April Fool's Prank

The customary April Fools prank on MFGG is to change the forum in some way. Not often is the site itself affected.

April Fools 2002

MFGG was changed to WFGG — Wario Fan Games Galaxy, and Wario was made an admin, the entire event was sudden and unexpected, and very very subtle, taking a few minutes for everyone to notice. Some people wondered if Wario was an Admin in disguise, or if he was some kind of hacker, but it was enjoyed all the same. Some forum images depicting Mario were changed to Wario, such as the main Logo. Simultaneously, some avatars and signature images of various members were modified or altered slightly, such as being flipped upside down, inverted or swapped with other members. The only complaints came from 1 or 2 individuals who wondered if they'd get their avatars and sigs returned, however all images, sigs and avatars were saved, and returned to normal once it was over.

While an Admin, Wario made a number of posts about money, saying for members to give him their coins and things like that, and other people played along, eventually creating more joke accounts such as Mario and Luigi, when this happened it was clear the prank had reached its peak, so this is when the April Fools joke came to a close.

This April Fools prank was a spur of the moment prank pulled off by Kritter.

April Fools 2004

The 2004 April Fool's prank is highly controversial, and begun the Spy vs. Spy-like battle between Shadowman and Retriever II.

ShadowMan's Fun

The recently elected administrator, ShadowMan, changed the forums to Waligie Fangames Place based on a cult hit fangame, Waligie Bros. The forum was changed to a blinding uniform white, and all fonts were changed to System. Some liked the skin, but most administrators despised it to the point of editing posts to make it seem that more people disliked it. Near the end, all the forums were removed except for one as a member named US Army claimed to have arrested Waligie.

Retriever II's Revenge

The new host of the forums, Retriever II, decided to prank ShadowMan in retaliation. The administrative controls were reverse-engineered so that ShadowMan no longer had the ability to change skins. It took nearly an hour before ShadowMan was told this, which infuriated him, much to many's delight. In an effort to fix it, however, all the Waligie skin images were replaced with default ones. The forum images remained to be in the /waligie directory for nearly a year.

April Fools 2005

The 2005 April Fools prank is considered to be the most elaborate.

ShadowMan's Fun

ShadowMan, with the aid of Klobber, changed the forums to Uncle Billy's Spanish Chicken Shack Fangames Galaxy, or Choza Espanol de Pollo Galaxias Fangames de Tio Billy. The traditional blue colors of the forum were replaced with various images of wood planks, ShadowMan became Tio Billy, and the language on the forum was changed to be Spanish. All images on the boards revolved around either Mexico, Spain, or Tio Billy, depicted as George Foreman. A regularly changed MIDI file was also played in the background. This prank was well-received, and more smoothly executed than that of 2004.

Retriever II's Revenge

Once again, Retriever II pulled a prank on ShadowMan in revenge. This time, Retriever II prevented ShadowMan from changing his name back to ShadowMan, forcing him to be Tio Billy forever. Taking another counter-measure, Retriever II changed the password to MFGG's FTP, preventing ShadowMan from removing the "deny" code from the Admin CP. However, ShadowMan obtained the Penguinia FTP password from Klobber and manually changed the file to a working one. Unfortunately, the one ShadowMan uploaded was from an older version of Invision Boards, which nearly destroyed the functionality of some features.

April Fools 2006

ShadowMan's Fun

Forum replaced by All About Beards. Because of the Religion/Scientology forum, a huge flamewar ensued. ShadowMan considered this to be a great disaster, as the skin was only up for a few hours and then disappeared. ShadowMan blames the poor execution of the prank on his (at the time) recent case of pneumonia that he had developed the week prior that completely debilitated him.

Retriever II's Revenge

Retriever II edited the boards so ShadowMan only had access to the Beards subboards and could not see the normal sections (such as General Chat and the Pointless Post Palace). This was quickly changed back.

April Fools 2007

The first thing that has happened is the names of all the members have a letter missing and changing randomly. It is unknown if this is the work of ShadowMan, Retriever II, or someone else. Later on, it was expanded upon, supposedly by ShadowMan. Instead of a single letter being removed, the name instead would be reduced to a random length, often 0. This caused many of the usernames to appear blank in the topic list and the "Who's Viewing" list.

The sprite sheet of "The Fire Demon"

In addition, the main site accepted three poor-quality submissions:

• "New Super Mario Bros SSS" by dbzfan124@dbzmail.com (game)
• "SUPER MARIO MUSHROOM CHAOS" by totally4FOB99 (game; should not be confused with the game of the same name by ShyGuy182)
• "The Fire Demon" by Awesome Games (sprite; based on an original character and has nothing to do with the Mario series)

Reviews for the games were mostly positive, but the positive ones are faked. Many of the main site goers did not catch onto the joke.