Yes, some people knew already it was a joke from little inconsistencies and oversights in my photo editing, but hey, absolute verisimilitude was never the goal. I'd be scamming people for money if I could make the photos that realistic.
I couldn't do much about the Power Console picture, except for making better shadows. The original pic was a grainy scan from a small magazine page, so a lot of massaging had to be applied anyway.
And as a fact, I did consider checking out a yen bill from 1989 before I drew it, but I figured I didn't need to be so meticulous since nobody would be that anal. I guess for future hoaxes (?) I'll have to assume a higher level of both.
Basically, everything on that page -- except for a single EPROM card, the Tsushin EPROM so-mentioned -- is fake, and either does not exist or is not in my possession. I'll put up a page later, perhaps, that shows some of the original photos.
The screenshots were mostly hand-pixeled by me, except for the Bruce Lee photos, mah-jongg tiles, the rock and explosion, etc... Sorry, they're not in PCE ROM form; just .gif or .iff
I did stick to 9-bit colour space almost exclusively tho.
Finally, as Black Tiger pointed out, a totally convincing page is not a good April Fool's joke. Just like in comedy, a scene should start out normal, introduce something incongruous, and then crank up the unbelievability until people get the joke. I thought with my "Excited-blind-faith-diehard PCE Fanboy" writer's voice and Johnny Turbo echoes (Arcade
feel!) it should have tipped everyone off; the ridiculous features of the Console (Dual screens! Money feeder!) were the punchline.
