Looks like Nintendo pulled off possibly the greatest troll in video game history!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on June 14, 2011 · 2:00 AM 
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110 Responses to “The Greatest Prank Nintendo Ever Pulled”

  1. SirNumel on June 14th, 2011 2:06 am

    Sony: Forever Alone?

  2. CakeBard on June 14th, 2011 2:09 am

    I expect all of you guys to say NOTHING but "U MAD MICROSOFT?"

  3. The_AntiVillain on June 14th, 2011 2:10 am

    really hope the wii u controller can support 4 controllers instead of just 1

    ehem nintendo…

  4. DrewP367 on June 14th, 2011 2:12 am

    I thought the Water Temple was the greatest prank nintendo ever pulled?

  5. MasterLuigi452 on June 14th, 2011 2:19 am

    So true…

  6. MasterLuigi452 on June 14th, 2011 2:20 am

    SCREW YOU XBOX!
    WE ARE NINTENDO!
    WE ARE WII-NNING!

  7. Zyquux on June 14th, 2011 2:28 am

    U MAD CAKEBARD?

  8. Darkangelsv1 on June 14th, 2011 2:35 am

    I think the correct phrase is "Wii U MAD, MICROSOFT?"

  9. Darkangelsv1 on June 14th, 2011 2:37 am
  10. Darkangelsv1 on June 14th, 2011 2:38 am
  11. Joeybeta on June 14th, 2011 2:40 am

    I expected wolf to show up at microsoft's E3 conference but this is even better.

  12. Bobomberman on June 14th, 2011 3:01 am

    In an unrelated story: hundreds of Microsoft workers in the Xbox company branch have been found dead at their homes by way of suicide.
    More at eleven

  13. Fearow on June 14th, 2011 3:10 am

    Totally read that as "Why umad, microsoft?" and was reminded of a good trolling from last week on Terraria. Plus one to you good sir for helping me remember this.

  14. vash_ts on June 14th, 2011 3:22 am

    i dont wanna imagine how the emulator will be…
    its the buttons and touchscreen of a DS AND the motion sensor?
    god help us all…

  15. Jimmy on June 14th, 2011 3:32 am

    Post comic, it ends up on Halolz without any credit given to finder…2nd time in a row…

  16. Rocker23220 on June 14th, 2011 3:37 am

    O_o ……wtf is this?!?

  17. Darkangelsv1 on June 14th, 2011 3:48 am

    High Octane Nightmare Fuel, that's what it is.

  18. GameboyPATH on June 14th, 2011 3:49 am

    Video comments section, bro.

  19. Dimomarg on June 14th, 2011 4:02 am

    THE CONTROLLERS OF HISTORY
    Future: iPads with buttons
    Present: Motion Controls.
    …Now let's go back in time shall we? DOODELY DOODELY DOODELY DOOT

  20. Kristoph Gavin on June 14th, 2011 4:16 am

    I don't think the Temple was a prank. Think of it as the greatest TROLL in history of gaming.

  21. Kristoph Gavin on June 14th, 2011 4:17 am

    Oh, the plight of an unadored Pokemon Trainer…

  22. Kristoph Gavin on June 14th, 2011 4:18 am

    So THAT'S why Xbox quality is going down!

    If it wasn't crappy anyway.

  23. Kristoph Gavin on June 14th, 2011 4:19 am

    OH GOD TV TROPES KILL IT WITH FIRE

    Zelda 2 reference. If you don't get it, you suck.

  24. RemielChibus on June 14th, 2011 4:23 am

    It's alright. Sony will come up with a peripheral to turn their glowy motion control fairy wand into a controller again! Wait…

  25. Pisko on June 14th, 2011 4:32 am

    I guess you found the reason of why the prime minister of Australia hates games so much….

  26. NekoKnight on June 14th, 2011 4:49 am

    Oh, and this just in…
    VIDEO GAMES ON TABLET CONTROLLERS

  27. Kristoph Gavin on June 14th, 2011 5:02 am

    "Last E3 post I swear! …Maybe!" -Shawn Handyside

    SHAWN Y U POST MOAR E3 STUFF

  28. Zyquux on June 14th, 2011 6:08 am

    KRISTOPH Y U NO LIEK E3 JOKES?!

  29. Zyquux on June 14th, 2011 6:16 am
  30. Redzeroine on June 14th, 2011 6:18 am

    The Water Temple was simply to show that Nintendo had the power to screw us over. Imagine a whole game with the same difficulty as tha- . . . oh wait.

  31. Hindsight on June 14th, 2011 6:26 am
  32. Kristoph Gavin on June 14th, 2011 7:05 am

    AAH! A TV TROPE! KILL IT! KILL IT!

    Oh, it's gone.

    Good…for it.

  33. greenxboy on June 14th, 2011 7:13 am

    IN HD!!!!!

  34. TheRedGrunt on June 14th, 2011 7:33 am

    I read somewhere that Halo 4 might have kinect. I would post an ascii Picard facepalm, but the stupid character limit won't let me.

  35. CriticalQuit on June 14th, 2011 8:05 am

    The best part about being the innovator out of the 3 is that you can innovate faster than your competition and leave them in the dust. It's like evolution but with video games!

  36. walktovanish on June 14th, 2011 9:02 am

    What did Microsoft expect? It took them YEARS after the Wii to come out with Kinect.

  37. SUTBComics on June 14th, 2011 9:03 am

    ON MOTORCYCLES!!!

  38. Psycroc on June 14th, 2011 9:04 am

    WII U MAD?

  39. SUTBComics on June 14th, 2011 9:04 am

    MY PS3 won't evolve. I thought it was a Dusk Stone evo.

  40. Dimomarg on June 14th, 2011 9:11 am

    KRISTOPH WHY YOU HIDE THINGS FROM APOLLO?

  41. Dimomarg on June 14th, 2011 9:17 am
  42. Sagevale on June 14th, 2011 10:27 am

    They have learned that others copy them,

    2006 "Wii can trap them"

  43. Rocker23220 on June 14th, 2011 11:01 am

    VIDEO GAMES ON TABLET CONTROLLERS??

  44. Leo E. on June 14th, 2011 11:14 am

    So I'm the only one who never found the Water Temple difficult?

    Sheesh, and I was five at the time.

  45. Doctor Rover on June 14th, 2011 11:27 am

    To scheme another day?

  46. Doctor Rover on June 14th, 2011 11:33 am
  47. smashpro1 on June 14th, 2011 11:42 am

    Watch this shit, and call me back: http://www.gamesradar.com/f/ocarina-of-time-video

  48. smashpro1 on June 14th, 2011 11:43 am

    We are Wii-gion!

  49. TheQueenofSouls(DT) on June 14th, 2011 11:56 am
  50. Kevvo on June 14th, 2011 11:58 am
  51. Leo E. on June 14th, 2011 12:08 pm

    I've seen video walkthroughs of it. It boggles my mind how people don't know how to navigate a dungeon.

  52. Alpar on June 14th, 2011 12:27 pm

    E3 this year.

    <img src="http://lolbot.net/pix/16781.gif"&gt;

    That is all.

  53. Alpar on June 14th, 2011 12:36 pm

    To be fair, the water temple wasn't hard for me either. The only extremely difficult part was finding that key under the block… well actually, not difficult. More like something people overlook.

  54. Hejiru on June 14th, 2011 12:44 pm

    DIMOMARG Y U SPELL "WHY YOU" CORRECTLY?

  55. Vabolo on June 14th, 2011 12:50 pm

    WII-SISTENCE IS FUTILE!

  56. MoG on June 14th, 2011 12:51 pm

    Seems like Microsoft
    -Sunglasses-
    Got the wrong point
    YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEA

  57. Vabolo on June 14th, 2011 12:57 pm

    You have a 50% of finding it not so hard, and a 50% chance of using the key to open the wrong door.

  58. Dimomarg on June 14th, 2011 12:58 pm

    BECAUSE A ROBOT FROM THE FUTURE TOLD ME TO!

  59. tmotom on June 14th, 2011 1:01 pm

    Looks like he…
    (sunglasses)
    *WiiiiiiiUUUUU WiiiiUUUU!!*
    Stupid sirens… What was I going to say…

  60. Vabolo on June 14th, 2011 1:04 pm
  61. Mentlegen on June 14th, 2011 1:04 pm

    His body wasn't ready for that troll.

  62. HughbertEsq on June 14th, 2011 1:05 pm


    Hey RD, can you scoot over a little? thanks
    *whimper*

  63. HughbertEsq on June 14th, 2011 1:06 pm

    *reads aloud*
    That… that does not sound right…

  64. HughbertEsq on June 14th, 2011 1:10 pm

    ROBOT Y U NO LEAVE DIMOMARG ALONE?

  65. Vabolo on June 14th, 2011 1:11 pm

    Eye see what you did there.

    Sony and Nintendo have tuxes, Microsoft has no glass.

    At least Microsoft isn't as shade-y as the other two.

    Every possible CSI Miami joke.

    That should keep this comment thread a lot shorter.

  66. Brendan_Birch on June 14th, 2011 1:19 pm

    You have no idea.

  67. Xyxoz on June 14th, 2011 1:21 pm

    MIB.

  68. HughbertEsq on June 14th, 2011 1:22 pm

    "Oh yes and it has an iPad built in, and a DS… and I think one free pet George Clooney"

  69. tmotom on June 14th, 2011 1:29 pm

    But the camera… FOLLOWS YOU!!!

  70. Lord_Science on June 14th, 2011 1:48 pm

    inb4cardgamesonmotorcycles

  71. Lord_Science on June 14th, 2011 1:50 pm

    bleep bloop, I have so many achievables!

  72. CakeBard on June 14th, 2011 2:43 pm

    Damn, wish I thought of that.

  73. TopRattata on June 14th, 2011 4:22 pm

    The Nintendo "Wii UMad, bro?"

  74. Jimmy on June 14th, 2011 4:24 pm

    LOL You probably had like, an older cousin or brother help you out and you just don't remember (or wiped it from your memory). I never bought Ocarina of Time for the N64 (at the time I thought Zelda games were too hardcore. I was eight and didn't know better. I eventually got into Wind Waker for the Gamecube and I did a complete 180°. So now, I'm a BIG Zelda fan.) ANYWAY, playing the game for the first time on the Virtual Console for Wii, I was like "I see a cracked wall in front of me, I can only assume that they want me to blow it up, but how the F*** am I supposed to get there?!? Every time I moved the water level, it would be either too low, or too high…) Man, that temple was a BITCH. Fight with Dark Link made up for it though. IMO.

    DAMN, THIS WAS LONG.

  75. Jimmy on June 14th, 2011 4:31 pm

    Alternatively (Especially more true now that Luigi's Mansion 2 is coming):

    <img src="http://img.imgcake.com/Deathnotejpges.jpg"&gt;

  76. CriticalQuit on June 14th, 2011 4:40 pm

    Your PS3 is trying to learn PlayStation Move!

  77. smashpro1 on June 14th, 2011 5:54 pm

    It was really more about becoming annoyed by having to constantly pause to equip/unequip the iron boots.

  78. penguindude42 on June 14th, 2011 6:37 pm

    Hilariously enough, it's an EyeToy clone. On a POS console made by a fairly decent computer company.

  79. shadow649 on June 14th, 2011 6:46 pm

    I remember that! I replied to it with something funny! (I think…)

    Maybe shawn will post that! WOOOOH!

  80. ReploidArmada on June 14th, 2011 6:47 pm
  81. Nyoron on June 14th, 2011 6:51 pm

    Ah nintendo. The same company that made me obsessed with mario now makes me obsessed with giant controllers. CURSE YOU, VILLAIN!

  82. ReploidArmada on June 14th, 2011 6:52 pm

    Recent Past: Controller pads with screens
    Distant Past: Really, really terrible motion controls

    I'm beginning to see a pattern here…

  83. ChemicalKirby on June 14th, 2011 7:16 pm

    They forgot frame 1.5 where Microsoft says "Oh Sh!t, THIS IS MAKING MONEY!? LET'S DO IT"

  84. SonicsmyName on June 14th, 2011 7:19 pm

    IN AUTO-STEREOSCOPIC 3D!

