April Fools on the web

Lunchbox · Post by **Lunchbox** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 12:35 pm

http://maddox.xmission.com/

he totally changed around his site and made some funny articles

And over at GameFAQs they put some quick animations in their logos and added some secret boards

butters · Post by **butters** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 12:58 pm

http://www.thoraxcorp.com/flashpage.html

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:47 pm

http://www.bash.org/

Vlad Tepes · Post by **Vlad Tepes** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:55 pm

Limited Edition "Virtual Boy" Gameboy Advance

The OK Pope · Post by **The OK Pope** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:17 pm

It's a site that rhymes with "pooper-gova"

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:28 pm

The OK Pope: Shhh!

liltimmyw · Post by **liltimmyw** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:00 pm

The OK Pope wrote:It's a site that rhymes with "pooper-gova"

Heh
Halfway into reading it, I realized that it's only a joke.

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:15 pm

Zophar's Domain, as per usual. Also, VGMusic seems to have done something a bit special, but not exactly a joke - they've added a cool little flash game to their front page.

mkjones · Post by **mkjones** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:15 pm

heres a great one:

http://www.phantom.net/

Post by **|darc|** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:24 pm

http://www.thinkgeek.com

ace · Post by **ace** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 6:49 pm

I just realized "pooper-gova" was a joke today!

Post by **|darc|** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:24 pm

Heh, I had to take advantage of that ThinkGeek promotion. I just bought 4 shirts (actually 4 for the price of 2)

The OK Pope · Post by **The OK Pope** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 9:08 pm

http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html

Post by **melancholy** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 11:47 pm

The OK Pope wrote:It's a site that rhymes with "pooper-gova"

It was a...

OMG IT WAS A JOKE! Jesus, I feel like such a tool now. I cannot believe I fell for that.

Post by **Specially Cork** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 1:16 am

melancholy wrote:
The OK Pope wrote:It's a site that rhymes with "pooper-gova"
It was a...

OMG IT WAS A JOKE! Jesus, I feel like such a tool now. I cannot believe I fell for that.

I have to admit, thats the only one I fell for....until they mentioned the satellite, then it hit me like a ton of bricks.

liltimmyw · Post by **liltimmyw** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 5:30 am

scykon wrote:
melancholy wrote:
The OK Pope wrote:It's a site that rhymes with "pooper-gova"
It was a...

OMG IT WAS A JOKE! Jesus, I feel like such a tool now. I cannot believe I fell for that.
I have to admit, thats the only one I fell for....until they mentioned the satellite, then it hit me like a ton of bricks.

Same here..But I fell for one more. Over at http://lpassociation.com

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 5:36 am

http://www.atlantictunnel.com/

liltimmyw · Post by **liltimmyw** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 5:38 am

Gamespot had a few fake articles up but they aren't there anymore. One was about a new GTA game that was rated E. Another was about some futuristic Godfather game, and the other was about David Bowie putting on a concert in Star Wars Galaxies

Post by **melancholy** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 11:50 am

scykon wrote:
melancholy wrote:
The OK Pope wrote:It's a site that rhymes with "pooper-gova"
It was a...

OMG IT WAS A JOKE! Jesus, I feel like such a tool now. I cannot believe I fell for that.
I have to admit, thats the only one I fell for....until they mentioned the satellite, then it hit me like a ton of bricks.

To be honest, I had no idea what they were talking about when they said a satellite was going up, so I just ignored it.