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PocketBike Racer is an advergaming title developed by Blitz Games for the Xbox and Xbox 360 video game consoles. [1] On November 19, 2006, Burger King started selling it for an additional $3.99 USD ($4.99 in Canada) with any value meal.
Pocketbike Racer on IGN, IGN.com, retrieved November 4, 2006; Burger King and Xbox Team Up, IGN.com, retrieved November 4, 2006; First look at the trio of Burger King games, SiliconEra, retrieved November 4, 2006; GameSpy profile for Pocketbike Racer, GameSpy, retrieved November 4, 2006
In Pocketbike Racer, the mascots face off in a minibike race. Big Bumpin' pits them against each other in a game of bumper cars and finally in Sneak King, players control the King in a third-person perspective stealth game where the King must sneak up behind hungry people and offer them Burger King products. Players are graded on how ...
In 1973, BK introduced a jingle in response to McDonald's Big Mac song. [12] The lyrics proclaimed that Burger King would serve you a customized product (for example you can have whatever toppings you wanted on a burger, or even plain), according to its slogan Have it your way , and that it would happily do so:
Big Bumpin ' was one of three promotional Burger King-themed releases for winter 2006, the other two games were Sneak King and PocketBike Racer. The Burger King-only marketing run was from November 19 through December 24, 2006. [6] The games were available for $3.99 with any purchase of any Burger King value meal. [7]
The advertisements featured the comedian Adam Carolla as the voice of BK's drive thru. The menu was later renamed the BK Value Menu with prices starting at US$1. [8] Shortly after the acquisition of Burger King by TPG Capital in 2002, its new CEO Bradley (Brad) Blum set about reversing the fortunes of the company's advertising programs.
Pocketbike racing, known as MiniMoto, is a professional, internationally sectioned sport. It is raced by both youth and adults, on specialized, high performance machines. Several notable MotoGP racers and champions first raced in MiniMoto, including Valentino Rossi , Loris Capirossi , Nobuatsu Aoki , and Daijiro Kato . [ 13 ]
In 2006, Stainless was sub-contracted by Blitz Games to develop one of their three Burger King games, PocketBike Racer. The company has subsequently developed in the console download field, with eleven titles released or soon to be [when?] released on XBLA, plus two titles on PSN (PS3). These include a range of Atari classic titles which have ...