Top 10 April Fools Pranks in Gaming
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Top 10 April Fools Pranks in Gaming
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#10. PlayStation Flow
#9. Fez is Coming Back
#8. Tactics Alexander
#7. Sonic in “Smash Bros. Melee”
#6. Roach Was “Too Good”
#5. Ark Survival Devolved!
#4. TerraTron
#3, #2 & #1: ????
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If you are filipino you will laugh at it 0:35
@Direk_Carla
5 жыл бұрын
yep! PWET means ASS~
@mjsugod1385
3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha
PS flow would work amazingly work with subnautica
@suradulprime
4 жыл бұрын
Just imagine you saw a leviathan 😂
I’m not sure but I think the April fools joke on this video was when they said subscribe for more “great” content
@ladgd3020
6 жыл бұрын
StaticCloud they literally say that in any video. I know this cuz my sister always watches watchmojo with me
@datboiblaze1817
6 жыл бұрын
Lad [GD] im pretty sure he means the videos are bad
@xantoon6737
6 жыл бұрын
StaticCloud you think your "content" is good?
@gameplayxtreme3389
6 жыл бұрын
Lad [GD] r/wooosh
@Th3RealUnknown
3 жыл бұрын
@@xantoon6737 i dont think he said that goof ball
Nintendo Direct April 1, 2019 “Best April Fools prank ever pulled by Nintendo!” - Me
@udontfeelsogood9037
4 жыл бұрын
Let's take a look! *snaps*
Half life 3 will be the biggest lie in gaming.
@ryanshenkman9467
6 жыл бұрын
GATLCS X naw it’s no mans sky
@TheRichieFFX
6 жыл бұрын
What about the cake tho
@fatboykicks7412
6 жыл бұрын
You right ..
@stutudi4881
6 жыл бұрын
Therealbjr It got good But far too late
@Realrockruss
6 жыл бұрын
Therealbjr you rt
Optimus prime in titanfall would be amazing tnough!
@doomslayerprime9749
6 жыл бұрын
big yachty all so true man
@sonicmario64
6 жыл бұрын
I doubt it because of the game being a first-person shooter, and it's not exactly fun to not be able to see the character that you're playing as. :P
@RatBoyDunce
6 жыл бұрын
your titan has an A.I so you can just call in a titanfall and watch optimus kill everyone
@RatBoyDunce
6 жыл бұрын
you could replace his ordinance with him turnig into a truck and charging forwards
@ineedbeanz7555
6 жыл бұрын
I think it was fan made
I was so disappointed when I realised Optimus Prime in Titanfall was a joke:/
@anonymouspotato825
6 жыл бұрын
MadSnowman samw
@silenc3068
6 жыл бұрын
So was I, that would’ve been awesome
@pilotraptor64
6 жыл бұрын
Same
@sleepypanda6979
5 жыл бұрын
yea it woulda been PERFECT
@diacsquad1117
5 жыл бұрын
Me too
I remember when people where saying master chief was in brawl
Holy fuck I want Optimus in the next titan fall, omg.
@Justin_in_NC
6 жыл бұрын
HAIL MEGATRON
@firedupgamers9968
6 жыл бұрын
xTGE yea I know i wanted a optimus prime in titan fall 2
@fastcoolness
6 жыл бұрын
Hell yea boi
@syedbadriz198
6 жыл бұрын
How about the whole cast of transformers..and make it 32 v 32 lmao
@jacobpieters4500
6 жыл бұрын
xTGE ha nope
I remember thinking the Optimus in TF1 was real
I like the way Warthunder changes the game on April 1. I remember flying around as air forces of Equestria shooting nearly infinate rainbow rockets at enemies.
You guys completely missed out on EGM "announcing" a way to fight against Shen Long in SF2! Lord knows how many people spent a ton of money at arcades trying to achieve it. Lol The magazine article even had "screenshots" of it along with a Shen Long sprite
Arkham Knight's PC Port. lol
@themajesticspider-man6116
6 жыл бұрын
VJ Paraico Lol If only...
