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Elder millennial, here. One of the weird things about the 90s was cereal boxes marketed to little bastards like me at the time would often have some kind of toy included in it.
PC gaming was kind of in its infancy and growing rapidly in popularity, so eventually the inevitable happed: a cereal company promoted their cereal by shoving a fucking CD into it, that little bastards like me lost their shit over, installed, and played the snot out of.
Chex Quest.
It was literally just Doom, except reskinned so the demons were boogers, and everything else was a fucking Chex cereal advertisement.
AND IT WAS AMAZING! lol
Best box of cereal my parents ever bought. Not a bargain bin, but I feel like "in a box of cereal" fits the spirit of the question.
When I grew up AoE was put in cornflakes.
/r/nocontext
Cornflakes is cereal. AoE is Age of Empires, you might have heard about it. The comment I replied to was talking about games being released in cereal boxes. Where is the context lacking?
…if you read that comment without context, it sounds funny? It did to me, anyway.
Ah, I see.
Hey that was me, too! Definitely worth $4 for that game, and a free box of cereal, lol.
Gonna vouch for Chex quest. That game was SOLID! 😂
I got the original roller coaster tycoon from a cereal box! I got other games too, but that's definitely the best (by far), and only one I remember.
That had to be wild to work on. You get brought into the kickoff meeting for what you assume is going to be some soulless marketing gimick, then they start laying it out.
It had a plot, a decent amount of levels. There was a good amount of heart that went into that.