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[Myth Bustin'] April Fools 2009
EvilBadman
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We find ourselves at the magical time of year where print magazines, if they still existed or if anyone read them, would have overwhelmed us with ridiculous April Fool's gags. This thread is to wade through the bullshit that will be inundating our internet tubes in the coming week and to relive some of the previous years pranks.
In Recent Memory:
2008 - IGN Releases The Legend of Zelda Movie Trailer
Strangely preceded by .gifs appearing on various websites, IGN drops the bomb, and it doesn't look as terrible as many other video game movies end up being.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oqwFNKN8MA
2007 - Think Geek's 8-Bit Tie
Stylish and nerdy, Think Geek eventually produced and sold the tie due to incredible demand.
2003 (?) - Pandarens join Warcraft 3 as 5th Race
Blizzard shot up an entire mini-site to the lovable furballs. The Frozen Throne did see the birth of Pandaren Brewmaster mecenary units, and the pen and paper gamers based on World Of Warcraft allows the creation of Pandaren heroes.
2002 - EGM "reveals" how to unlock Sonic and Tails in Super Smash Brothers Melee
And the internet is still reeling, even after Brawl's release.
2001 - Bungie announces Pimps at Sea
And every year they add a little to it. There's even a T-Shirt. A man can dream.
April Fool's! It's Actually REAL!
Games that have been announced during late march that lead to skepticism are few and far between, but Nights (Wii), Mario and Sonic at the Summer Games, and Rock Band were in fact not figments of our collective imagination.
What's in-store for '09?
Habitual offenders such as Blizzard, ThinkGeek and IGN undoubtedly have tricks up their sleeves, and until then the following images are placeholders.
Until that magical day happens stumbles us again, let's talk about our favorite gags from yesteryear.
In Recent Memory:
2008 - IGN Releases The Legend of Zelda Movie Trailer
Strangely preceded by .gifs appearing on various websites, IGN drops the bomb, and it doesn't look as terrible as many other video game movies end up being.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oqwFNKN8MA
2007 - Think Geek's 8-Bit Tie
Stylish and nerdy, Think Geek eventually produced and sold the tie due to incredible demand.
2003 (?) - Pandarens join Warcraft 3 as 5th Race
Blizzard shot up an entire mini-site to the lovable furballs. The Frozen Throne did see the birth of Pandaren Brewmaster mecenary units, and the pen and paper gamers based on World Of Warcraft allows the creation of Pandaren heroes.
2002 - EGM "reveals" how to unlock Sonic and Tails in Super Smash Brothers Melee
And the internet is still reeling, even after Brawl's release.
2001 - Bungie announces Pimps at Sea
And every year they add a little to it. There's even a T-Shirt. A man can dream.
April Fool's! It's Actually REAL!
Games that have been announced during late march that lead to skepticism are few and far between, but Nights (Wii), Mario and Sonic at the Summer Games, and Rock Band were in fact not figments of our collective imagination.
What's in-store for '09?
Habitual offenders such as Blizzard, ThinkGeek and IGN undoubtedly have tricks up their sleeves, and until then the following images are placeholders.
Until that magical day happens stumbles us again, let's talk about our favorite gags from yesteryear.
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Well, EGM can go die in a fire
Oh wait....
We were the ones who thought that Melissa was real. Why you might ask.
Let me put it this way, it was an "OH SHIT OH SHIT, THEY FOUND ME
Some of you have met me, and I understand your concern of my well being. But that time for that boy, that child, are gone now. Viscount Alpha is no longer operable. His functions are now mine.He may post, but I am the one talking not him.My data, my code will live on forever in his servers.
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Friendships were destroyed.
I'm sure they would have done it yet again this year if they were still around
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Wii: 5024 6786 2934 2806 | Steam/XBL: Arcibi | FFXI: Arcibi / Bahamut
Technically Sheng Long is in SFIV under his real name, not the confusion from Ryu's win quote in SFII.
One of Gouken's titles is even "Also known as Sheng Long".
