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E3 Movie Cache Highlights Microsoft's Apprentice Spoof

Posted by simoniker on 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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  1. Preemptive anti-slashdoting by Teancom · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Looks like the movie hosted on teambox won't allow anything referred from slashdot in. Just copy the url into a term and use wget (like a real man ;-).

  2. Mirror by Pfhor · · 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

  3. What's E3 good for? by BortQ · · Score: 4, Funny
    For me to poop on!!!!

    Yeah, alright. The _real_ hardcore game companies are the ones that don't have any money to go to E3. Like me for example. See my sig for details.

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  4. Did they really just spoil the ending? by catmaker · · Score: 2, Insightful


    Way to go guys! Might not be the best idea to branch out into movie reviews though.

    "Not least for the ending, where we find out that Tyler Durden has in fact been the narrator's imaginary friend all along."

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  5. Re:A Donald Trump MMORPG? by Funk_dat69 · · 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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  6. Maybe Microsoft by falcon5768 · · 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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