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11:00 PM on 07.22.2009 | Jim Sterling

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FOX News pays odd homage to Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time photo

#HAHA Weird! #Nintendo 64 #The Legend of Zelda

Well, you don't see that every day. FOX News obviously has an N64 player among its ranks, and while it wouldn't surprise me that the dinosaurs at FOX have only just discovered Nintendo's 64-bit system, what does surprise me is the fact that they snuck some music from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time into one of their stories.

Hit the jump and check out the video. Brings back memories and really makes me want to track down an old N64 and play the game again. Nice to see that not everybody at FOX is a clueless f*ckstick, right?

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48 comments | showing # 1 to 48

Intruder

Haha, that's awesome!

VashTS

Pritty sneaky!!!

Magnalon

VERY WEIRD. It sounds just like the songs they play during those "inquisitive" parts of stories, though!

Related to the stories: ah, scam companies. I remember being rused into an interview for one once. Never again. As soon as the interviewer said "we selected ONLY your resume out of hundreds of candidates!" I felt a chill.

lwelyk

Wow I thought my local news stations were bad, but that guy sounded like an annoying commentator for a funniest home videos thing.

TheCleaningGuy

For the first 58 seconds, I was like "what?"
Then I heard it. :)

Zeta Crossfire

wait could they of meant the people AND the music was a shame? i mean they ARE fox news btw so ya....

JtheYellow

Worth pointing out that this is a local affiliate and a regional news team doing a "gotcha" story about their area, it's not FOX or FOX News per se.

Phoenix Gamma

Buaha, that was pretty funny. I love that stupid little jingle.

Guncannon

Cockrell: 6XXL.

The innuendo stands for itself.

Also, good effort by the news team, except: why didn't you call the cops for the employment agency and assault by the landlord?

Nitex

That was pretty odd, yet funny.

Monodi

Uh. Seriously?

wanderingpixel

I refuse to watch Fox News. However, that is awesome.

Sentry

At first I was going to comment that the song near the end is from "The Last Guy" but decided to do a little bit of research before sticking my foot in my mouth. Turns out the song I'm familiar with in that game is actually a variation on an oft-covered song called "Popcorn", originally recorded by Gershon Kingsley in 1969.

/uninteresting history lesson

Thank you crappy news station, for inspiring me to learn something new.

D Sane

That is totally weird, but the mood of the music is totally fitting for what they were going for.

TriggerRedd

Fox News sued for illegal use of copyrighted property! Princess of Hyrule seen topless at local beach!? And, find out how Lon Lon Milk can KILL YOU! Story at 11!

Brlito

This seems like too high-budget to be a shitty little local news station, this Hall of Shame thing seems like it's nationwide.

I don't think that ONE city (or local area) could have so many criminals.

Dexter345

Hee hee.

yuetheguardian

this was on my local fox station and I heard it live.

lastSKYsamurai

So, do FOX have to get Nintendo's permission to use the song? How does it work?

Corak

For some reason the music seemed to fit well given the context.

feighnt

good for the folks who were getting scammed that they did that video, but, man, that reporter was *terribly* obnoxious. he could sell junk in an infomercial!

cranes88

Ha. Fox News is much more knowledgeable than everyone on the internet and the other news stations give it. Don't be a slave to the liberal media.

Johnnyreb2565

Nice, Jim what a sublime way to show that a Fox affiliate is trying to do good and expose scams. If it takes game music to get it on the site so be it.

BTW, Fox is the Devil cause it is the only TV network that is not part of the of the Obama State Run Media. Keep up the good work.?!

ThunderHeartXI

Chances are some 20 something video editing intern stuck it in after putting on his nostalgia goggles. I doubt that the people who actually write for or talk on the show had anything to do with that music.

Artemus

Ha ha!
That is awesome!

vexed alex

This making the front page kinda' makes gamers look desperate.

Hey, Top Gear used a song from Halo once. News?

Adam

I guess they really wanted to use a song that would say to the viewer at home: "Hey, listen!"

Diverse

Wow, it's really freaky to hear that on national television for some reason. I feel like I'm in a bizarro world.

Chronic Logic

Time to search the intertubes and find all television shows that uses music from video games.

Nogarda

It didnt fit much. But that was the biggest obvious scam I've ever seen. People must be seriously desperate for a job to get shafted like that.

Midgetsnowman

@Cranes88: Its not their reporting thats the problem, is that their shows are just as neoconservatively biased (cuz they sure as hell aint conservative) as other news stations are liberal biased.

Magnalon

@The Fox Debaters
Jim reports on a random 10 second sound bite and it turns into a possible 50 comment FOX news fest - JOURNALISM!

MellowBunny

See Fox News would get more viewers if they played music from more video games.

timepants

@Brlito
"I don't think that ONE city (or local area) could have so many criminals."

It's Detroit. Believe it.

Hopeless Savage

This isn't the Fox News Channel, it's for a local station in Detroit. It's owned and operated by the Fox Television Network, which, outside of business terms, amounts to a very loose affiliation.

Not much room for climbing up on a soapbox about the shortcomings of whichever cable news network caught your particular ire, but hey, pay no mind to me, I'm only right.

Tyrotoxismist

Umm... Is this what news is like in the USA, or is it just Fox?

This wasn't reporting, it was just... well... almost commentary. It's the kind of thing you'd find on a not-particularly-serious show here in the UK, like Rogue Traders or something, not the news.

x.x

Gilgi

God i love Detroit, so much action..

Touya

He used it because the guy looks like the Lon Lon Ranch farmer :D

ouched

Hopeless Savage is dead on. This isn't the nationally syndicated cable network, its their Detroit affiliate that they don't control the daily operations of.

The cable network does enough to earn the ire of gamers that one doesn't need to grasp at straws.

@ Tyrotoxismist
How is a local news organization alerting citizens of a scam just commentary? So I take it a local news paper posting a story about a restaurant in it's locality with numerous recent health code violations is just commentary as well?

Galenmereth

What the fuck? One minute in and no Zelda; please give me back my wasted minute now. One minute is one minute of attention more than I'm willing to give to any FOX broadcast, ever.

3uho

LOL this kakariko village looks wicked !

kwaselow

Jim, local news from a fox affiliate is NOT fox news. I'm from Metro Detroit, and I know that these guys are solid.

funran

Kwaselow,

Fox news and it's affiliates are still fox news, as it's on the, you know, fox channel...

HiddenAHB

It must be a mistake.
We're talking abou FOX afterall.

fozzyozzy

So we get Zelda music and a middle-eastern man yelling obscenities at cameramen? How is that not the perfect story?

Arch649

I smell a lawsuit brewing.

Saborlas

I suppose that's the proper timeframe. Fox News, out of fear of being seen as progressive, will not use any technology until it's been a dozen years since it was released. So the guy who put the music in is playing OoT for the FIRST TIME.

Fortunately, by the time they discover Halo 2, most of us will have moved on. I just KNOW it'll trigger another wave of slinging homophobic slurs at people with superior skillz.

carmatic

ironic that they are using the music from that plays when you are in the shops, in a story about an employment agency!

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