Unidentified Game Spotted in McDonald's PlayPlace

Not from memory. The one time I saw the glitchy menu screen is all I ever saw of the game.
Keep in mind that I'm piecing this together from rather old childhood memories and the space theme, DDR style mat, glitchy menu and the word Fellow are the only things I remember. The menu glitch was the "Press The Start Button" text bouncing around inside it's placeholder box and the start button itself was not functional indicating some kind of fault was present in the system. It's very possible that the menu I saw had more issues causing part of the game title to be missing. I'm starting to think it may have said Follow instead of Fellow which would make more sense with a DDR style game where the player dances by following a series of arrows that scroll across the bottom of the screen. I know the information I have is scarce but I hope it is enough to find this mysterious game.

Was this game held in the normal mcdonalds n64/gamecube box? Although since its a ddr pad one i'd guess it was held in the later style with a gray front with a mcdonalds m and a red side

i searched on google mcdonalds australia dancing game early 2000's and this came up
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bust_a_Groove

So my first cursory investigation reminded me of the Just Dance or Unison title screen only because of the text placement. However, my first theory was that it was some sort of MTV-branded dance game (because of the Moonman from the channel's early days).

In researching games played with the dance pad, I have ruled out many. However, I was unable to find a title screen of:
TechnoMotion-- the aesthetic doesn't seem to match at all what you're remembering
Cyber Groove-- This is Taiwanese, also released in China. Can only find screenshots and very limited video of gameplay.

Then I found this article



This "R Gym" is very intriguing. I start to see the info pop up in 2006. Mentions of it I've seen have only been in the U.S., but most or all mention "dance pads". This seems to track a bit with what you're describing. I wonder if this is a proprietary game/software bundle McD put out for their franchisees. If so, could the tech have made it to Australia?

Then, finally, I found a picture:


So, OP, does this look even vaguely familiar?

And whaddya know! Found an image of the bike game:

That R-Gym dance pad is very similar to the one that was used with the game I'm trying to find.

In the mid 2000's, hundreds of Australian McDonald's restaurants were revamped as part of a major chain wide refurbishment project so that the McCafes could be implemented into and make use of the restaurant's original kitchen area.

The project also included modernisation of the dining rooms and upgrades to hundreds of old PlayPlaces that were no longer compliant with Australian playground safety codes. 

Megatoy Play Systems, a now defunct Australian playground equipment manufacturer won the contract to upgrade the old PlayPlaces. This would continue until 2012 when Megatoy was closed down by its parent company, Kompan, a Danish based playground equipment manufacturer.

One of Megatoy's product lines was called "Gym Fusion Interactive Family Play" which featured many of the same products as R-Gym which makes me think that Megatoy and R-Gym had a licence agreement that allowed for Megatoy to rebrand and sell the R-Gym products under the Gym Fusion Interactive name.

My local McDonalds had it's old PlayPlace equipment replaced with Megatoy Gym Fusion equipment which included the dance pad, game console and the game itself. Sadly due to poor maintenance and years of abuse from kids, the interactive features of the PlayPlace were left to rot until they stopped working completely. This is why I only ever saw the game screen showing a picture once.


Now fast forward to 2022 and the restaurant received it's second refurbishment which included expanding the dining room into part of the PlayPlace area. In order to accommodate the larger dining room, the now broken Megatoy Gym Fusion equipment was removed and replaced with a new PlayPlace that has really cool rainbow LEDs running down the sides of the playground structure. I have no idea what equipment the new PlayPlace has because I was 22 years old when the 2nd upgrade took place and for obvious reasons, I chose not to enter the PlayPlace.
(I could've tried using the "Parents can enter for supervision" rule as an excuse for being inside the PlayPlace as an adult but didn't want to risk getting kicked out)

Now back to the game.
The lack of maintenance and years of abuse from kids could've caused the screen to display a corrupted image that was being read from a dirt covered game disc inside a broken game console. This may also explain the glitchy behaviour I observed with the Start Button prompt I mentioned in my original post.

I don't recall ever seeing any copyright info on the dance pad or game screen and if there was, I have no clue what it would've said since I was 6 at the time. Most of the Megatoy playground equipment installed at McDonald's during the 1st round of upgrades didn't include the full Gym Fusion package and only had 1 or 2 of the products from the Gym Fusion range installed. I only saw the full setup at 2 locations however my local McDonald's is the only location where I ever saw the dancing game working in any form whatsoever.

Megatoy Gym Fusion equipment that was installed at McDonald's was almost always rethemed with a red and yellow colour scheme and sometimes featured the McDonald's logo as well. The game however did not have any McDonald's branding which suggests the game or software that contained thee game was not custom made for McDonald's.

What you have found so far is slowly helping me find this game or the piece of software that contained it.
Thanks for the help, much appreciated.