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Offline kennyb27

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« on: April 02, 2003, 01:14:54 PM »
Seriously about games.  Last year was the whole Sonic and Tails in SSBM, which I found perfectly hilarious, but some people just didn't get it.  This year, some one wrote into the IGN mailbag complaining about Nintendo selling Silicon Knights.  I just think some people need to lighten up a bit.  But anyways, what other jokes did ya'll hear about the gaming industry this year?
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« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2003, 01:44:02 PM »
Shigeru Miyamoto being traded off for the Sega guy.  Found that here.
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« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2003, 02:25:52 PM »
Yeah, that was IGN Cube's joke. Nintendojo had one that Square was making FF X-3 a Gaemcube exclusvie (someone wrote into IGN's mailbag about that one, too). Starmen.net had a great one- they changed their site to look like a Pokemon fansite rather than an Earthbound site.
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« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2003, 08:52:20 PM »
I read about Splinter Cell coming to VB at vb.ign.com over here http://www.virtualboy.info
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Offline DarkHiei

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« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2003, 02:32:51 AM »
On www.gccafe.com they photoshopped a screenshot of Zelda:TWW to make look like you could get The legend of Zelda for the NES in TWW.
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« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2003, 10:02:54 AM »
Nintendophiles put up a story about how they were going to have to start charging to keep the site going. I actually got sucked by that one until I read the site the next day and realized it was they're April Fool's joke.

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Offline ruby_onix

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« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2003, 11:30:46 AM »
Working Designs translated their entire website into Arabic, and claimed that it had been "hijacked" by Muslim terrorists, and whenever you tried to do anything, a swirly-eyed militant leader would redirect you to Al-Jazera.com.

I think it was very well done and a number of people thought it was funny, but the general feeling was that WD shouldn't have given any attention or control over their joke to Al-Jazera.com, which was a real website.

People were just visiting their favorite website, getting to enjoy a pretty funny April Fools Day joke, and then getting to see disturbing Iraqi propaganda pictures of little babies bleeding from head wounds.
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« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2003, 12:02:29 PM »
It's no more propaganda than CNN.
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« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2003, 12:28:18 PM »
Eggy: No, Al-Jazeera hasn't had many restrictions in what they show. I don't think any American news channel has shown, or will show, anything near as graphic as what Al-Jazeera has.
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« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2003, 12:28:21 PM »
I think, to prevent a flame war, we shouldn't discuss any war propaganda. But I will say this: CNN isn't the same as Al-Jazera. They do not humiliate prisoners of war, nor do they show off a bunch of gory pictures.

Well, I didn't check online for any April Fools jokes, but there was an announcement at my high school claiming IBM had just granted the senior class several hundred Pentium 4 ThinkPads.

edit: gah, mouse_clicker beat me to it
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Offline kennyb27

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« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2003, 01:10:57 PM »
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Well, I didn't check online for any April Fools jokes, but there was an announcement at my high school claiming IBM had just granted the senior class several hundred Pentium 4 ThinkPads.  
Oh, thats just evil, I think I would shoot the person that came up with that joke.
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Offline nolimit19

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« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2003, 06:53:33 PM »
damn i wish we could discuss politics on this board....but alas i must discuss the war with american haters at the magicbox boards......but enough with that.....april fools is an evil holiday, and i dont like it.
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« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2003, 07:32:38 PM »
Didn't Zophar's Domain do something where they were in trouble with the law and were going to sued and shut down?
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« Reply #13 on: April 16, 2003, 03:39:57 PM »
Have you seen the April Fools joke in the EGM magazine. Turns out, in the codes section, they put up a little section-ma-jiggy on an Xbox Volleyball game (the characters were the same female characters from one of the Dead or Alive games). Well, anyway, they gave an awesome code that should have made all the women in the game topless. Well, since most people that got that pointless game were perves, they tried it out and found that it didn't work and people started to complain to EGM. APRIL FOOLS to those little perves. The next issue of EGM revealed the secret that disappointed some.  
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« Reply #14 on: April 16, 2003, 03:54:44 PM »
What's even funnier is the fact that some people wrote in to EGM complaining that the only reason they bought the game was for that code!  Serves them right I guess.
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