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I know theres already a couple of topics each with their own joke but I tought i would start a thread to keep everything in one place.

So come on chaps lets see some of the crap youve come across, ill go first with one i picked up from the DS forum.

Melty Blood Sky Stage Game http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... y4E1XvH-NQ

edit: shame its just a joke as i would really dig playing this
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I still want to play that hamster game from last year's april fools :cry:
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Awww this ruins the fun. Anyway, someone should close my iCade post then.

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=30825

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Ahh sorry i thought that everybody would know any news posted today is goona be BS but i fogot that theres always the odd person of 2 that fall for it even though its bleeding obvious

plus i didnt notice that thread, sorry again, (btw nice joke)
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SO, what has irem in store this year?
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ZOM wrote:SO, what has irem in store this year?
theyre going bankrupt 8)
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I thought for sure that Cave releasing ESPGaluda II on the iphone was a april fools joke, but damn if that trailer doesn't look authentic.

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sven666 wrote:
ZOM wrote:SO, what has irem in store this year?
theyre going bankrupt 8)
That was actually funny. (even if it wouldn't be too far-fetched...) :mrgreen:
But seriously. no irem shenanigan this year? They did semi-funny stuff for the past 10 years, a shame to break this tradition.
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that i phone gag had me going for a while as it was in a video and cave have released iphone games b4 and i thought i had seen news about it (or another upcoming iphone Cave game) last week. I was like - wow that looks cool! but i was amazed asto why there was no slowdown hehe dint relise until later

Irem is still going? I had always asumed they had gone the way of toaplan and compile years ago. What are they up to nowdays? do they still have their fingers in the shooting pie?
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TrevHead (TVR) wrote:Irem is still going? I had always asumed they had gone the way of toaplan and compile years ago. What are they up to nowdays? do they still have their fingers in the shooting pie?
When they're not turning their most successful franchise to an entirely other genre, they publish PSN & cell phone games.
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TrevHead (TVR) wrote:that i phone gag had me going for a while as it was in a video and cave have released iphone games b4 and i thought i had seen news about it (or another upcoming iphone Cave game) last week. I was like - wow that looks cool! but i was amazed asto why there was no slowdown hehe dint relise until later
pretty sure thats for real
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What's Blizzard's joke this year?
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jonny5 wrote:
TrevHead (TVR) wrote:that i phone gag had me going for a while as it was in a video and cave have released iphone games b4 and i thought i had seen news about it (or another upcoming iphone Cave game) last week. I was like - wow that looks cool! but i was amazed asto why there was no slowdown hehe dint relise until later
pretty sure thats for real
Yes, it's definitely real. News broke about it on March 3rd.
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Irem had an elaborate MMORPG ("MMMMUSO RPG") parody called Semifinalist Fantasia up this year. The joke was that it was for Playstation Home, and they just put the project "on hold" and are selling the IP off. Seems like they've taken the webpage down now though. He's a trailer. You gotta wonder what games they could have made by now with all the effort they put into their April Fool's Day stuff.
Of course, that's just an opinion.
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I don't like april fools shmup jokes...get me all geeked for a letdown :x
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ROBOTRON wrote:I don't like april fools shmup jokes...get me all geeked for a letdown :x
So what ur saying is that ur were stoked about that LE and now ur mad cos u cant get it?

So which was it? planning on buying the LE pack and selling it on ebay in the future? or was it that u wanted those boxers to go out on the pull with?
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TrevHead (TVR) wrote:
ROBOTRON wrote:I don't like april fools shmup jokes...get me all geeked for a letdown :x
So what ur saying is that ur were stoked about that LE and now ur mad cos u cant get it?

So which was it? planning on buying the LE pack and selling it on ebay in the future? or was it that u wanted those boxers to go out on the pull with?
Negative, humanoid....I was thinking of the aledged Gradius Arc game mentioned in another thread.

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30383
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:P

still, at least a gradius game is coming out thank the shmup god
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Not a shmup-joke, but still cool: http://www.razerzone.com/venom/

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sven666 wrote:
ZOM wrote:SO, what has irem in store this year?
theyre going bankrupt 8)
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Not an April Fool's Day joke in the usual sense, but I think my favorite this year was Sam Hocevar's 4/1 blog post.
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TrevHead (TVR) wrote: Melty Blood Sky Stage Game http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... y4E1XvH-NQ

edit: shame its just a joke as i would really dig playing this
as a melty fan, i'd play it too :/
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