Activist video games — managing McDonalds®

La Molleindustria, who are activist political videogame makers have this great McDonalds video game you can play online.

In the game, you have to grow the beef, slaughter it, hire staff, manage the restaurant, sell stuff, then grow more beef etc….

Suddenly your restaurant manager is screaming for more burgers. So go trash some more rainforest, farm some more beef. And on you go. In a moment I got a sense of the evils of consumption.

Highly recommended. Go play.

And for bonus points, they have a bunch of other subversive games.

Link

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006 activism

4 Comments to Activist video games — managing McDonalds®

Well spotted, it has been a while since I checked Molleindustria, it’d be good to know how many other groups are doing something similar. Have you seen A force more powerful?

gillo on February 3rd, 2006

Thanks gillo. No, I haven’t seen A force more powerful. It looks like a great docco. I wonder when it will be shown here in Australia.

By the way, you link got munched by something… so for others to find out about A force more powerful, see here:

http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/

-g

Graeme Sutherland on February 5th, 2006

If you remind me at the end of february, I’ll buy you a copy :)

gillo on February 5th, 2006

Thanks Gillo, will take you up on that. If you do, I’ll show it to a whole lot of people here in Australia.

Graeme Sutherland on February 7th, 2006

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