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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so that one dude somehow pulled this video out of his ass? This is amazing, it's better than the videos nintendo has for the wii. It can't be just one guy.
Anyways, this years april fools is the xbox 360 ELITE, I knew it...
the elite isn't a joke
if I saw this in 05...I woulda believed it....amazing fake video.
I would have believed it also - until I saw metroid, or mario at the end! hahaha.
But seriousally - Wiimote + That = Virtual Reality hahhaha
The elite is coming out and it is also a joke. Especially since it only supports HDMI1.2, not 1.3. I guess MS doesn't want you to run surround sound.
Have you been to the XBOX website. They have a section on the elite.
If this guy does that just for fun, he could be pretty good at advertising and stuff. Entertaining video!
Been to Xbox.com lately?
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/xbox360elite/default.htm?WText.camp+TS1-Xbox360Elite+WText.campSrc+Home
That's been up since the 28th
lol that video might have happen if nintendo was bought off by sony
Elite is not fake. this would be a pretty cool idea if it used a sort of "i-theater" type of screen. Might cost upwards of 500$ and expensive developing if it had good graphx.
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when i watch that, all i can think of is how horrible the virtual boy was.
Ok, the problem I’m about to address is totally ridiculous. There’re so many kids online who say that the main protagonist in GTA 4 is Russian!!!
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.
that is no mexican accent. i know lots of russiand with brown hair. games are only for kids and anyone who plays games need to get out more? why were you watching the gta4 trailer if your making fun of anyone who plays games. your a dumb *****ing ***** you dont deserve life because you squander your time posting comments about GTA 4 in the wii section a system the game isnt even coming out for. people are smuggled from other countries other then mexico. people are sold in other countrys. theres no mention of drugs. what the ***** are you talking about! i hope rockstar confirms the man is russian and *****s all over your *****ing face!
He sounds Russian (no not Mexican American, you are incredibly stupid if you think that, that's almost as bad as the guy who told me he thought the guy sounded French or German), who ever heard of a Hispanic who sounds Russian? Are YOU deaf?
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.
QJ either needs to stop allowing anonymous comments or start banning peoples' IPs, to get rid of trash like this guy. Are you trying to be racist? Calling Hispanics "brownies" and making it out like they are the only ones involved with drugs and illegal immigration is racist.
im russian and my parents have brown almost black hair. and i am soooooooooo excited about the protagonist in gta finally being russian! my life long dream baby!
there are so many things I could say about that post, but i don't have time. anyways, here are a few things.
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?
why does mario looks like luigi wearing red outfit?
http://sw2.2ya.com
its me strider
hes not russian...
hes ukrainian
Yall totally hijacked this thread with GTa4 but yeh he is deff Of Russian Origin
You all are retards... he's not mexican nor russian He CHINESE !
actually, antbing is right. it IS coming out, and it also IS a joke. i mean its still a piece of ***** like the 360 it just costs more...makes me laugh. especially since im playing my ps3 right now. mmmmmm.. ps3
You all are retards... he's not mexican nor russian He CHINESE !
err yeah this guys getting off going on about get a life and stop playing games, then tries to completely tell us this guy is mexican and not russian.
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
Enough about GTA, this article has nothing to do with that, and the guy who started talking about it is just an ***** trying to incite arguing. Ignore him.
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.
I thought it was to professionally made to be a hoax, but at the same time i couldnt believe it was capable of detecting motion like that, i was skeptical about it, but for a while i, and some of my friends, believed it was real
wow you are a dumbass. if it was about smuggling people out of mexico, why would it be taking place in Ney York all the way across the country. you continuously say these kids are ignorant just to make yourself look more stupid than you already are.
here is something else you stipid c unt. how the f uck made you decide to change the subject to being about GTA IV this article is about april fools systems, so go fornicate yourself.