@Kytota
6 жыл бұрын
Well, they fixed it eventually. Mostly anyway but enough to run the game without affecting gameplay. Still, it shouldn't have happened in the first place.
One video game related April Fool's joke that nearly got me was the story in Electronic Gaming Monthly that said if one pre-ordered Twilight Princess they would get a copy of Wind Waker with a Twilight Princess makeover free. I forgot to take my copy of the magazine with me when I pre-ordered it; it was my intention to ask if there was any fact to the story.
@jacobmcmillan6787
6 жыл бұрын
William Norton that’s the opposite of good
@moskgaming6638
6 жыл бұрын
William Norton check out my channel
@fudjfjdufjfjt5161
6 жыл бұрын
Elizaveta Karabanova fuck you
@Internet_Guy99
6 жыл бұрын
--. . - / ..-. ..- -.-. -.- . -..
@trevorisaac1021
6 жыл бұрын
bobasthebob sorry I don’t read blind.
Fate/GO changing the Servant Portraits. Each on is comedy gold. Especially the Seiba-faces all sharing the same pose and expression.
This year has more awesome april fools than ever
I was expecting the Sheng Long prank to be on this list.
@hassankhalid8917
6 жыл бұрын
What DB? What prank
Razer's flying mouse is the single best April fool's day prank
@LustigelGC
6 жыл бұрын
No The mood joke in micky mania was better
@liammackenzie665
6 жыл бұрын
Ikr
@thegreyfedora8532
6 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure what you're talking about but your profile picture made me like your comment anyway.
@khamis6235
6 жыл бұрын
the 2018 one is also good
@ThatGuyCrOwn
6 жыл бұрын
khamis it was good but it was not project McFly, I loved McFly 😂
I love all the Blizzard April fools, and I still remember watching the Terra-Tron during the development cycle of SC2.
No one knew Bendy was going to be the master of video game prancing when this came out.
And sheng long in SF2? The most classic video game prank
@hersh23
6 жыл бұрын
That's what I was expecting to be #1!!
@ExpensiveForeigner
6 жыл бұрын
same here
@evknucklehead
6 жыл бұрын
Wasn't really a prank, more of a mistranslation. Granted, a lot of people came up with theories on what the line meant, but it wasn't one particular group trolling others. It also didn't start on April Fools Day.
@hersh23
6 жыл бұрын
evknucklehead In the April 1992 issue of EGM, the magazine had a full page spread on what you "had to do" in order to fight against "Sheng Long" in Street Fighter 2. It had ridiculous parameters and a sprite they had edited to make it look like a new character. It was, obviously, done as an April Fool's joke If you scroll about halfway down this page, it talks about it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_Long But in a sense, it was the mistranslation that was the inspiration for the April Fool's joke
@syafiqjabar
6 жыл бұрын
It did get Gouken added to SF4 though. Capcom have been playing along with the joke ever since.
Pokémon GO became a joke after its release... And nobody was laughing.
@rdu239
6 жыл бұрын
William Crowe And still no Pikachu found!
@Max-rc1wb
6 жыл бұрын
I remember that for several weeks you could be anywhere and have random strangers ask you if you found any good Pokémon nearby.
@SuperGuldo
6 жыл бұрын
why are you so butthurt about pkm go?
@LustigelGC
6 жыл бұрын
100th like
@dontmindme5879
6 жыл бұрын
After a year i worked so hard spent litterally 5 hours a night walking my local park, and my pofile got deleted 🙄🙄🙄🙄 fuck pokemon go and i refuse to start over
I love how the Tactics Alexander prank featured Mide Hotogo and Shanoa XD i would've actually played that.
