So, browsing the internet, I found an article that I found particularly amusing. I have to give it to the pranksters. They really know how to hit people where it hurts. I wonder if anyone fell for it...

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/04/01/april … t-ix-fans/

But to give this topic a bit more life, what kind of April Fool's pranks have you pulled or been a victim of?

When I was nine, I tried to fake my own death by getting a steak knife, and ripping my shirt, and pouring all the red food colouring I could find onto the carpet. I screamed as loudly as I could, lied down on the floor, and when my mom saw the carpet, she got so mad, she beat the hell out of me. I think she was also made about the shirt I ripped.

I never really tried anything after that.

Have you guys seen that video about the new yedelling game for the xbox 360? D:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUBQknWUEYU

Don't forget it's also Reala day so go switch those SEGA saturns on and put the Christmas NiGHTS disk in!

I hope this is the final Dragon Quest in the series, it's gotten so old and stale by now!

These 2,000 fans got exactly what they deserved today, for continuing to support such a rehashed franchise.

I'm just glad that you didn't accidentally cut yourself with the knife.

Sorry to hear that your mother beat you, though.

Eh, it was never quite so bad as all that, but I did get struck when I deserved it. And I was a pretty bad kid growing up, so it happened quite a bit.

Can't recall any really noteworthy pranks that I've pulled on others, but I remember my older brother getting me good with a gaming-related one.

So I was maybe twelve or thirteen.  We were out in the driveway, and Ken and his buddy are about to leave with the car.  He starts backing out of the driveway, when suddenly, there's this awful "crunching" noise.  Ken stops the car, shouts, "What was that?!", and they both jump out.  We all scramble to the back of the car to find an original model Game Boy, smashed and crushed into bits under the wheel.  Ken goes, "Oh shit, that's right.  I was borrowing your Game Boy, Ange, and I had placed it down for just a minute on the floor.  I completely forgot about it." 

After the initial shock sunk in for a few seconds, I think I was swelling up into what might have been one of the biggest fountain of tears I ever let shed.   "My awesome portable gaming system, reduced to bits."  -_-;  And then the double-hurt revelation, "Oh no, my relatively new copy of Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins was in there, too!"  >_<;  Just before that happened, he and his friend scream, "April Fool's!!" and burst out laughing.  Turns out the broken Game Boy was actually his friend's.  It was pretty much beaten up and broken already, as he apparently took it apart a long time ago to see what makes it tick, so they used it as the bait for their cruel little joke.

Boy, was I upset.  I've come to forgive him eventually, of course, and I can laugh back on it now; he did, after all, buy me a spiffy new Game Boy Color and a copy of Super Mario Bros. Deluxe years later as a means of forgiveness.  But yeah, such an asshole. ;p

Your brother is awesome!

That sounds like shit I'd do to my sister's barbies.

She was, like, five one time. I got home before she did from school (I was ten), so I stuffed little sister Kelly into the little play oven that came with the kitchen set, and had Ken making out with another female doll (Barbie had several friends), while Barbie was beheaded on the floor. Pretty gruesome for a five year old to see, and when my mom found out I did that, all makin' my sister cry so bad, I got a lickin' like you wouldn't believe.

Man, I was such a douche back then.

Hmph.  Gonna say you deserve that one.

Men.  Sheesh!!

Are you on good terms with your family members nowadays?

Of course, that was when I was a kid. My sister and I laugh about all that stuff nowadays, but my mom always sighs and tells me I was a huge handfull, so I'm sure I scarred her in some way.