Breakfast Cereal Premiums
Packaging value-priced game CDs with popular cereals was popularized in the early 2000s. Titles tended to be older versions of established franchises like Wheel of Fortune, Sorry and casual card and tile games.
Today’s hit games are tomorrow’s value software. Here’s the deals being made in the cereal and grains industry today that will appear in the supermarket shelves of tomorrow:
- Honey Smacks with Rumble Roses XX
- Kix with Street Fighter 4
- Boo Berry with Maximo
- Trix with Pimps at Sea
- Froot Loops with Nights
- Life with two copies of Half-Life
- Lucky Charms with Kingdom Hearts II
- Product 19 with Mario Party 19
- Vector with Geometry Wars
- Quaker Oats with Quake
- Chex with NHL 08
- Count Chocula with Castlevania
- Cap’n Crunch with Silent Hunter
- Special K with God of War II
- Cheerios with British campaign from Call of Duty 4
- Shredded Wheat with Guitar Hero III
- Total with Burnout Paradise
- All-Bran with Portal
(with files from Tara Ariano)
I feel the need to translate to my U.S. brethren that “Vector” is a real, albeit Canadian, breakfast cereal.
Maybe it’s not so real, now that I consider that.
Also: “Portal” is another word for “anus,” but you probably didn’t need me to tell you that.