Video: Here's Proof That Every Kid's Birthday Should Feature McDonald's And Contra III

I really enjoy this guys videos. I'm sorry I don't have any footage like that from when I was a kid. Camcorders back then were crazy expensive. He was kind of spoilt as well.

Huh ?!

I really should get to work on a video cycle with all of Banpresto's Compati Heroes games.

I hope that first sentence was tongue and cheek!...

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After getting three import games, I can see why they went cheap on having a MacDonalds party. Importing games isn't cheap, but back in the 90's it was really expensive.

I remember one Christmas when I got super Mario all stars from my mum and dad which I wanted more than anything in the world, but there was a second snes game wrapped up under the tree. One I hadnt asked for and didn't know much about, it was Zelda a link to the past. One of my best childhood memories 😁

I remember my fifth birthday; I went to Discovery Zone (not that anyone remembers that place), and got Kirby's Adventure, which I still play at least once a year.

I don't like McDonald's, or food from America in general.

Nostalgia overload with that McDonalds birthday setup.

@G-Boy Yeah, generally Americans don't like McDonald's either, so we're all on the same page on that one

Every once in a while in a pinch, we'll eat it, because it's there....in all it's cardboard-dipped-in-rancid-fat glory.

But to a kid in the 80's & 90's when Happy Meals were all the rage every kid wanted to go to McDonalds. More for the toy than the food, I think! The day they started putting Happy Meals in paper bags instead of the signature cardboard box, they lost most of their appeal though.

Actually back in the 80's McDonald's food was actually much better quality than it is today. It still wasn't "good" by any stretch, but it seemed a little less like you were being poisoned when you ate it

Great video!

@Emperor-Palpsy

I had a birthday (either 5th or 6th) at McDonalds. I know a VHS of it exists somewhere, but I don't remember getting any now retro gaming goodness.

@allav866
And that next year I think I had one at Discovery Zone! That place was friggin' awesome!

very nice video indeed.
i think today im gonna pick up some mcdonalds and stare at my super famicom games too

I don't know what constitutes a 90's kid these days. I do know in the early to mid 90's (from adolescent to preteen), I would have never even imagined attending a birthday party at McDonalds. Where I grew up, getting a McDonalds Happy Meal was a rare luxury.

@UmbreonsPapa
where did you grow up? happy meals were like 2 dollars...

@allav866
DZ! Where kids wanna be!

@ogo79 Grew up in Dorchester, a neighborhood in Boston. A very low income part of the city (or at least it used to be. Now parts of Dorchester is is experiencing gentrification ala Brooklyn). I was raised, for the most part, by grandmother (along with a few other cousins). We weren't poor in the sense of wanting for food, clothes or a roof over our head. But being part of a pretty large family that would sometimes gather at my grandmother's for dinners or for fun, she had to pinch every penny she could. So Happy Meals were one of the very last things on her list of priorities. This was the case for most of the people I grew up with. So birthday parties at a McDonalds was not even a thought.

@UmbreonsPapa
oh ok i see.
well hopefully nowadays youve got yer games, thats what were all here for

@Emperor-Palpsy Nah, I think they're being serious. I know I went to a bunch of McDonalds birthday parties, haha.

@SmaMan @speedracer216 @FattyWhale_42 Okay, I stand corrected. Can't remember too much, just that it had a playground with a ball pit, and it was much better than Pistol Pete's Pizza.
Hmph. Ball pits and Pistol Pete's Pizza, other relics of a forgotten age...

Contra III really is an amazing run 'n' gun game.

And now I'm going to go check out the Rushing Beat series. . . .