The Great Zelda Heist of E3 2016
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Published 2019-07-22
At E3 2016, one 17 year old planned to do the impossible: steal the code from Nintendo's brand new Zelda game, Breath of the Wild. How did he fare? Find out in the Great Zelda heist of E3 2016!
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All Comments (21)
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Dude in 2016: I'm gonna hack the WiiU and stole the data of the game thanks to my hacking skills and support of followers Dude in 2004: LMAO man, just run away with the CD
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"17 year old hacker" >already has the knowledge to hack into public systems and extract the data externally Me at 17 - fails geometry
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That's where they realized they stole Link, and not Zelda...
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"Zelda fans hadn't gotten news for 2 years." "Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was delayed to next year. Bummer." cries in Pikmin
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Congratulations, you have been blessed by the Youtube algorithm!
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And we would’ve gotten away with it too if it weren’t for you meddling kids
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Ironic they stole the MGS 3 disk when the games story is about stealing a disc.
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"At E3 2004, when I was two years old" Just like that I became a grand pappy
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Me and the boys stealing the BOTW demo
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That’s more people in the line/que than actual Wii U owners lmao.
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This YouTuber: I'm so grateful for 10k! YouTube algorithm: I'm about to start this man's whole career
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>"Greatest Heist of E3 2016" >Fails >"Sorry for the anticlimax" Visible Confusion
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"so how did you develop such good time management skills?" "my plans to steal botw were ruined because i decided to be 15 minutes late to the demo. since then i've never been late to anything"
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If only somebody did that back at SpaceWorld 99 with EarthBound 64
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17 year old: Does a video game heist. Me at 20: Codes "Hello World!"
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Can we quickly appreciate that he made a video about a game heist without ever using the word "hacker"? Thanks Tom, "hacker" sounds so silly and it's overused elsewhere.
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BOTW hacker: I am gonna hack that Wii U, and do lot's of stuff in my PC and copy the game data. MGS3 stealer: Hold my DVD.
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Not to brag, but I actually have access to the entire Zelda: Breath of the Wild game. It's amazing. I guarantee you won't be disappointed.
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I remember when this happened. Everyone was so excited wondering if it was gonna leak. If my memory serves me right, you forgot to mention that the "wrong files" that they obtained were promotion art work/images of the game that hadn't been seem before. Either way really cool and video and I'm glad i was able to finally see the whole story, instead of it being pieced together while it's happening.
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14:27 As someone who was 11 at that time, that hit pretty hard. Watching such a well made video made by someone much younger than me leaves me feeling both very old but also very impressed. Great job!
