Corporate mascots appearing in video games is something that has been happening since at least 1983 and has continued throughout the last few decades. However, these days they aren't every bit common and usually star in mobile games or browser games if they're in any at all.

Sneak Rex is peradventure the most well-known of these games, which completely overshadowed the other two games available through the same Burger King promotion. But there'south an even wider world of games based on corporate mascots out there that are, or at least at one point were, available for a diverseness of different platforms.

10 Donaldland

Donaldland

McDonald'southward has had enough of games between G.C. Kids, the environment-saving Global Gladiators, and even employing Hello Kitty characters in Hello Kitty to McDonald de Asobo!, but the start game to be based on the clown mascot himself was Donald Country, which was released for the Famicom in Japan in 1988.

Donald Land has Ronald McDonald (known as Donald McDonald in Japan) become on a journey to save his kidnapped friends from the different bosses throughout McDonaldland. How does he defeat enemies and bosses? With correctly timed apple bombs, of form! Although it'southward a product necktie-in game, it's a relatively competent platformer for the time, with some surprisingly terrifying boss designs.

nine Spot Goes To Hollywood

Spot Goes To Hollywood

7-Up mascot Cool Spot has appeared on enough of lists before due to his platformer Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, but that was actually his third game. Spot Goes to Hollywood, the soda mascot's fourth and concluding game, was released for the Sega Genesis in 1995 and later received releases on the Sega Saturn and PlayStation featuring improved graphics, FMV cutscenes, and a few different levels. Spot Goes To Hollywood is an isometric platformer rather than a 2-dimensional one, where Spot makes his manner through different movie genres after condign trapped in a projector. Information technology may have relied on a common trope, but a corporate mascot getting more than ane console game is rare, let alone four.

8 Kool-Aid Homo

Kool-Aid Man Atari & Intellivision

With how recognizable the Kool-Aid Man is, it's surprising that he simply starred in two video games of his own, released for the Atari 2600 and Intellivision in 1983. The Atari 2600 version has the Kool-Aid man preventing enemies chosen thirsties from draining a local puddle dry out past collecting Kool-Assist ingredients. The Intellivision game instead features 2 kids trying to escape a haunted business firm taken over past thirsties while collecting Kool-Aid ingredients so that they can summon Kool-Aid man, and he can defeat the thirsties past collecting different fruit. Ironically, a character known for crashing through walls got two video games right before the 1983 video game crash.

7 Pepsi Man Arcade

Pepsiman Arcade

Non to exist dislocated with the wacky PlayStation game of the same name, this Pepsi Human game was released ii years earlier in 1997 in arcades in Japan and was developed past Sigma Enterprises, Inc. This game is much simpler compared to its successor, every bit it primarily revolves around playing rock-paper-scissors with Pepsiman then spinning a roulette bike after which increases i of the scores unless Pepsi Human being falls to his doom instead. There'south not much other data available tour this game, but information technology'due south interesting to note that Pepsi Man was pop enough to get more than one game in Japan.

half dozen Sonny'due south Race For The Chocolatey Taste

Sonny's Race For The Chocolatey Taste

While cereal brands are no stranger to necktie-in video games, such as Chex Quest & Cap'due north Crisis's Crunchling adventure, i that is seldom mentioned is Sonny's Race for the Chocolatey Gustation. This game stars Cocoa Puff's infamous bird mascot as he races in various sports to obtain the ingredients he needs for the cereal he so unhealthily craves. Collecting all the required pieces of chocolate allows Sonny to proceed to the adjacent level while collecting eight coca puffs will temporarily double the points given by each item and bonus. Surprisingly, General Mills didn't apply whatever of their other mascots for similar games, but mayhap Sonny was but the most popular at the time.

5 The California Raisins

The California Raisins

Not quite besides-known as they used to exist back in the '80s, the California Raisins are a grouping of singing stale fruit made to promote raisins. In 1988, the California Raisins received their own game for Commodore 64, DOS, and Apple II computers. The game was a simple platformer where players had to avert enemies and collect a key to become to the next level and save the other group members, although they could get a power-upwardly that immune them to shoot enemies. The California Raisins nigh got another game for the Nintendo Entertainment System two years afterwards, simply information technology was canceled due to their reduced popularity.

4 M&Ms Minis Madness

M &M's Minis Madness

For some reason, the M&Ms seem to be the mascots with the most video games, getting their games since the start of the new millennium, appearing on several platforms over the years. The two-dimensional platformer, M&M's Minis Madness, was their beginning and only Game Boy Color outing and came out at a time when Mini M&M'south were being heavily promoted alongside their spokes candies, The Minis. Minis Madness lets players switch between four different M&K'due south with their own unique special abilities meant for different situations. Unfortunately, it shared the fate of all other Yard & M's games and was not well-received. Maybe information technology's fourth dimension to accept that basing games on candy mascots is a bad idea.

3 Super Dany

Super Dany

Not also-known worldwide, the French mascots for Dannon (called Danone in French republic) got a France-exclusive Super Nintendo game in 1994 called Super Dany. In Super Dany, the mascots get absorbed into a Telly world where they become superheroes to save their friend who has been kidnapped. Players tin switch between each of the three characters and employ their dissimilar abilities to get by obstacles, just the previous graphic symbol will be left where they were and turned to stone. For those unaware of the mascots, it'due south hard to tell that this game is a product tie-in, as yogurt only appears in the introduction scene and doesn't appear as a power-up or item to collect.

two Wonka Flash Game Serial

Wonka Games

Back when there were blithe commercials for all the unlike types of Wonka candies, the official website had a series of classic retro games reskinned to feature the animated characters from the world of their commercials and the candies they promoted.

The website featured reskinned versions of Breakout, Tetris, Snake, and more than, while promoting candies including but not express to Laffy Taffy, Nerds, Nerds Rope, Pixy Stix, and Gobstoppers. The blithe commercials stopped airing altogether sometime in the mid to tardily aughts, and as such, these games are no longer officially available to play.

1 I Love You, Colonel Sanders

I Love You, Colonel Sanders

This game marks the first fourth dimension a fast-nutrient chain created a dating simulator based around its mascot. In the game, the player starts their culinary journey at the Academy of Cooking School: University for Learning, which has a "semester" of just 3 days. In those three days, the histrion character learns how to cook meals while pursuing their main romantic interest, the Colonel himself. Additionally, it is probably the virtually self-aware production tie-in game to be created so far. Luckily, I Dearest You, Colonel Sanders is a one-of-a-kind game and didn't cause other eating house bondage to start making shameless imitators with their mascots as well, at least, not yet.

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