E3 Movie Cache Highlights Microsoft's Apprentice Spoof

Posted by simoniker on Thursday June 3, 2004 @04:51PM from the lost-in-the-rush dept.

Thanks to Kikizo for its newly posted mammoth collection of freely downloadable E3 Expo-related game videos, recapping (if a little late) games and press events from "this year's massive Los Angeles event." Especially notable is Xbox press conference spoof 'The Novice' (58mb WMV) [there's a much better-quality 8MB WMV version at TeamXbox], which 1UP.com described at the time as "a send-up of reality show The Apprentice... portraying [J.] Allard, fellow vice president Peter Moore, and chief Xbox officer Robbie Bach trying to curry favor [regarding online gaming] with the real-life Donald Trump." Somewhat lost in the E3 rush, the spoof is worth re-visiting, not least for the ending, where the losing Sony team (with "actors portraying Sony vice-president Ken Kutaragi, SCEA head Kaz Hirai and SCEA vice president Andrew House") collectively get fired, at which point "none other than Bill Gates himself ducks under them and steals the cab before they can get in."

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Mirror by Pfhor · 2004-06-03 16:59 · Score: 4, Informative

teamxbox has a smart, slashdot referer block.
For those too lazy to copy and paste, here:
http://www.students.bucknell.edu/cbarker/the_novic e.wmv
Re:A Donald Trump MMORPG? by Funk_dat69 · 2004-06-04 04:19 · Score: 3, Informative

He says "How about a chu-chu rocket pack-in"

It's a japanese puzzle game with space mice trying to avoid space kitties. Sounds wack, but it's pretty fun.
Linky

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Maybe Microsoft by falcon5768 · 2004-06-04 05:00 · Score: 2, Informative

would do better NOT to be making these movies every event and actually focus spending their money on something important...
Like games and xBox live perhaps?

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