a lot of these didn't seem to get over here (that Xbox one looks completely foreign to me), but this was still a great stroll down memory lane. So thank you.
I might have to get one or two of these online. I had the digi-sports tennis game when I was about 7, and it was actually motion-activated, and you swung the racket by moving the toy. Pretty advanced for a kids meal toy. I don't know where it went.
7:07 Oh I had a SpongeBob one of those. I believe that set came out in UK McDonalds in 2007. I think they even released a DVD of 2 episodes with that set (or at least in a similar timeframe)
A DVD in a happy meal? Well actually that’s not unfamiliar to me. From Wendy’s was an I Spy PC game and a Clifford DVD puzzle game which I no longer have. And from Chick-Fil-A were CDs containing music from Between the Lions and Veggietales. And Dreamworks shorts and episodes from cereal, which I have the Kung Fu Panda version.
That green Sonic runner is my favorite one of these of all time. I used to obsessively eat McDonalds and BL to get these as a kid
I remember playing a few Digisports as a kid, and I currently own some of them in addition to Barnstormer (I purchased the later at a flea market during a family trip in Florida).
just unlocked one of my earliest memories oop
My god this video is so nostalgia inducing. I swear I remember there being a set of Game Boy like Nintendo LCD handhelds and there was one with a Donkey Kong game on it.
I had that Sonic lcd game in the thumbnail as a kid. It's probably the most simplistic "game" I have ever played, you could beat it by just constantly smashing the one button without even looking.
That Zenith TV set is lit AF. My CRT is a Sharp. I got it before vultures and scammers started selling them at massive prices as 'gaming TVs'. That's a thing now, if you didn't know.
I have a Sylvania, which I got from a relative.
I miss these so much! I had the Tails and Super Monkey Ball ones. Maybe Basket Ball, Tennis, and the Tails one with a cover. Not sure, but they seem so familiar. I'm almost positive I had those last 3. Oh, and the lie detector Shrek toy too. I forgot that ever existed lol. And that second Crash Bandicoot one that's like a book. Yeah, I'm just going on a nostalgia trip, remembering things that have long since been forgotten.
I remember pretending like the first Shadow one was a Digivice. I was so sad when the battery eventually died... Shadow, Sonic and the Monkey Ball toy were some of my favourite electronic toys back then, and now I somewhat regret throwing them away without at least trying to replace the batteries - or talking my dad into giving it a go. Still, it was fun to see the whole lot again, as well as some toys I do still own, like those robo pets.
I remember having most of the first sonic and espn sets, but the one that really stuck with me was monkeyball. There was just something about the yellow casing and cute swirly ears that drew me in
Damn, I think I still have all 8 of those Crash and Spyro "booklet" games, as you called 'em. I remember having some great fun with a cousin back in the day when neither of us had an actual videogame console yet, good times.
I should note that I remember getting a Plants VS Zombies lcd game sometime in 2014. Even if they had stopped making full sets of them, lcd games were still being packed into kids meals during the 2010’s. That particular one came from Burger King and it was a game where you played as Peashooter on the left side of the screen, trying to stop the onslaught of zombies coming from the right side. Really fun little game, that was.
I remember being really young and having a Shark Tale LCD game. One of my earliest "gaming" memories.
Omg the green Sonic game was my favorite, hopping over big hills, I loved it
I personally still have that ESPN Tony Hawk one, one of those Guitar Hero ones, and the Xbox handle wheel... thing. _SPACE BLASTER_ I'm surprised how few of these I ever got, or were even aware of. That Billy Hatcher one would be a charmer, I'm sure. In any case, between Radica, Tiger gadgets and these things in Kids meals and cereals, I'm glad to see this kind of thing being discussed.
I remember having the Super Monkey Ball one. And I think the Sonic driving one? I also remember playing a bunch of these at my cousin’s house. Particularly the ESPN ones and Billy Hatcher. Weird what kept me occupied as a kid.
I remember my brother and I got a few LCD games from Wonka candy, one was a skee ball game with a Sweet Tarts dispenser, and the other was some other sports game with Nerds
I have all but the Knuckles football game from the first run. I absolutely loved them.
5:36 The US actually got a few of the gold variants... I think they were used for a contest where you could win a copy of Sonic Adventure DX...
I had a few of these as a kid and got waaaaay too many hours of entertainment out of them. Especially the green Sonic one. I've still got it buried somewhere...
9:22 funnily enough, that advert is quite well known in the Crash community, people like to call the version of Cortex in it "Fake Cortex" a la Fake Crash. It's likely just less well known since it has less character models and is for a relatively less popular and much less memed IP.
4:05 I LOVED these games! Sneak King I think was my favourite, but I don't remember the other ones well enough to judge.
Where did you find the dancing girl animation for the end credits for some of your videos?
Sweet video! You know thanks to this video this memory came back to me again, While it was not a Fast Food LCD toy I do remember having a High School Musical 2 LCD game at stores around 2011 even though I The only Disney channel thing I liked around 2011 was Phineas and Ferb odd choice of an LCD game to get since I had a DSi for 1 year at that point
I have the Monkey ball LCD game from McDonald's (2004) and it actually has a battery cover on the back so you can replace the button cell. It is the only McDonald's toy I know of that has the ability to replace the battery.
Wait, fisherprice made these LCD games? That doesn’t make any sense because it’s a toddler toy company! That’s like Colgate selling lasagna!
This brought me back I remember all of these😭😭😭and I still got my xbox watch from the cereal box
I love your channel dude, I never know what obscure crap you're going to go into unnecessary detail about next!
4:42 Also notice how it uses the modern Burger King logo. That made its debut in 1999. Also, I assume they replaced the bombs with burgers as some sort of subtle (?) Burger King product placement, or just a reference to them specializing in burgers, which makes more sense than censorship.
11:04 Me and my sisters each had one of those sports games. I had the bowling one, and my sisters both had the soccer and skateboard ones if I remember correctly.
the mcdonalds near me started doing mini versions of classic board games. it ruined my friendships but now I have tiny hungry hippos form all the happy meals i got.
I actually got a Gaming system in my happy meal. It wasn't an LCD one, it was a water one. I remember you had to guide mario through a wasteland, and I loved it.
Oh my god I have so much nostalgia for these, and kids meal toy sets in general
I have a bunch of those, I do not know where they all are but I still know where my Sonic and my Tails LCD game are.
Cream was so adorable in the commercial, I loved how the sonic crew turned out in CGI commercials, it was way past cool
I had a lot of LCD Games back then, I used to call them "Game Boys", but after I got my first GBA I noticed the difference between the systems *and was never the same since*. My family had the entire Sonic set, I still own the Sonic and Cream LCD games, but I don't know what happen to the rest of them, and I recall that one of my Crash games was still with my stuff, but I'm too lazy to check it out now.
- V.D.
I'm seeing quite a few of these that I had as a kid. so much nostalgia