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Best Game of the Year and Best April Fools Joke

Submitted by jonathan on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 9:37pm

One of the biggest surprises this April Fool's day was GameTap's release of Captain McGrandpa - Memory of the Forgotten. You download the game and when you go to play it, a launcher appears. You click on Play Game and your redirected to a thread on the GameTap forums where TheRedEye is the Game Master and the community responds with direct commands like a Text Adventure.

At first glance this seems strange, but once I started playing it---I was hooked! The game started an old man named Captain Grandpa who needs to figure out what he's supposed to be doing that day. The game ended at 6pm when we found out he was scheduled to be on a game show.

You had to follow it to fully appreciate it, but it wins my vote for Best April Fools Joke, even more than the World of Warcraft April Fools jokes. I hope to see more like this from GameTap.

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Submitted by BigJon on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 1:14pm.

Very interesting.

Haven't heard from you in a long time. How's the internet been treating you?

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Submitted by jonathan on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 10:09am.

It's been treating me pretty good. Been working on different types of internet projects.