Can you imagine the amount of power consumed inside of the Los Angeles Convention Center around this time of year? It's probably a lot – considering all of those big screens and video game kiosk showcasing a bunch of brand new titles.
Sure enough, though, there's been a power outage at this year's expo. On Wednesday, E3 2019 was sent back to the prehistoric era, when the show floor went into darkness. According to Polygon, every television monitor and internet router temporarily went down for a "few" minutes.
Nintendo, however, was prepared for the inevitable, when the interruption took day two of its Treehouse Live stream offline. During this interruption, the above image was beamed across to the screens of online viewers, showing Error, the villager from Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. If you're not familiar with the meme, you can read more about it here.
Later on, when the recording of the stream was uploaded to YouTube, viewers apparently discovered Nintendo had cut sections of the video due to the power outage. Update: Turns out the mishap is still in there:
Did you witness this moment yourself? Tell us down in the comments.
[source polygon.com]
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I chuckled at this when it popped up. Also I am first
@Deltarogue You are not first, sorry.
That's a funny pic though.
@Kalmaro I AM SAD
They cut it? Did anybody catch a screenshot of the HOME Menu when they were playing New Super Luckys Tale? It had some weird stuff on it
EDIT: Never mind, looks like it's not cut after all
@ALinkttPresent what did the home screen have on it?
Honestly, had I been there, I would have assumed "terrorist attack" or some other horrific disaster first... Huge events like this just scream "target me for horrible things!"
Glad it was just a mundane thing.
A few minutes??? The power went out for just a second or two when I was in South Hall. The Nintendo booth is in West Hall, was it really out that long?
EDIT: Did a reread, they said that the television monitors and modems were down for a few minutes, which is technically true. Had to wait for everything to reboot, of course. The outage was only a second or so, barely enough time to register what even happened.
This is why I love Nintendo
I hate power outages especially at my work place...... Takes the computers forvever to get back on..... Haha especially sucks when it's on busy days.
Nintendo always prepared for the worst I guess
I AM OUTAGE
I tuned back into the live stream after leaving my desk at work for a few minutes...and found this. XD I love "We're experiencing technical difficulties" screens like this.
The most philosophical dude in all of Nintendo.
I am Error.
Are we all? Aren't we all? Deep stuff, Error. LOL
Hee hee. I love Nintendo's little in-jokes
@ReaderRagfish Actually ya, if you go to another town later in the game a villager will tell you to find his friend Error and he will tell you how to find the next dungeon. And when you talk to Error again he will give you some solid advice.
@ALinkttPresent Thanks, I finally found the video timestamp and updated the article to reflect this.
@Heavyarms55 Seriously? People are already that crazy that a terrorist attack is the first thing that comes to your mind if there power is a power outage? Relax man!
@Deltarogue @ALinkttPresent I found the home menu thing at 4:54:38 in the video above. It has something called 'DevMenu' and what looks like an Unreal Engine app.
Yes you are, Error. Yes you are.
Hey, whaddaya know? There's that error screen article, the image of which I already posted in the Chit-chat thread yesterday, the moment it actually happened...
The funniest part about all of it, was that this happened during the segment where they were showing off Microsoft's Super Lucky's Tale....
Error for Smash!!
Nice reference.
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