1UP Wii 'Bait n' Switch' prank

[Neuro]

Even reputed game journalists are not above gullibility. GameVideos.com Director Mark MacDonald sent us word of a prank he played in the 1UP / EGM offices recently where he used pre-recorded footage of Metroid Prime 2 and Auto Modelista, a "replica Wii joystiq [sic]," and a laptop battery posing as a sensor bar to fool more than a few editors that they had gotten a retail Wii unit in early.

Dan Hsu caught on quickly, after launching into a mini-tirade about unreturned e-mails to Nintendo. A few others, however, were no so lucky, even sitting down to play the games for many minutes before realizing they were mere marionettes in a sick and twisted mind game. All the embarrassment has been caught on tape, uploaded, and embedded below.

This video is effin' hilarious. I'm still laughing. I'd be so embarassed if I was a few of those guys, hahaha.

GameVideos.com - 1UP Wii 'Bait n' Switch' prank

 

[GreyKirby]

Not that funny :|
I mean i think it would have been VERY obvious ...

 

[I_WANT_WII]

HAHHAHAHAHAH Best prank I've seen in a while :lol:

 

[Close]

LMAO , Nice Find.:ee5k: :thumbsup:

 

[Joe]

.....well its not a bad prank...but its not a great one......

 

[Homesrfan]

Lmao, that made me laugh.
Really good prank IMO. I wish I could pull off something like that to my friends that want the Wii.

 

[Jenova]

xD That's awesome.

 

[tuned]

That video won't load for me... and I can't seem to find it anywhere else. Great website though, check out their shipment of Wii's here now if I could only get this prank to load, it'd probably be worth the patience finding it.

 

[Scuba Kid]

it was kinda lame.

 

[StevenNevets]

pretty good!:ihih:

 

[pmarc22]

not gonna lie, i found that pretty humerous... i couldn't believe those guys actually thought they were playing at first

 

[slurba]

Ha ha:thumbsup: