Xbox 360-branded Ecstasy on Sale in UK
Microsoft still on one long comedown in Japan.
Apologies for the slightly misleading sub-header above. Of course, you might already have realised our slight mistake. Because, as any heavy drug abuser will know, in order to experience a bad comedown, one has to have experienced a really great high.
And Microsoft have not yet experienced anything resembling a ‘high’ in Japan with Xbox 360, which continues to function as little more than a bit of a joke amongst Japanese gamers, who are known to be more than a little Xenophobic and anti-Microsoft (read: anti-American) in their outlook.
In the last week of June, Xbox 360 sales totalled 1,897 units versus the PlayStation 2's 23,133 units, according to market tracker Media Create. That'a quite a gulf, although the 360 still placed in the number two position among consoles, just ahead of Nintendo's GameCube, which sold 1,002 units in the same period.
Perhaps then, these Japanese anti-American Xenophobes should just chill out at bit and try some of this new Xbox 360 branded Ecstasy! Yes, that’s right. Some entrepreneurial crustie has come up with the wizard idea of nicking Microsoft’s next gen console’s brand name and using it to market hard drugs to kids (read: students).
It seems that a new 'brand' of ecstasy powder (aka MDMA) is doing the rounds amongst the UK’s finest drug abusers, thanks to the ever helpful stoners posting over on Squatjuice, where there is a debate raging about whether the Microsoft console-inspired hard drug is cut with MDMA, LSD or Mescalin.
Well, each to their own we say here at SPOnG. Whilst we spend out time discussing the relative merits of Mario over Zelda, others spend their time getting right off their nut, then comparing the experience on Squatjuice, SPOnG’s new favourite site about hard drug abuse.
In the interests of science (you understand) we will be trying to get our hands of some prime, uncut Xbox 360 MDMA to see how it compares with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console, and also (in a controlled environment, you understand) if a combination of the two experiences proves to be synaesthetically pleasing or anxiety-inducingly displeasing.
Let us know your favourite drug/game combos in the forums below!
(Thanks to Kotaku for the link).
And Microsoft have not yet experienced anything resembling a ‘high’ in Japan with Xbox 360, which continues to function as little more than a bit of a joke amongst Japanese gamers, who are known to be more than a little Xenophobic and anti-Microsoft (read: anti-American) in their outlook.
In the last week of June, Xbox 360 sales totalled 1,897 units versus the PlayStation 2's 23,133 units, according to market tracker Media Create. That'a quite a gulf, although the 360 still placed in the number two position among consoles, just ahead of Nintendo's GameCube, which sold 1,002 units in the same period.
Perhaps then, these Japanese anti-American Xenophobes should just chill out at bit and try some of this new Xbox 360 branded Ecstasy! Yes, that’s right. Some entrepreneurial crustie has come up with the wizard idea of nicking Microsoft’s next gen console’s brand name and using it to market hard drugs to kids (read: students).
It seems that a new 'brand' of ecstasy powder (aka MDMA) is doing the rounds amongst the UK’s finest drug abusers, thanks to the ever helpful stoners posting over on Squatjuice, where there is a debate raging about whether the Microsoft console-inspired hard drug is cut with MDMA, LSD or Mescalin.
Well, each to their own we say here at SPOnG. Whilst we spend out time discussing the relative merits of Mario over Zelda, others spend their time getting right off their nut, then comparing the experience on Squatjuice, SPOnG’s new favourite site about hard drug abuse.
In the interests of science (you understand) we will be trying to get our hands of some prime, uncut Xbox 360 MDMA to see how it compares with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console, and also (in a controlled environment, you understand) if a combination of the two experiences proves to be synaesthetically pleasing or anxiety-inducingly displeasing.
Let us know your favourite drug/game combos in the forums below!
(Thanks to Kotaku for the link).
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Juno Blaster 13 Jul 2006 23:31
1/8
Wow!
SPOnG's news hit's new lows as staff hit new highs.
SPOnG's news hit's new lows as staff hit new highs.
SPInGSPOnG 14 Jul 2006 07:25
2/8
Juno Blaster wrote:
Wow!
SPOnG's news hit's new lows as staff hit new highs.
SPOnG's news hit's new lows as staff hit new highs.
Dude, what's your problem (apart from not knowing how to use the apostrophe)? Just because you freak out at the mere mention of drugs doesn't mean everyone else is such a square.
Don't bum our trip, you L7.
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hollywooda 14 Jul 2006 09:40
3/8
Wow Spong in a report about a 360 named drug, u still managed to bolt on a completly unrelated issuse about Sony beating the xbox 360 in Japan & how Microsoft are failing, nice work!..... i'm suprise you can still sit down to type with that large Sony dildo up your arse.
Charliemouse 14 Jul 2006 09:55
4/8
Let us know your favourite drug/game combos in the forums below!
Ketamine and Rez. Works every time.
Ketamine and Rez. Works every time.
config 14 Jul 2006 10:26
5/8
Any hallucinogen + any game by Jeff Minter
Do I win a prize?
Do I win a prize?
SPInGSPOnG 14 Jul 2006 10:52
6/8
hollywooda wrote:
Wow Spong in a report about a 360 named drug, u still managed to bolt on a completly unrelated issuse about Sony beating the xbox 360 in Japan & how Microsoft are failing
Dude, I'm pretty sure the story is actually ABOUT the Japanese sales figures, and that the ecstacy angle is bolted on in an attempt to make it funny and interesting.
nice work!..... i'm suprise you can still sit down to type with that large Sony dildo up your arse.
You're stuck up SPOnG's arse? How did THAT happen?
Jon_tooth 4 Feb 2009 15:29
7/8
I think we decided it was mescalin in the end.
Pugh24Arlene 30 Jan 2012 09:48
8/8
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