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As we’ve seen recently, video game PR stunts are often quite wacky; there was Acclaim wanting to pay speeding fines on the day Burnout 2 was released for PS2, there were some Turok name changing stunts and a queuing geek with a “Turoc” emblazoned tent, and Nintendo sponsoring Des “thinking woman’s crumpet” Lynam’s tache to promote Mario Sunshine, but it seems the Big N have gone too far with their latest stunt.
In promoting their latest Zelda game, entitled ‘Winds of Takuto’ where wind is somehow involved in the gameplay, it is believed that Nintendo accidentally changed worldwide weather patterns, giving Britain the heinously strong winds we’ve seen recently.
It is believed that Nintendo funded technicians invented a special super villain style giant weather machine which, like a mung-bean, lentil and chickpea curry, gives gusts of strong wind on demand and was used at a special PR event in Japan to officially unveil the game to the public.
Whilst the crazy wind show left Japanese crowds laughing into their Sushi at the various wind based activities that were organised including extreme kite flying, zephyr gurning, wind aided Moonwalking competitions, opening your jacket slightly and letting the wind blow in making you look fat contests and more, however, it had profound snowball effects elsewhere by making big out of control wind patterns in far off places.
Weather experts in England, including the hilariously monikered BBC weathermen Michael Fish and David Brain were left flabbergasted by the changes and were surprised that it was actually due to human intervention and not just the fury of Mother Nature.
Mr. Fish, who famously failed to predict the hurricane that lashed Britain in 1987, and also failed to forecast this bad weather, furrowed his brow and fell to his knees saying, “Not again! How can the same **** happen to the same guy twice? This bad weather came out of the blue, how could I have possibly forecast this one God darn it!”
In a press conference, a befuddled looking Nintendo spokesman stated that “Whilst Nintendo acknowledges that it did temporarily create excess wind in promoting Zelda, we didn’t mean to cause worldwide chaos”, and promptly apologised for the damage and injuries caused.
And of course, the world being the nice place it is, with no hint of animosity or compensation culture, people accepted their good-natured apology and forgave the cheeky funsters.
It is believed that bad weather even caused temporary problems with many chatforums around the world, forcing millions of nerds to shut off their computers and experience real life, though when the systems were back online, they were back and promptly moaning about the situation.
Ironically for Nintendo, as there were so many power cuts around due to the high winds with fallen trees and flying cows damaging power lines, many people couldn’t play their Gamecubes and were left playing Gameboy Advances with light add-ons, some even resorted to playing with old cup-and-balls for entertainment.
‘The Legend of Zelda: Winds of Takuto’ will be released in the US and UK in 2003, but Nintendo have abandoned plans to hold similar wind based PR events for fear of further damage to property and reputations.
Also, in a similar move, Sony’s plans to rubbish the Xbox by symbolically showing its demise by dropping one from a Playstation branded hot air balloon were halted as experts said that due to the hefty weight of the machine, it would cause major earth tremors and even tidal waves, and may even lead to dinosaur style extinction of the human race.
The moral of the story is that we shouldn’t mess with Mother Nature and create excess wind for enjoyment, not even Nintendo.
In promoting their latest Zelda game, entitled ‘Winds of Takuto’ where wind is somehow involved in the gameplay, it is believed that Nintendo accidentally changed worldwide weather patterns, giving Britain the heinously strong winds we’ve seen recently.
It is believed that Nintendo funded technicians invented a special super villain style giant weather machine which, like a mung-bean, lentil and chickpea curry, gives gusts of strong wind on demand and was used at a special PR event in Japan to officially unveil the game to the public.
Whilst the crazy wind show left Japanese crowds laughing into their Sushi at the various wind based activities that were organised including extreme kite flying, zephyr gurning, wind aided Moonwalking competitions, opening your jacket slightly and letting the wind blow in making you look fat contests and more, however, it had profound snowball effects elsewhere by making big out of control wind patterns in far off places.
Weather experts in England, including the hilariously monikered BBC weathermen Michael Fish and David Brain were left flabbergasted by the changes and were surprised that it was actually due to human intervention and not just the fury of Mother Nature.
Mr. Fish, who famously failed to predict the hurricane that lashed Britain in 1987, and also failed to forecast this bad weather, furrowed his brow and fell to his knees saying, “Not again! How can the same **** happen to the same guy twice? This bad weather came out of the blue, how could I have possibly forecast this one God darn it!”
In a press conference, a befuddled looking Nintendo spokesman stated that “Whilst Nintendo acknowledges that it did temporarily create excess wind in promoting Zelda, we didn’t mean to cause worldwide chaos”, and promptly apologised for the damage and injuries caused.