My favorite gaming April fool's gag has gotta be Pandaren in WCIII. Blizzard announced a playable unit of Pandaren coming to Warcraft 3 and the community got so unexpectedly hyped that they ended up going with it and Pandaren became a major part of the lore and the main focus of WoW's 4th expansion.
Path of Exile : ROYALE is a pretty good april fools, and the community loved it (I think).
Minecrafts villager sounds sound pack. IT WAS SO GOOD
@rexxe001
6 жыл бұрын
KCHgamer what about the new one
@redacted5092
6 жыл бұрын
I blasted the speakers with that joke.
One clever April Fools joke was when EALA teased a new unit for Red Alert 3 called the Mammoth Tank. The unit was a Mumakil from the BFME games with the turret from the C&C3 Mammoth Tank on the top. The unit never made it into the game (obviously) but EALA did release the art files for the unit and modders have been making use of it.
That Play Station swimming device for Subnautica. Let's go champ!
No man's sky
@micah4029
6 жыл бұрын
Please elaborate.
@arnavgupta882
6 жыл бұрын
Micah-David Saunders No man's lie
@arnavgupta882
6 жыл бұрын
Tetra gaming's biggest lie
@micah4029
6 жыл бұрын
I understand the disappointment in the game, I was just wondering if there was something that tied it to April Fools' Day.
the ponies in war thunder back in 2013 were quite funny
LOL I remember the Playstation Flow prank. Oh God it cracked me up so much :3
Anet had some awesome april fools pranks in relation to Guild Wars 1/2 Like the Commando class reveal for GW2 :D
Number 9... im not crying you're crying
Wow I had no idea u can go Inside that robot 😱
@imjustsupa4163
6 жыл бұрын
INVESTING HUSTLER - Stocks and money making videos first of all, they’re called Guardians. And second of all, I honestly didn’t know that either. I gotta try that!
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links' April Fool's events are gold. Having Kaiba's BEWD summon animation turn into Blue-Eyes Maitenance Dragon and an entire freaking week-long invasion of Tristan Taylor is outrageous in my opinion.
Assassin's Creed for Kinect is still one of the funniest things I have ever seen.
i love your videos watchmojo. but a really cool aprils fools joke was akuma in resident evil 2 by gamefan magazine. with some pretty convincing gameplay pics. check them out.
half life 3, valve can count to 3
@TheCaptainSplatter
6 жыл бұрын
Joking aside they did make 3 counter strike games. 1.6 (I believe) Source, and Global Offensive.
@allshipper2158
6 жыл бұрын
Alucard Hellsing doesn't count
@Mental_Warlock
6 жыл бұрын
iRapplexD made 3 famous games of there's but, can't make 3 sequals lol
@Alexandra8620
6 жыл бұрын
why are there level 3 engi stuff then?
Well, it's nice to see that they really did implement Sonic later on
No Super Adventure Box? Probably the best April Fools content in any game. They even made an 80s retro style TV Ad.
Akira's Fighting layer ex was a April fools joke that is becoming a real game now.
no mention of Yoshi in Pokemon Red/Blue by nintendo?
"We all know what happened from there." *Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu plays in the background*
Remember how Arika’s new Fighting EX Layer game started out as an April Fools prank, until the fans willed it to reality, and it looks actually hype now?
ubisoft fake ass e3 releases are a good example.
@Jormyyy
6 жыл бұрын
Derek Tom DAMN
@trpl7
6 жыл бұрын
Fake releases?
@lennywhere
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah in e3 when they showed watch dogs, the graphics were ultra but it was all fake and in the final there wasnt even close to that graphics
@amideadyet268
6 жыл бұрын
Rainbow six: patriots will be releasing in 2015. We hear about the development hell the game is in. fuck.
@amideadyet268
6 жыл бұрын
siege is still awesome af though and I'm not complaining.
War thunder has had some pretty amazing April . fools day events. Some of which ended up being testing grounds for future updates
@helectrostudiogaming6920
6 жыл бұрын
officershepherdsa like (I think) this year the submarines if they would include that in the marine update it would be cool
@redacted5092
6 жыл бұрын
Helectrostudio Gaming no this year was hats the size of your turret
You didn't even mention one of the biggest trolls by Epic games. They made the impulse grenade extremely bouncy and if you got boogie bombed, you could jump into the sky really high. You have no idea how many people were killed.😂
xD i just learned of terra tron from this video as i just figured out Starcraft II was amazing
Number 10 Doesn't Seem to Ridiculous After You Watch Ready Player One :D
@JojoBlitz
6 жыл бұрын
ox PierceTheVeil Why Do You Type Like This? STOP PLEASE
Griffith did something wrong and Casca didn't enjoyed is a good april fools lie
@crazyBloodmonkey
6 жыл бұрын
bro you almost killed me that shit lol
Who else thought the poke ball at the end was going to stop moving right as the final shake happened lol good memories
There are those pranks where everyone is having a good time afterwards and is laughing at the silly idea and that they believed it. And then there are those pranks where you fake smile on the outside and say "Good one!" and shake your index finger, pointing at the prankster, but inside you just died a little.
I guess my favourite April fools prank is War Thunder when they made these KV-2 walking tanks which was really cool I think it was in 2016 or 2017?
@jointaimbot55
6 жыл бұрын
Oropher420 it was 2016. 2017 was the ships 🚢 and. 2015 was flying ponies
@jointaimbot55
6 жыл бұрын
Oropher420 don’t quote me on that
@declanolivetti4319
6 жыл бұрын
jman_jd10 I thought 2017’s was The modern tanks like the M1 Abrams and helicopters?
@jointaimbot55
6 жыл бұрын
Oropher420 oh yeah
@redacted5092
6 жыл бұрын
2018 was my first war thunder april fools. I got the sombrero.
videogamedunkey returns too league of legends
Game developers clearly “test the water”, then they buckle and HAVE to put the real thing up there 😂
That Zelda trailer had me in tears at the time...
Does Yugioh Duel Links technically count? In a way they trolled me into thinking that a new playable character or at least a character you can actually play against in the game?
@axceldoesgaming4892
6 жыл бұрын
gboi gamer I saw Tristan and said to myself finally than got trolled by konami
@CryoSting520
6 жыл бұрын
It’s a really good one. Everybody who plays Duel Links want Tristan in the game even though he dueled like one time in the show and lost so he’s no “Legendary Duelist”. So to imagine these people getting excited to finally unlock him only to realize it probably was too good to be true haha
@yo-zg5dh
6 жыл бұрын
That game sucks ass stfu
Some of my favorite April Fools Day Pranks by devs has been from Wargaming.net the makers of World of Tanks and World of Warships. They are always doing fun things seemingly just because "why the F not?" like for the FIFA finals they made a minigame in WoT where two teams played soccer... In tanks! But for this holiday they show their sense of humor. From the WoT one where they essentially made it to where your shots were nyan cats, rainbow tracer and all, to last years "bathtub battle" in WoWS where you were teams of bathtub toy boats with obstacles like giant rubber duckys and bubbles, shooting sounded like a squeak toy. This year though they really went all out in WoWS. They made SPACE BATTLES, as in, they took a bunch of top tier ships and reskinned them as beautifully rendered space ships and the islands are asteroids and stuff. Honestly it's SO beautiful that it could actually be its own game in and of itself! Also the ships and commanders all have names that are spoofs on classic Sci-Fi.
@DataDownLynk
6 жыл бұрын
I do enjoy Wot events, but I feel that WT has a better hold on the april fools prank trophy. recently though, their pranks have been testing beds for future implementations.
@harv5425
6 жыл бұрын
Sylentlight war thunder is better
I remember an issue of egm that told you how to unlock Akuma in Resident Evil 2. It even had screenshots of akuma shooting a red fireball and everything.
nice of you to add the ChoGall part about WoW ogre race... But, the Terratron is never fought by us in "The Lost Viking" Campaign Arcade companion part, it must be from another mod! (I got the achievements from going through all of it and cant recall it actually....)
