McDonald’s Pimps Catan, Jungle Speed
Air Le Mag is a monthly custom publication with a circulation of 280,000 that’s produced by Textuel for Mac Donald’s – as the fast-food restaurant is called in Canada – and the March 2009 issue features a three page article on games that lists three titles as “must haves”: Monopoly (no surprise there), The Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow and The Settlers of Catan.
Small World, Ca$h’n Gun$ and Time’s Up are also mentioned in the article, and Bruno Faidutti, Tric Trac’s Monsieur Phal, and Jungle Speed co-designer Thomas Vuarchex are all quoted. The article mentions that Jungle Speed, which was introduced in 1996, has annual sales of 200,000.
(The “golden arches over Catan“ image comes from Filosofia, which publishes the French edition of Settlers for Canada and Europe. You can download this article from a news link on the Filosofia website.)
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Mar 12, 2010 at 01:30 PM in Game News, The Industry at Large / 1101
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McDonalds’s is most certainly not called “Mac Donald’s” in Canada. Posted by Edward Pollard on Mar 12, 2010 at 04:28 PM | #
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Thanks for the note, Edward. I also thought the spelling strange since I’ve seen McDonald’s in Okinawa and Germany, but given that both Textuel and Filosofia used “Mac Donald’s” I thought it best to go with what the Canadians wrote than what I thought. Lesson learned… Eric Posted by W. Eric Martin on Mar 12, 2010 at 04:46 PM | #
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