And of course, the world being the nice place it is, with no hint of animosity or compensation culture, people accepted their good-natured apology and forgave the cheeky funsters.
It is believed that bad weather even caused temporary problems with many chatforums around the world, forcing millions of nerds to shut off their computers and experience real life, though when the systems were back online, they were back and promptly moaning about the situation.
Ironically for Nintendo, as there were so many power cuts around due to the high winds with fallen trees and flying cows damaging power lines, many people couldn’t play their Gamecubes and were left playing Gameboy Advances with light add-ons, some even resorted to playing with old cup-and-balls for entertainment.
‘The Legend of Zelda: Winds of Takuto’ will be released in the US and UK in 2003, but Nintendo have abandoned plans to hold similar wind based PR events for fear of further damage to property and reputations.
Also, in a similar move, Sony’s plans to rubbish the Xbox by symbolically showing its demise by dropping one from a Playstation branded hot air balloon were halted as experts said that due to the hefty weight of the machine, it would cause major earth tremors and even tidal waves, and may even lead to dinosaur style extinction of the human race.
The moral of the story is that we shouldn’t mess with Mother Nature and create excess wind for enjoyment, not even Nintendo.
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Totoro wrote:
> Also, in a similar move, Sony’s plans to rubbish the Xbox by
> symbolically showing its demise by dropping one from a Playstation
> branded hot air balloon were halted as experts said that due to the
> hefty weight of the machine, it would cause major earth tremors and
> even tidal waves, and may even lead to dinosaur style extinction of
> the human race.
Hey they created the earthquakes in Manchester! Damn those SONY people for dropping an Xbox down on those poor people in Dudley, Sony could have at least let Nintendo try it as well...
> Also, in a similar move, Sony’s plans to rubbish the Xbox by
> symbolically showing its demise by dropping one from a Playstation
> branded hot air balloon were halted as experts said that due to the
> hefty weight of the machine, it would cause major earth tremors and
> even tidal waves, and may even lead to dinosaur style extinction of
> the human race.
Hey they created the earthquakes in Manchester! Damn those SONY people for dropping an Xbox down on those poor people in Dudley, Sony could have at least let Nintendo try it as well...
It wouldn't surprise me. The people who give out the speeding fines wouldn't be too happy, but then they can't stop Acclaim paying for people's fines if they give the person the cash. For all they know, Accalim could be paying them to buy something. Unlikely, but on the law's side, that is how it would appear, and so Acclaim could, in theory, pay the fines without much hassle.
I think Acclaim were forced to abandon the idea of the speeding fine thing weren't they?
Nice post mate, but here is the primary scientific reason for Nintendo causing our naff weather (despite the fact it is sunny at the moment - however, I expect it shall rain within the next few hours, as it has pretty much every day here :D):
As we’ve seen recently, video game PR stunts are often quite wacky; there was Acclaim wanting to pay speeding fines on the day Burnout 2 was released for PS2. Due to the ammount of speeding on the day of the release of Burnout 2, emmisions were much higher that day, causing a build up in our atmosphere which is slowly being released over a period of time (this week?).
That said, it means XBox and PS2 are also responsible, as B2 is on both those consoles also :P
Gimme a damn nobel prize!
As we’ve seen recently, video game PR stunts are often quite wacky; there was Acclaim wanting to pay speeding fines on the day Burnout 2 was released for PS2. Due to the ammount of speeding on the day of the release of Burnout 2, emmisions were much higher that day, causing a build up in our atmosphere which is slowly being released over a period of time (this week?).
That said, it means XBox and PS2 are also responsible, as B2 is on both those consoles also :P
Gimme a damn nobel prize!
Lol! :-D
As we’ve seen recently, video game PR stunts are often quite wacky; there was Acclaim wanting to pay speeding fines on the day Burnout 2 was released for PS2, there were some Turok name changing stunts and a queuing geek with a “Turoc” emblazoned tent, and Nintendo sponsoring Des “thinking woman’s crumpet” Lynam’s tache to promote Mario Sunshine, but it seems the Big N have gone too far with their latest stunt.
In promoting their latest Zelda game, entitled ‘Winds of Takuto’ where wind is somehow involved in the gameplay, it is believed that Nintendo accidentally changed worldwide weather patterns, giving Britain the heinously strong winds we’ve seen recently.
It is believed that Nintendo funded technicians invented a special super villain style giant weather machine which, like a mung-bean, lentil and chickpea curry, gives gusts of strong wind on demand and was used at a special PR event in Japan to officially unveil the game to the public.
Whilst the crazy wind show left Japanese crowds laughing into their Sushi at the various wind based activities that were organised including extreme kite flying, zephyr gurning, wind aided Moonwalking competitions, opening your jacket slightly and letting the wind blow in making you look fat contests and more, however, it had profound snowball effects elsewhere by making big out of control wind patterns in far off places.
