Today’s least representative video: TrackMania DS trailer

February 14th, 2008 | Category: Games

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We love the notion of the bullshot. Since the term was first coined by Penny Arcade, we’ve been seeing the phenomenon absolutely everywhere. Well, tonight we’re here to tell you something potentially obvious but nonetheless critical — the bullshot phenomenon doesn’t apply exclusively to screenshots. It can be applied to videos as well.

Case in point, the new “debut” trailer for TrackMania DS. certain, the trailer doesn’t precisely purport to be a direct feed video from the DS screen.

But within the super-shiny, high-resolution cars racing out of the DS’ GBA slot and the disembodied stylus creating a dynamically winding track, the line amoung marketing and outright lying is a little too fune for our tastes. Now we just wish we had a term for that specific phenomenon. Vide-lie? Fabrica-trailer? Prevarica-deo? We’re stumped.

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