April Fools' recall: Five famous hoax consoles |
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The PSPBoy? The Apple iGame? Like many a video game myth we know, names like these went down in the annals of gaming history as some of the more hyped consoles we almost expected to launch. For today's April festivities, the folks from 99lives have provided a top five list of hoax video game consoles that includes other names that many of you may have heard from before. For our first system:
Sega Phoenix:
A rumor started back in 2005, the Sega Phoenix promised, among other things, the computing power of four AMD processors, a 120GB hard-disk drive, and backwards compatibility for all previous Sega gaming systems titles. Rundown: It had the PS3's specs, a Wii-like retro gaming library, and the Xbox 360's looks (with liberal amounts of blue) - imagine the phrase "Looks like pork, smells like fish, tastes like chicken..."
Sony PSPBoy:
The name says it all - a cross between the PSP and a Nintendo Gameboy portable consoles. As it turns out, this faux-portable gaming system was crafted by our very own MaDSouL, who pulled off this project using his computer's trusty Photoshop application. Among other features the PSPBoy was rumored to carry were 2GB memory sticks, LCD screens and dual analog controllers (the PSP's thumb analog, to be accurate).
The Apple iGame:
This mystery console supposedly by Apple came out in last year's EGM April edition, and was rumored to be an iPod variant capable of playing games purchased online. It also featured access to iTunes, which would have given it quite a run against the PSP or DS, except we did say this was featured on EGM's April 2006 issue... does Sheng Long ring a bell?
The Sega Hedgehog:
Much like the bigger Phoenix, the Hedgehog was reported to be capable of playing old and new Sega titles. It was also claimed to feature a 566Mhz processor (for comparison: the PSP runs on 333Mhz), a 128 Mb graphics card, a 640AX360 screen, and touch-pad functions. Slap on the reported DivX support, and USB/SD/Compact Flash interconnectivity, and it would have sounded like a sweet deal... if it were true.
The Nintendo ON:
Before the Nintendo Revolution was ever named the Wii, people will probably remember Pablo Belmonte (aka psyco3ler) - the guy who cooked up this beautifully-done video below featuring the Nintendo ON. On one hand, this VR helmet would have been an interesting mix to the Wiimote's motion-sensitivity. On the other, we can imagine how much console-related injuries would have increased exponentially.
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Anyways, this years april fools is the xbox 360 ELITE, I knew it...
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But seriousally - Wiimote + That = Virtual Reality hahhaha
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http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/xbox360elite/default.htm?WText.camp+TS1-Xbox360Elite+WText.campSrc+Home
That's been up since the 28th
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R O F L.
L M A O.
What stupid kids you all are. Listen. I’ll teach you some basic common sense.
[Question] (It’s mentioned above)
[Answer] The guy in GTA 4 is a Mexican-American who’s doing illegal things like smuggling people and more.
1. Yo, kids! Are you f+cking blind? Can’t you see that his facial color is brown? He’s brownie. (There’s 0 number of Russian who has brown face.)
2. Are you f+cking blind, again? His hair color is freaking dark (semi-black and brown; There’s 0 number of Russian who has black-brown hair.)
3. R O F L. You ignorant kids!
4. His accent is completely Mexican-English! (Are you freaking deaf, kids? All of you!)
5. Most of all, I have known dozens of Russian-Canadians and Mexican-Canadians in my real life.
6. You kids are f+cking ridiculous, idiotic and ignorant.
7. This protagonist says he killed ppl, smuggled ppl and sold ppl. This is all about drug and illegal immigrants from Mexico.
8. Most of you kids don’t even know what illegal immigration is. Watch some CNN and Fox News instead of playing games, stupid kids.
9. Anyway, there’re so many games which are made so well. You game addicts who have worthless existence and lives can waste away your pitiful lives by playing all these games.
10. Grow up, immatured guys. How old are you? Games are only for kids.
11. Can’t you see things other than games? The protagonist’s lips are thick, THICK! *****s and Browns have thick lips. Russians are white; white ppl don’t have thick lips.
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Also, 9 and 10 were completely uncalled for, what are you doing on a GAME website if they're for kids? What are you doing watching the trailer of a GAME called GTA IV if they're for people who "have worthless existence"? For that matter, what is an "immatured" guy? Five dollars says you're not over fifteen, judging from your grammar.
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1. WHERE THE F*CK DO YOU LIVE? MONTANA? HAVE YOU EVER SEEN SOME ONE OF MEXICAN ORIGIN, LET ALONE HEARD THEM SPEAK? that dude is definitely NOT mexican, or even hispanic, for that matter. he's definitely eastern european. how would I know? I live fifty-five miles from the Mexican border, two thirds of my city is hispanic, and I had an exchange student from Romania (eastern Europe, in case you didn't know) a year and a half ago. I'm not saying he's romanian, i'm just saying he's from that region.
2. Where do you get off throwing in all those racist comments on a video game message board? for all you know, some eight year old could be sitting there reading your crap.
3. Who cares where this bundle of data that resembles a human being is 'from?' why is it that important?
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http://sw2.2ya.com
its me strider
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hes ukrainian
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Err yeah.. ITS A COMPUTER GAME MATE. they could make him black and have a chinese accent, 20 ft tall who comes from the moon. It's not a real person so who gives a *****! haha your the opne in need of a life here
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On topic: I love these April 1st pranks. The PSPBOY was done very well, though the placement of the controls makes me think it would have been a right pain in the ass to play.
As for the Nintendo ON, holy crap. I've seen the video before, but every time I watch it I still think 'holy crap'. I can't imagine how much time it took to make that, but someone seriously needs to give the guy (people?) who made that high paying jobs, because he (they?) is very good.
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