Weather experts in England, including the hilariously monikered BBC weathermen Michael Fish and David Brain were left flabbergasted by the changes and were surprised that it was actually due to human intervention and not just the fury of Mother Nature.
Mr. Fish, who famously failed to predict the hurricane that lashed Britain in 1987, and also failed to forecast this bad weather, furrowed his brow and fell to his knees saying, “Not again! How can the same **** happen to the same guy twice? This bad weather came out of the blue, how could I have possibly forecast this one God darn it!”
In a press conference, a befuddled looking Nintendo spokesman stated that “Whilst Nintendo acknowledges that it did temporarily create excess wind in promoting Zelda, we didn’t mean to cause worldwide chaos”, and promptly apologised for the damage and injuries caused.
And of course, the world being the nice place it is, with no hint of animosity or compensation culture, people accepted their good-natured apology and forgave the cheeky funsters.
It is believed that bad weather even caused temporary problems with many chatforums around the world, forcing millions of nerds to shut off their computers and experience real life, though when the systems were back online, they were back and promptly moaning about the situation.
Ironically for Nintendo, as there were so many power cuts around due to the high winds with fallen trees and flying cows damaging power lines, many people couldn’t play their Gamecubes and were left playing Gameboy Advances with light add-ons, some even resorted to playing with old cup-and-balls for entertainment.
‘The Legend of Zelda: Winds of Takuto’ will be released in the US and UK in 2003, but Nintendo have abandoned plans to hold similar wind based PR events for fear of further damage to property and reputations.
Also, in a similar move, Sony’s plans to rubbish the Xbox by symbolically showing its demise by dropping one from a Playstation branded hot air balloon were halted as experts said that due to the hefty weight of the machine, it would cause major earth tremors and even tidal waves, and may even lead to dinosaur style extinction of the human race.
The moral of the story is that we shouldn’t mess with Mother Nature and create excess wind for enjoyment, not even Nintendo.
In promoting their latest Zelda game, entitled ‘Winds of Takuto’ where wind is somehow involved in the gameplay, it is believed that Nintendo accidentally changed worldwide weather patterns, giving Britain the heinously strong winds we’ve seen recently.
It is believed that Nintendo funded technicians invented a special super villain style giant weather machine which, like a mung-bean, lentil and chickpea curry, gives gusts of strong wind on demand and was used at a special PR event in Japan to officially unveil the game to the public.
Whilst the crazy wind show left Japanese crowds laughing into their Sushi at the various wind based activities that were organised including extreme kite flying, zephyr gurning, wind aided Moonwalking competitions, opening your jacket slightly and letting the wind blow in making you look fat contests and more, however, it had profound snowball effects elsewhere by making big out of control wind patterns in far off places.
Weather experts in England, including the hilariously monikered BBC weathermen Michael Fish and David Brain were left flabbergasted by the changes and were surprised that it was actually due to human intervention and not just the fury of Mother Nature.
Mr. Fish, who famously failed to predict the hurricane that lashed Britain in 1987, and also failed to forecast this bad weather, furrowed his brow and fell to his knees saying, “Not again! How can the same **** happen to the same guy twice? This bad weather came out of the blue, how could I have possibly forecast this one God darn it!”
In a press conference, a befuddled looking Nintendo spokesman stated that “Whilst Nintendo acknowledges that it did temporarily create excess wind in promoting Zelda, we didn’t mean to cause worldwide chaos”, and promptly apologised for the damage and injuries caused.
And of course, the world being the nice place it is, with no hint of animosity or compensation culture, people accepted their good-natured apology and forgave the cheeky funsters.
It is believed that bad weather even caused temporary problems with many chatforums around the world, forcing millions of nerds to shut off their computers and experience real life, though when the systems were back online, they were back and promptly moaning about the situation.
Ironically for Nintendo, as there were so many power cuts around due to the high winds with fallen trees and flying cows damaging power lines, many people couldn’t play their Gamecubes and were left playing Gameboy Advances with light add-ons, some even resorted to playing with old cup-and-balls for entertainment.
‘The Legend of Zelda: Winds of Takuto’ will be released in the US and UK in 2003, but Nintendo have abandoned plans to hold similar wind based PR events for fear of further damage to property and reputations.
Also, in a similar move, Sony’s plans to rubbish the Xbox by symbolically showing its demise by dropping one from a Playstation branded hot air balloon were halted as experts said that due to the hefty weight of the machine, it would cause major earth tremors and even tidal waves, and may even lead to dinosaur style extinction of the human race.
The moral of the story is that we shouldn’t mess with Mother Nature and create excess wind for enjoyment, not even Nintendo.