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Emptyeye Real American Level: 67 Posts: 5/2273 EXP: 2488421 For next: 104451 Since: 05-24-04 From: I DUNNOOOOOOOO!! Since last post: 9 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| As has been stated several times in this thread already, I think the biggest factor in the decline in rumors (If there even has been such a decline) is the Internet. It's a lot easier to relay information via the Internet than through paper magazines or what-have-you. It effectively eliminated the necessity of having to repeat the hoax yourself to see if it was true or not. I think my all-time personal favorite hoax/joke/whatever was EGM's 1992 April Fool's Day joke of "Fight Sheng Long in Street Fighter II". Yes, II. The process involved something rediculous and physically impossible, like fighting M. Bison to a 10-round (Note that SFII only had a maximum of four rounds) hitless draw or something. Two things made it great: 1. In that same issue, they had a "spot the April Fool's Day joke" contest. The information for it was printed directly underneath this "trick". 2. a Hong Kong magazine actually believed it and reprinted it, without permission. EGM's response was "That'll teach them to use our material without our permission..."  |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 1571/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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EGM had some of the most well-done April Fools tricks.  The Sheng Long one was tremendous, mainly because people looked at the screenshots and thought "Oh, wait, this might be real!" - and then they go to the arcade and fail miserably.  I also liked the cute one they did where you could play as Simon Belmont in TNMT2. |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 1871/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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Originally posted by LegionHonestly many people acted like asses back then against me, becuse they didn't belive me...  "IT'S FROM GAMEFAQS! GAMEFAQS IS FOR STUPID PEOPLE AND IT'S FALSE BECUSE IT'S FROM GAMEFAQS!" "YOUR ARE A MORON FOR BELIVING THIS!"I was so close leaving the board for that... (I took the insults pretty seriously back then... heck I still feel little angry how people reacted against me  ) and well I had also a proof video but none downloaded it/had the right codec for it. I was pretty much unknown back then, and my spelling wasn't the best... so it's still somewhat understandable why people didn't belive me... And the triforce in ocarina of time, Ariana fooled alot of people back then. But I wasn't around when it happened just saw a article about it a few months after it happened. And you do get one part of the triforce in Ocarina of time... triforce of courage. |
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