List of April Fools' Day jokes by McLeodGaming

This is an article about hoaxes and jokes on McLeodGaming.

April Fools Jokes
2008- On April Fools' day in 2008, Cleod9 replaced the forums with "Forums baleeted" as a parody of the mass account hacking and porn spamming that took place weeks before. The word "Baleeted" also comes from of an internet series called Homestar Runner in a cartoon called 50 Emails.

2009- On April Fools' day in 2009, Cleod9 announced that Nintendo had found out that he was making Super Smash Flash 2 and that Nintendo threatened to sue him if he did not shut down McLeodgaming and cancel the project. Cleod then put a link to what seemed to go to the Official Nintendo Forums, but actually went to the RickRoll'd video on YouTube. Cleod then announced that it was a an April Fools Joke and that SSF2 was still in development.

2010- Cleod9 did not post an April Fool's day joke in 2010. However, Smash Flash DOJO!! did a sort of joke, redirecting people to an "OBJECTION!" page, who said "You must be an April Fool if you didn't see this coming"

2011- A DOJO!! update was titled "Dojo Ending", and detailed the end of the Smash Flash DOJO!!. However, if the reader scrolls down the page, a "real" update shows telling of "trigger items", items that look like normal items, but when used, turn into shout-outs from Phoenix Wright (e.g. "OBJECTION!" "TAKE THAT!"), causing a variety of effects on the player. It is currently unknown whether the "trigger item" update is a hoax as well.

Hoaxes
2010- On January 30, 2010, SSF2 developer Damian, backed up by several other DEVs, spread a false rumor that Jigglypuff would be replaced with Gligar. This created an uproar amongst the members of the McLeodGaming Forums until the rumor was disproven on February 1 by the same developer.