The best April Fool's joke this year was Rock Paper Shotgun doing a full day of news, previews, reviews, and interviews like it was 1993.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/04/02/back-to-the-pre-working-for-future-1993/#more-27887The absolute best part of it was that the readers in the comments section played along, saying things like this:
"Will this run on my 386? I might finally have to shell out for that soundblaster card.."
"Can anyone tell me if this will play nice with the Windows Chicago beta, or do I have to play in DOS mode?"
"Man, if games start looking this good already, imagine what another 20 years will do for storytelling and game design!!"
"Bah, just upgraded to a P90 for this as well!"
"Just another example of a PC game getting dumbed down for the mouthbreathing Sega crowd. I predict that in fifteen year’s time all games will have their interaction reduced to a single button which you have to quickly press in time to events appearing on screen. I predict they will be called: pushing a button quickly in time to events on the screen events."
"Will I have to be connected to the internet at all times to play Sam & Max? I mean, it’s not a big issue because I have super fast 56k, but it’s a chore connecting and the dial tone scares my gran."
"My mate made a copy and gave me a floppy with this on. He says its aint illegal cause its shareware (whatever the hell that means…). I dunno tho. doesn’t seem right to me."
Followed by:
"DON’T COPY THAT FLOPPY"
With the best comment being:
"Yeah, right. The PC will never take off as a gaming platform.
Firstly, who can afford a 100Mhz 486? Or a Pentium for that matter? There’s no dedicated graphics capability on the machine, and you have to spend hours configuring the RAM to get anything to work.
You don’t even have proper sound on the PC either, just this stupid little buzzer unless you spend £50 on a weird add-on made by someone else.
Seriously, the Amiga and ST are the way forward, if only because you can plug them into the TV. Plus they’ve got decent WIMP environments like Workbench and GEM. Windows is crap and a complete rip off, and can’t run more than one thing at a time.
The PC is a complete mess and can’t hope to compete. You see that pile of junk in the loft in 17 years time? That’s your PC that is."