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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battletoads
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Battletoads
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2009-05-15T01:42:51Z
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2007
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Battletoads Preorder
<h2>About Battletoads</h2>
<p>Battletoads by Rare Ltd. was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991. A number of sequels were produced including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battletoads_in_Battlemaniacs">Battlemaniacs,</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00002STX6?ie=UTF8&tag=rocketboom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00002STX6">Battletoads & Double Dragon</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battletoads_(arcade_game)">Super Battle Toads Arcade</a></p>
<h2>Battletoads as a means of trolling</h2>
<p>On 4Chan when someone posts a screen shot from a videogame, a common troll is to reply which the phrase, “Is this Battletoads?” According to Dramatica, this troll predates the Gamestop pranks.</p>
<h2>Gamestop Preorder Pranks of 2007</h2>
<p>On September 12-14th 2007, Anonymous targeted over 40 Gamestop stores making prank calls requesting preorders of Battletoads II, Battletoads for the Wii, and other odd requests.</p>
<p>There was even a “website:” http://battletoadspreorder.com/ with gave a number to call for information on the game. The number given was a randomly chosen Church of Scientology phone number.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/customers_suck/23695308.html">this LiveJournal post</a> the behavior spread to eBaum’s world and continued in some degree for at least a month.</p>
<p>April 16th, 2008, a hoax Battletoads Wii Preorder video was uploaded to Youtube.<br />
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<p>A number of meme-heavy Battletoads hoax videos would be created over the course of the summer of 2008.</p>
<h2>Node 3: a half-hearted attempt</h2>
<p>On February 21st, 2009 a link entitled <a href="http://digg.com/space/Help_NASA_Name_Node_3_Battletoad">"Help <span class="caps">NASA</span> Name Node 3 “Battletoad”</a> appeared on Digg.com’s front page. This would soon be overshadowed first by a wave of fans of the cult hit <i>Firefly</i> voting for <i>Serenity</i> and then March 3rd, Stephen Colbert requested that his fans write him in for the naming contest.</p>
<p>At least one random Anon made a video proclaiming that Anonymous would remove his name from NASA’s list.<br />
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6HSkENd-IEs&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6HSkENd-IEs&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />
However, Colbert won the contest, and <span class="caps">NASA</span> chose to throw out the results and name Node 3 Tranquility instead.</p>
2009-11-11T23:10:40Z
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