Super Smash Bros. Fan Sends Threatening Email To Nintendo New York Store After Removal Of Game Kiosks

Who the heck is that fool ?!

For every kid who plays Smash every day at his local Gamestop because he can't afford a Wii U, there's an idiot who feels entitled to freeload on a demo unit indefinitely. Of course they were going to remove it eventually, what did he think they were going to do??

When I was in high school I used to walk over to Sears and play Yoshi’s Island for hours. My parents didn’t allow me to have a console at home and emulation was not yet able to handle superfx. Eventually the snes station disappeared and I was sad. (Just sad. No further action needed)

I'm guessing they didn't watch all three days of Treehouse at E3 then, as they surely wouldn't mind seeing the back of Smash until December. Or maybe that's just me?

Good to know they read the email, despite it being an old unused one. I've sent a few to Nintendo UK in the past and never received a reply.

That's what 9/11 was really about.

So the threat was sent during April lol, the threat was ignored for a whole 2 months before it was noticed.

I’m more surprised it took so long to be discovered by the store.

That person needs help.

Just remember,
When you think your life sucks... there is some grown adult out there that sent a threatening email to Nintendo because they took demo kiosks out of their store.

@Snow-Dust not only that but the threat in April was about the removal of game kiosks that were up this week for E3? This article is rather confusing and seems incorrect in some way.

Twisted...

The threat was probably never carried out cause the guy saw the Nintendo Super Smash Bros. Ultimate E3 2018 direct and was impressed so he don't care about the dumb kiosk Wii U version anymore.

I'm glad it was not serious if it took months for them to discover the email. I think they need a new email checker.

Somewhere someone is yelling:
"APRIL FOOLS"

Oy, What is wrong with people these days?

2018: The year even Nintendo news goes political.

Neat.

Was at the store today for a sushi striker event. I can tell you that zero people were aware of this.

No wonder Nintendo shown so much Smash Bros at E3, they were scared.

You know what that means. All MALE Nintendo players are toxic, and they must be attacked in every way possible.

@th3r3ds0x The Smash stations used to be upstairs, but were taken out during the remodel of Jan-Feb 2016. Two years ago! Which makes this a head-scratcher. The salt runs deep I guess.

If somebody, who can hacker of send email address like scam, trolls, anonymous. Can you tell who trolls bullied Nintendo ?.

That foolish emailler is also spamming because mean emails are considered spam

LMAO wtf?😂😂 They should have replied to him "Get a life."

"Obviously, this is an isolated case and is not a reflection of the wider video game community" - we keep telling ourselves.

Back when I was young, there was always that one loser who used to be there hanging by the game kiosks everyday, like some form of bacteria. They usually smelled bad and always wanted to talk about how much they knew about games (and were wrong about everything). No matter which store, there was always one.

This is one of those losers.

@dereq Apologies if my wording came across badly, but living memory is defined as the memory of those who lived through the event itself. Only 100,000 holocaust survivors are alive today (as of Jan 2018) & most in their 80s & 90s. My statement was not meant as a slight against the surviving victims but to highlight that 73 years have past since then, yet the pain is still very real.

I would appreciate your opinion on why my statement was "unbelievably false" though, so I can be more accurate in future.

I think we all need to remember that the actions of one crazy, sad individual does not reflect on the community as a whole.

But I guarantee you, some politician is gonna see it that way and use this as yet another excuse to declare video games a sign of society's "moral decay".

Maybe was threat email while during Nintendo E3 2018.

@Heavyarms55 You're absolutely right, it seems to be a default setting. Before video games, it was movies that were to blame for the ills of the world.. before that records, before that racy books, before that paintings. It seems the people in power can never seem to admit their own legislative failures (or you know, humanity) could possibly have something to do with it.

dereq sounds like the kind of guy who would send an emailed bomb threat to Nintendo from mom's basement

Can we not use the word fan/s to describe these ejits. They’re not worthy of the name.

@Anti-Matter typical Nintendo fan

I wonder if this will get them to revise how they read their emails...

