Ten devastating April Fools' jokes

by Alisha Karabinus on Apr 1st 2008 1:30PM

Once upon a time, April Fools' Day was an innocent little "holiday" filled with harmless pranks and jokes that never hurt a fly -- or a gamer on the Internet. Somewhere, sometime, however, we seem to have lost our way; at some point, April 1st became a minefield of heartbreaking stories that weren't, and woe to the hapless reader who believed in the amazing port, the desired sequel, or the new game announcement posted by a prankster gleefully rubbing his or her hands and cackling madly from on high.

Consider this a pre-emptive strike -- we're declaring ten things completely sacred. There are some things you just don't joke about!*

*Okay, you can, but it'll really, really hurt our feelings.

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Tags: april-fools, joystiqfeatures

Reader Comments (11)

I'm not falling for no AF joke in fact I'll be busy this whole day.I'm trying to unlock Shen-long in SFII.According to this old EGM article I just have to beat all characters without lossing health or getting K.O in the hardest difficulty.

:P

This is just a sad reminder of what we dont have....this hurts you guys......sooooo mean........(super smash anything!!....pssshhh)

Happy April Fools XD

Think of this like a vaccine. :)

Wouldn't it be incredibly mean if red octane let us all know today that there really wasnt going to be on-tour....that it was all a lead up to a really heartbreaking April Fools Day Prank......

Glad you guys arent that mean

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LOL!!

I'm honestly surprised that there hasn't been a Golden Sun prank yet.

There MAY be....

Now for the list of announcements we can only hope are April Fools' jokes: Imagine: Babyz tops one million sales worldwide, Homie Rollerz not only exists but stores are actually asking for money in exchange for the game, etc. The horror.