Have you seen PixARK? That's Ark *Devolved*
@kersaherpafuqer784
6 жыл бұрын
But it's better, because it isn't broken to all hell like Ark on console
@Ducksquare
6 жыл бұрын
alexnt1966 let a poorman dream
WHERE THE HELL IS YOSHI FROM POKEMON?
@augustoblanco4205
6 жыл бұрын
I know right!!! That removed 2 months of my life!!!!!
@donkeykong4983
6 жыл бұрын
RC Hai Can you explain to me about that joke k can find it
Tbh... Flow sounds neat in the opposite sense. Basically waterproof vr googles. So when you are swimming you can see fish and stuff
I'm that one guy who would get PlayStation Flow just to trick myself into thinking I'm exercising.
It's just a prank!!! Just a prank bro!
@maedraa
6 жыл бұрын
How old are you?
@UnversedXIII
6 жыл бұрын
Why does it matter?
War Thunder is best on April Fools day
The top two were a given. Man, I was upset when realizing the Zelda movie wasn't happening
SquareEnix's Final Fantasy XIV GO & the harvester stick from this year & Bioware's SWTOR Ship Droid game from a few years ago were really good.
Rocket League’s vegetable ranks and giant toppers?
@adamfunofficial
6 жыл бұрын
YES
this video was uploaded on april 1st so that means this video is a fool lol
One that got me was the announcement of a Lego Halo game
Lol, ive were alredy thinking abou what if Transformers and Titanfall mix... Wow
Oh wow another top ten.
U FORGOT BLOODLUST AS WEEKLY DEMON ON GEOMETRY DASH!!!
The one that fooled me the most was EGM’s Announcement that if you preordered LoZ:Twilight Princess you’d get a free copy of a remade Wind Waker with realistic graphics.
I’m still hurt by the Zelda one till this day lmao
I fell hard on the Zelda trailer back in 2008, gosh I hate you IGN haha
@djpegao
6 жыл бұрын
Antonio Carlos same man, i've never forgot how excited i was thinking it was real.
@VG02
6 жыл бұрын
Me, too 😂 It was also the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this video & laughed when I saw it pop up at #2.
Not even mentioning Warthunder? That's low
@samuelclemmons3915
6 жыл бұрын
Kysman95 war thunder is free to play. Nobody cares about a stupid vehicle game
@moltencor8610
6 жыл бұрын
Kysman95 yeah, war thunder has the April fools events
@Fran-sr1sb
6 жыл бұрын
I commented the same thing
@QueenNaya
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah nobody cares about the 4th most played game world wide
@helectrostudiogaming6920
6 жыл бұрын
Yea I thought the same thing war thunder (gajing) as pretty f*** up April fools I was surprised to not see it although this year it was more cool then bizarre like submarines that's cool I would see that with the ship realeas
When #4 came on I couldn’t have been the only one thinking “Damn, we need a new Starcraft!” Was I???
had a good feeling this video would be an april fool's joke
Hey watch mojo did you forget about final fantasy tactics war of the lions?
@Dw7freak
6 жыл бұрын
That's a remaster, not a new game. It doesn't count. Otherwise you could count the psstore releases of FF Tactics for ps3, psp, and ps4, as well.
Scott Cawthon... Just Scott Cawthon Edit: Wait this April fools pranks.
Purple Prizes. It was such a realistic prank that became something of an urban legend amongst Mario 64 DS players. No I haven't finished watching the video yet.
CDProjekt RED has had some good pranks. Between Witcher 1 and 2 they said that retro is trending and so they swapped Witcher to an 8 bit. They even made a trailer and a dev interview. During the interview a dev's coworker would burst in and say, in Polish, that the fridge is broken, and the dev has to cut the interview short.
