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The worst part about this video is that it's more or less indistinguishable from a real Wii rip-off product advertisment. Vii, Wii, Pii, they all sound kind of like something you might see peddled at that shady random electronics store wedged between girly fashion hangouts in your local mall. Who actually buys stuff from those guys, anyway?

At any rate, I'd guess the Pii is not real, considering there are people cracking up laughing in the background at the majority of this video. Of course, that could be because the presenter is mimicking Borat, because somehow people still think that is funny. You can have Pii for fifty American dollar! Har har!


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xe-cute's Avatar
xe-cute at 09/09/2008 14:32
Jeez, the cameraman is "almost" as bad as the one who shot the destructiod panel at Pax08.
grafkhun's Avatar
grafkhun at 09/09/2008 14:33
what a waste of time.
Leathersoup's Avatar
Leathersoup at 09/09/2008 14:37
Wow... they're trying to pass off a Commodore 64 Disk drive off as a console?
Uziwood's Avatar
Uziwood at 09/09/2008 14:37
Zomg, what's with the CG at the bottom of the screen ?
Perry Simm's Avatar
Perry Simm at 09/09/2008 14:40
Not bad. I lol'd.
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Redzie at 09/09/2008 14:46
I kinda thought of the voice to be a like FOBish asian accent.
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myaimistrue at 09/09/2008 15:09
Hey, "waiting" by the rentals played in the background! Sweet, gotta dig up that old album again...
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parrothead at 09/09/2008 15:23
Funny, but the camera could be better
Professor Pew's Avatar
Professor Pew at 09/09/2008 15:44
Why not $31.4?
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Zen Albatross at 09/09/2008 15:47
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Zen Albatross at 09/09/2008 15:48
Hahah, they showed this at the New Jersey NAVA meetup a couple months ago. Good stuff.
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mr spooky at 09/09/2008 15:52
The pii is my new favorite console.
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Friedrich at 09/09/2008 15:52
You're right Leather soup, that looks like an old 1541 or 1570 old Commodore 5 1/4 floppy drives...lol.
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funky at 09/09/2008 16:09
I think I am sexy
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moominsean at 09/09/2008 16:24
that was so unfunny i couldn't watch the entire thing.
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DR EGG at 09/09/2008 16:50
I was AT that NAVA! I'm forgetting the name of the guy/girl duo who made this vid, but they're awesome peeps.
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FrankieViturello at 09/09/2008 18:07
HOLY CRAP we made it to a news byte on Destructoid??!!

Here are links to the actual clean video versions from my YouTube account :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7fpuWi3Gmw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYEXUa-6ZmM
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rice cracker at 09/09/2008 18:32
Like the Pii, I have been known by the state of California to cause cancer.
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Cataract at 09/09/2008 18:43
Memories...
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FrankieViturello at 09/09/2008 18:43
You know, when somebody sent me this ... my first impression was - AWESOME! Then ... I realized that it was a video of the video playing on a TV ... THEN I realized that the funnier of the two videos was missing ... But I figured, hey, no big deal ... I'll just contact the staff writer or owner of the blog ... only to find that she has absolutely no email contact information on any of her blogs and her PM's are disabled on all the services she's on.

So ... hey ... Ms. Bennett, if you're out there, and you'd like to link to the two videos on my above comment, that would be farknig fantastic.

Thanks again for showing this video some love!
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Rifter01 at 09/09/2008 23:07
I'm sold! Where do I get such a fantastically marvelous item? I'll have to check the flea market/swap meets. :)
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FrankieViturello at 09/09/2008 23:26
"...the presenter is mimicking Borat..."

Acutally, I was kind of going for more of a "Yakov Smirnoff" vibe ... the character runs a game company that's a remnant of the 80's Western Bloc Soviet marketplace selling rip-off gaming look-alike merch.

Borat is great and all, but this character is a more of a cold-war throw-back.
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John B at 09/10/2008 08:55
@Rifter01:

Commodore 64 and 1541/1571 drive. :)
GohanGVO's Avatar
GohanGVO at 09/10/2008 23:35
Good for some lulz!
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