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When a game makes it so difficult that you have to work to discover its own name: Ong’s Hat Conspiracy – Halo 2
It’s become standard practice: a Nintendo Direct, a PlayStation Showcase, or an Xbox Showcase is announced, and we’re immediately excited to hear we’re getting a whole bunch of brand new trailers. But what if I told you that there are titles whose marketing campaigns have attract millions of glances without making use of these presentations? We talk… Continue reading When a game makes it so difficult that you have to work to discover its own name: Ong’s Hat Conspiracy – Halo 2
La conspiración de Ong’s Hat: Cómo el primer juego de realidad alternativa terminó inspirando a Halo 2 y otros grandes títulos
Hacemos un repaso de las mejores campañas de marketing transmedia en el videojuego, así como sus orígenes en Internet. LINK: https://www.3djuegos.com/juegos/halo-2/noticias/conspiracion-ongs-hat-como-primer-juego-realidad-alternativa-termino-inspirando-a-halo-2-otros-grandes-titulos
Imaginary Worlds: Catching the Mind Virus
The town of Ong’s Hat in New Jersey may have been the site of a top secret experiment that brought scientists to a parallel world in another dimension. Or it’s the subject of a big inside joke and perhaps the first alternate reality game on the Internet. This week’s episode comes from the Slate podcast… Continue reading Imaginary Worlds: Catching the Mind Virus
Ong’s Hat: Eggheads, Gov’t Shills, & The Internet’s First Hoax | 323
Ever start telling a story as a joke and it gets out of hand? People believe it no matter how much you swear you made it up and try to destroy your life? No, just Joseph Matheny? This week we tackle Ong’s Hat, the internets first honest to goodness hoax that took on a life… Continue reading Ong’s Hat: Eggheads, Gov’t Shills, & The Internet’s First Hoax | 323
Unbelievable Things That Happened In New Jersey’s Creepiest Abandoned Town
Unbelievable Things That Happened In New Jersey’s Creepiest Abandoned Town Read More: The Creepiest Town In New Jersey IS Ongs Hat | https://wobm.com/ixp/392/p/new-jersey-creepiest-abandoned-town/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
Gateway to another dimension! – The Ong’s Hat mystery
In this video were going to jump down the rabbit hole of the worlds first internet conspiracy theory and what happens when the actual creator of the hoax comes forward and admits that its just that. A big fat hoax. This… is Ong’s Hat!
‘Vanishing’ Towns That May (Or May Not) Have Really Existed
Did Scientists In Ong’s Hat, NJ, Burrow Into Another Dimension? Near where New Jersey Route 72 intersects with Route 70, there’s little left to mark what was once a small town called Ong’s Hat – but it was, in fact, really there. You can find evidence of its history in things like a local street… Continue reading ‘Vanishing’ Towns That May (Or May Not) Have Really Existed
New Jersey’s Biggest Mystery HOAX: Ong’s Hat
Ong’s Hat isn’t a place, it’s a world. by waxbanks
Ong’s Hat isn’t a place, it’s a world. by waxbanks FROM: https://waxbanks.wordpress.com/2023/02/02/ongs-hat-isnt-a-place-its-a-world/ Stating what should be obvious: Ong’s Hat — not the ghost town in New Jersey but the fictional town-story overlaid on it by Joseph Matheny and later collaborators/followers — isn’t a place, though it’s certainly tied to one. Rather, it’s a way of… Continue reading Ong’s Hat isn’t a place, it’s a world. by waxbanks