What about the War Thunder ponies?!
War Thunder? Nothing??? The snail? The fucking FLYABLE MY LITTLE PONY
@wuppieigor
6 жыл бұрын
Mason Clark 8bit mode and space in world of tanks, or bathtub in world of warships are fun too
@chrisstraw6697
6 жыл бұрын
I was really surprised that neither War Thunder or WoT got any mention. They've had some fun ones over the years.
@someguyfromfinland4239
6 жыл бұрын
Wt is too shit to be on this list
@plumpstery5199
6 жыл бұрын
submarines
@plumpstery5199
6 жыл бұрын
and some guy from finland, how much did you pay for that premium roast
Dokkan battle and Naruto blazing are some of the worse and best ones lol
I've got one. Pink Bean, from MapleStory. When the Temple of Time was first introduced, players were expecting some huge, hideous abomination - if not the Black Mage himself - at the end, after a quest chain that required genocide on at least three-thousand mobs, total. Instead they found this cute, adorable, bean-shaped fellow. Who was pink. Who was, indeed, deadlier than any other boss to date. Course, unlike any other April Fool's joke, players LOVED him, and they decided to make him a permanent boss.
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What about War Thunder. It’s basically their holiday
@hydroastral2830
6 жыл бұрын
Tyme Eppers ikr? Its like April Fools is Beta Testing day First ships Then modern tanks and helis Now submarines
@sytricka3318
6 жыл бұрын
It used to be actual april fools events, but now the devs became really fucking lazy. Now april fools is for them to test shit
@mihailazar2487
6 жыл бұрын
what about the flying ponies and THE GIANT-ASS SNAIL THAT SHOOTS LIGHTNING ?
@mihailazar2487
6 жыл бұрын
also there was the EISEN KAPUT AND FLYING FLAPJACK
@sytricka3318
6 жыл бұрын
Mihai Lazar The ponys and gaijila were cool, but last years and this years april fools were just tests, there was nothing funny about them. The other two that you mention werent even april fools events, those are just user made missions
I think that the bigger Pokémon April Fools prank was Yoshi in Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow. I mean in the 90s, magazines were the go to thing for information so almost everyone with the game tried their hardest to get all 151 Pokémon trade Dratini, level it up to a Dragonite, Trade it back, and use a fire Stone where Mewtwo was to get Yoshi.
0:32 PWET hahaha! 😄
Number 1 should have been Gouken on Street Fighter 2!!!
@Darwingreen5
6 жыл бұрын
Henrique Barduchi or th r fact they got us again years later with Street fighter 3.
@M613M
6 жыл бұрын
You mean Sheng Long.
@o_bebeco
6 жыл бұрын
+MDI Gaming HAHAHAHAHA! Exactly! =D
@o_bebeco
6 жыл бұрын
+Darwingreen5 Yeah, man! Hahahahaha! EGM Motherfuckers! Hahahahahaha! Those double fireballs were sick!!! And they did add it on SFIV!!! Master is one of the coolest characters! Hope he comes back on V!
*nEW rAnKS In WaR ThuNDeR*
@dave2885
6 жыл бұрын
Impurial Buis nearly the least funny april fool of WT.
I think this list should have world of tanks blitz duck battles 😂
Dark Souls GO! We should be rolling on the pavement fighting with VR sticks
You forgot something... Lara Croft’s Nude Code.
URF ftw
@tretter7
6 жыл бұрын
i thought nerf was a much better executed "prank", but i guess urf is where it all started. WM doesnt give a flying fuck about league though so it probably wouldnt be on here anyway
@ravenousokros2054
6 жыл бұрын
Ke
One of my favorites was when Marvel "announced" Aunt May would be a playable character in Ultimate Alliance 2
Some pretty funny April fool's jokes come from Hi-Rez studios and their game Smite. This year was similar to last year but even so, they are a great thing to make ya laugh.