@Tasuki how the hell does your comment have 4 likes. Wow.

Can we stop calling these people fans, this isn't what a fan would do. We have more appropriate names for these people but I'd probably get banned if I wrote it here

That last line made me snicker a bit too much

Those aren't real fans. Maybe a very bad April fools joke?

@mazz maybe he sent it because he knew there was going to be a sushi striker event. .. .he's not as mad as we first thought. 😃

o_o

Seems like an April Fools joke gone terribly wrong.

Doesn't surprise me. Nintendo fanboys are the most deranged of them all.

I'm starting to think that calling in a bomb threat to a building is the equivalent of calling someone the N-word.
It's basically the worst knee jerk reaction to you being a saltyboi.

@electrolite77 LOL! It wasn’t Robbie Williams perchance? I could picture that.

@electrolite77 Mark Owen?

Idk if parent just don't discipline their kids anymore or what, but stuff like this is the new norm, and that's not normal.

In the mid 90's, the IRA would always phone a bomb threat to my school, strange how it always happened on a Friday, at dinner time! ....

@JaxonH Are you talking about the article or this comment section?

@Spectra and if he did, he wouldn’t go past the headline to the actual article.

@Baker1000 He's a moocher, and lives by his moochin' ways! The kind of guy who would "Gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."

@DanteSolablood Hell, the Church kept the Bible in Latin so the masses couldn't read it and think for themselves for centuries. The elite always resent anything different.

This is ridicules. Complaining is one thing but threatening others is just low.

@Flowerlark Too soon?

When I was a kid, I did chores and saved money to get a game I liked in the kiosk at Blockbuster, or added it to a Christmas list. Or rented it a bunch. Or borrowed it from a friend. Or played it at their house. Or made bomb threats.

This is terrible.

"Obviously, this is an isolated case and is not a reflection of the wider video game community."

You must not read the comments on gaming sites very often.

Hmm, guessing my original comment was removed due to the controversial topics involved, even though I went out of my way to be polite & inoffensive. Hopefully the two commenters I was looking to settle down have calmed a bit.

@@Heavyarms55 Lol, I think I'll leave those topics for now.. don't want to discuss two tragedies AND the Bible in one comment sections else it will be more than my posts being removed.

What a manchild.

Well this kid better be praying that he can play Smash Bros in the short time he has..... Cause he will certainly be waiting longer than 6 months to play this game, when he is in jail or wherever he'll be sent to

@617Sqn
What was it like to live through The Troubles?

@Tasuki i doubt he was a nintendo fanboy more like a troll from sony or xbox but seriously who would be stupid to make a threat like that hope he gets caught.

C'mon....which one of you guys was it??

@Menchi187 says the xbot or sony bot which are far worse.

Well, I certainly love the Super Smash Bros. series, but there comes a point where bomb threats are past the "Love Limit." Also typical of a crazy person to give empty threats lol, am I right?

Wow...that's just pathetic.

Like, BRUH!?

I'm always embarrassed and annoyed to hear about these self-entitled loonies sending threats. Get some professional help!

@adingdingdiiing he was on his last stock and ragequit when they took the kiosk I bet lol

@electrolite77 "Before reading the comments, I'll wager there will be some try hard idiot making this a 'Nintendo fanboy' thing rather than a 'crazy Person' thing."

There was, and they never disappoint with their predictability.

"Obviously, this is an isolated case and is not a reflection of the wider video game community."
actually it is a reflection of the wider video game community...

@ogo79 Actually it's a reflection of no matter the fandom there's always a few rotten apples in the bunch. Then people seem to think it's the entire fandom that's toxic not realizing it's probably the same percentage of toxic people in every single group of fans of anything.

@canucksfan989
yep, theres nutcases in every fan group lol

Oh god. This is all kinds of sad. A guy who loves Smash so much that he sends a bomb threat via email when it's taken away and subsequently the email isn't read for months. It's a modern tragedy of Shakespearean proportions 😵

@SethNintendo Yep, I believe the Wii U demos were still there in January when I visited so it checks out.