  85. PortalMan118 on June 14th, 2011 7:23 pm

    ok let me get this straight, Mircosoft and sony copy nintendo. Mircosoft still goes and copys nintendo, while sony is kinda using the technology. Nintendo then goes and copys Apple. 5 bucks says next year mircosoft is going to annouce the X-pad

  86. Zethyr on June 14th, 2011 8:15 pm

    Didn't Xbox have oversized controllers WAAAAAAY before it was cool?

  87. gangler on June 14th, 2011 9:20 pm

    It's actually pretty easy. We just need four mice. The first one is for the touch screen, and the other three each control a coordinate axis for the motion controls together creating three dimensional movement. Maybe a fifth mouse for tilt?

    The only problem is that now only people with 5 or more usb ports can emulate the Wii U, but them's the breaks.

  88. Vabolo on June 14th, 2011 9:36 pm

    At least you lost TV Tropes and the evil game it plays with your mind.

  89. TheFoolOfMon on June 14th, 2011 10:23 pm

    tmotom stop trolling, the right is be troll king is MINE!!!

  90. Jimmy on June 14th, 2011 11:07 pm

    Nah, he had the SNES. Remember?

  91. shadow649 on June 14th, 2011 11:07 pm

    I comprehend what you said just now. It was clever and I hate you so much now. :) Have a nice day. I won't.

  92. brent917 on June 15th, 2011 12:57 am
  93. Dimomarg on June 15th, 2011 4:07 am

    I guess you could say we're
    *sunglasses*
    DOODLING in time
    YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

  94. GenCasar on June 15th, 2011 6:28 am

    Nintendo's suddenly black.

  95. Zyquux on June 15th, 2011 7:08 am
  96. Dracojounin7 on June 15th, 2011 9:50 am

    I need to spend more time here…

    Anyways, I'm the same way… the Fire Temple was the hardest for me, and only marginally.

  97. FlareKitsu on June 15th, 2011 9:57 am

    Inb4 Xbox rips off another Nintendo design

  98. TheViolentLoli on June 15th, 2011 10:44 am

    Shouldn't Nintendo be the old white guy that has lots of experience?

  99. Frankenstrat247 on June 17th, 2011 1:56 am

    all according to keikaku. translator's note: keikaku means plan!

  100. camwoodstock on June 18th, 2011 11:21 am

    Xbox just got destroyed.

  101. camwoodstock on June 18th, 2011 11:22 am

    They thought wii-u wouldn't exist until it was proven.

  102. Alpar on June 18th, 2011 8:51 pm

    Not until your gen came along.

  103. flaminscull3 on July 22nd, 2011 12:40 am

    They made the EyeToy years before the Wii was created, so they're just thinking how slow the other two companies are and sipping their martinis

  104. dejime73 on August 2nd, 2011 9:36 am

    personally,i think nintendo's new console are stupid,i mean,3ds,wii u,what the hell?
    they should have stopped after the wii came out,because this just make me realize that i must buy a xbox
    but thats just me

  105. dejime73 on August 2nd, 2011 9:38 am

    the wii u is a wii and a ds taped toghether

  106. Kittari on August 16th, 2011 10:35 am

    THAT is why Nintendo is still a financially sound company. They are the innovators who will lead humanity toward the future (of gaming, at least.)

  107. ZtheWise on August 28th, 2011 9:51 am

    the iPad™ is Apple's

  108. ZtheWise on August 28th, 2011 9:52 am

    I think Sony was the one being ripped off by the Kinect. Anyone remember the PlayStation EyeToy™?

  109. Kittari on October 6th, 2011 6:48 pm

    I think Nintendo was the one being ripped off by Sony. Anyone remember the Playstation Move™?

  110. darksonic1 on September 23rd, 2012 1:40 pm

    How does the wii u work again? Do you buy the consol or does it hook up with your wii consol?

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