Steam: Feriluce
This is EGM we're talking about here
The only thing that would stop them from doing it again would be if they stopped making EGM
And oh hey, would you look at that
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EGM does it best.
Steam: Feriluce
Just so we're clear, you're not talking about Fighters Megamix, right?
Nope, definitely not. I think that's where they got the idea though. It was called something similar, like Fighters Ultramix or something to that effect.
Steam: Feriluce
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/hats-ties/9352/
The joke was on them when everyone actually wanted one.
We were the ones who thought that Melissa was real. Why you might ask.
Let me put it this way, it was an "OH SHIT OH SHIT, THEY FOUND ME
Some of you have met me, and I understand your concern of my well being. But that time for that boy, that child, are gone now. Viscount Alpha is no longer operable. His functions are now mine.He may post, but I am the one talking not him.My data, my code will live on forever in his servers.
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As much as I loathe Rick-Rolling that was easily my favourite one last year.
I saw that and thought to myself well played Youtube.
Well Played.
No good sir, the joke is on you.
edit: it's already mentioned in the op
the best rick roll i ever got was being awake at 4AM, watching MTV, and seeing a show called busted. It was really stupid, basically, but ridiculous and easy to laugh at in my sleep-deprived state.
So anyways I fumble into MTV's section on on demand and see they have a few episodes. Flipping through the descriptions I found most of them were just really boring "getting busted" stories.
Until I hit the motherlode. This episode was gonna be so awesome, it had sex and drugs and violence. So I hit OK to order it, and Rick Astley pops up on the screen.
I sat there in quiet silence for the 4 minute duration of the song. With my mouth wide open. I had been fooled, just when I thought it was safe.
Hell MTV even went through the trouble to lie about the runtime of the video in the description.
Xbox : gunst4r
We were the ones who thought that Melissa was real. Why you might ask.
Let me put it this way, it was an "OH SHIT OH SHIT, THEY FOUND ME
Some of you have met me, and I understand your concern of my well being. But that time for that boy, that child, are gone now. Viscount Alpha is no longer operable. His functions are now mine.He may post, but I am the one talking not him.My data, my code will live on forever in his servers.
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Steam: Feriluce
I must have spent 2 days trying to get those cheats to work on a friends SNES.
PSN: SirGrinchX
Xbox Live: SirGrinch X
Something like the new protoss in SC3 will have hybrid human/protoss infiltrators.
We were the ones who thought that Melissa was real. Why you might ask.
Let me put it this way, it was an "OH SHIT OH SHIT, THEY FOUND ME
Some of you have met me, and I understand your concern of my well being. But that time for that boy, that child, are gone now. Viscount Alpha is no longer operable. His functions are now mine.He may post, but I am the one talking not him.My data, my code will live on forever in his servers.
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They should actually do one on April Fool's Day this year.
Xbox: UnbreakableVows | PSN/Wii U: UnbreakableVow | 3DS: 1521-3241-9354
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGom_CCz4so
I want a bard class wielding electric guitars... that looked awesome.
At least they have the Tauren Chieftains.
Steam: Feriluce
I'm doing Movember for Men's Health! Donate if you can - thanks.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4dnd/20080401b
In my mind, nothing beats EGM's AFD 2005.
I fell for this one hardcore. Really didn't help that the local EB Games was swearing it was real and accepting pre-orders whilst trumpeting "updated Wind Waker" as a bonus.
That's just mean mean mean!
Yeah, I miss that site. They always had great April Fools' stuff. The FF8 Gaiden one even got picked up in a pretty decent number of print publications, as I recall.
I thought it quite fitting that their "We're closing forever" announcement came on April Fool's Day (2002, IIRC), and no one was sure if it was real.
Well, can always take a few moments to remember.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010210021946/www.thegia.com/news/n990401b.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20001216000900/www.thegia.com/features/f000402.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20010304041050/www.thegia.com/news/n990401a.html
Buahaha.
That's brilliant.
wait a minute...
Resident Evil Snap = Dead Rising?!?