Unfortunately, any excitement quickly devolves into more awkwardness as Bayer tries to regain control of the situation. With any luck, they'll get to see a luchadore clothesline a security guard. It's safe to say this wasn't part of the script, as Bayer clearly starts to panic, unable to control his beefy buddies. The wrestlers ignore Bayer's words and begin to hop around a bit, then one of them grabs the belt. Things get heated in a bizarrely awkward fashion as Bayer holds the title belt aloft and states "gentlemen, save it for the ring". A video message plays on screen and the lucha lads start kicking off.
Then come the chest chops, and some members of the crowd play along, probably in disbelief. No, really.Īs Bayer weighs the third and the audience inevitably starts to lose interest, the first two wrestlers begin pushing and shoving one another. Bayer then introduces the audience to a set of scales and proceeds to weigh the athletes. A cautious applause ripples through the crowd as the wrestlers remove their robes and flex their muscles. "What a great crowd," says Fedrico Bayer, first party liaison for publisher Slang, as he walks out on stage alongside a trio of masked wrestlers, title belt slung over his shoulder.īayer goes on about the game for a good few minutes, and then things take a turn for the worse as he introduces his masked mates, who have been standing patiently behind him this entire time. It's live action followed by some gameplay, and it's for the ill-fated wrestling title Lucha Libre Heroes del Ring. There's applause from the audience - likely brought on by relief - before the awkward silence returns for another minute or so.ġ8:28 - 20 minutes in and we have our second trailer. Simmons talks for another four minutes before a trailer for Def Jam Rapstar finally hits the screen. There's some whooping from the audience - the first bright spot of the presser so far. After four solid minutes of talking, Perrett welcomes hip-hop producer Russell Simmons on stage. The camera cuts to the Konami logo and the silence, now deafening, continues.Ĩ:30 - Def Jam Rapstar dev Nick Perrett rambles about his studio and the game, put on the spot by obvious technical difficulties. The lights then dim, and there's yet more silence.Ī minute or so later, the presenter says "can we roll the trailer, please?" in a clearly nervous, possibly slightly annoyed voice. An unbearably awkward silence grips the room as the game's presenter makes his way onto the stage. Almost immediately, the press conference starts to fall apart. Hirano relays his script well enough, but his robotic delivery is an unfortunate sign of things to come.Ħ:43 - Hirano leaves the stage and we're left with a title card for Glee Karaoke Revolution. It's a bit awkward and some of the games look bloody awful, but it's nothing out of the ordinary.ģ:45 - Konami president Shinji Hirano takes to the stage and gives an introduction in English.
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A CG intro movie plays in which a voice calls out the iconic Konami code.
Daniels also outlines the dangers of "ending up on the internet, in the sound at least", prompting inevitable noise from the crowd.Ģ:03 - It begins. At this point, no one could have foresaw the unmitigated disaster that followed. If not, we've jotted down our own reactions, minute by minute.Ġ:03 - David Daniels, head of Konami US marketing, lays down some ground rules for the audience and attempts to sow the seeds of hype. If you want to put yourself through hell, you can watch the whole thing below. As such, we've gone through the trouble of sitting through the entire thing all over again, and let's just say that it still blows our minds. With this year's E3 just around the corner, we wanted to travel back in time and revisit Konami's presser in all of its, er, glory. The company was pushing enough product to warrant its own E3 press conference, and in 2010, it delivered what is widely regarded as the worst E3 showcase of all time. At this point in time, Konami was still publishing a good amount of games, believe it or not. A global stage where dreams are made and fanboy tears are shed.Īnd then, there's Konami. In particular, companies like Sony and Microsoft are embracing E3 as means of generating hype and excitement for upcoming hardware and software. The year is 2010, and publishers are starting to spend more and more money on E3.
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