Neurosky

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• dm_boozefreek

  January 2008 edited January 2008

  I remember EGMs fight Sheng Long on Streetfighter 2, it was such a popular April fool as the world was absorbed by SF2 at the time.
  
  I remember a UK mag reporting that a Japanese games mag had taken EGMs April Fool seriously and printed it, with instructions how to do it and apparently claiming it worked. EGM got wind of this also and laughed about it.
  
  Funny though as that went worldwide, I read it in an American mag, then a japanese mag stole it as "Real", making complete tits of themselves, which I read about in a british mag.
  
  That's the only April fool that really sticks in my mind.
  
  I do recall one from around about 1991 for Robocod, and that was apparently if you banged his head 50 times in a row you could give him brain damage, can't remember who printed that, but chances are it would've been Mean Machines (highly unlikely) or Sega Power (more likely).

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• ewgf

  January 2008 edited January 2008

  I did fall for the Your Spectrum April fool, where we had to type in a "fix" to enable us to see the "lost" room in Jetset Willy, and what we were really doing was typing the data for the room itself!
  
  I didn't fall for the Games designer April fool printed a year or two later in Your Spectrum (or Your Sinclair), mainly as the choose-which-bugs-to-insert menu seemed to give it away, plus it was programmed my Matt Schidt, which was obviously a Germanised version of "Matthew Smith", arguably the Spectrum's most well known programmer of the time.
  
  You don't get April fools any more, not in magazines, television or anywhere, at least not good one. Wonder why?
• dm_boozefreek

  January 2008 edited January 2008

  They'd probably get in trouble for it now as most games geeks have little or no sense of humour when it comes to their gaming.
  
  I guess it's just the way of the next generation :D

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