Friday, April 27, 2012

Link roundup

1. Destructoid posted a bunch of animated gifs from Grim Fandango.

2. Think the war on terror is over?

3. Steve Jobs wanted to do Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in real life:
Steve's idea was to do a Willy Wonka with it. Just as Wonka did in the movie, Steve wanted to put a golden certificate representing the millionth iMac inside the box of one iMac, and publicize that fact. Whoever opened the lucky iMac box would be refunded the purchase price and be flown to Cupertino, where he or she (and, presumably, the accompanying family) would be taken on a tour of the Apple campus.

Steve had already instructed his internal creative group to design a prototype golden certificate, which he shared with us. But the killer was that Steve wanted to go all out on this. He wanted to meet the lucky winner in full Willy Wonka garb. Yes, complete with top hat and tails.
4. I'm really sorry I posted about (and bought) the Marvel vs. Capcom 2 iOS game the other day. I'll just assume Capcom games are trash for now on.