Angry Birds and Parabolic Instinct In Humans

Frankie70 writes "Matt Ridley writes about Angry Birds, an iPhone game (later ported to other platforms) which has sold more than 12 million copies. The spectacular trajectory of the game, from obscure Finnish iPhone app to global ubiquity — there are board games, maybe even movies in the works — is probably inexplicable. Ridley wonders if there is an evolutionary aspect to its allure. There is something much more satisfactory about an object tracing a parabolic ballistic trajectory through space towards its target than either following a straight line or propelling itself."

Re:Movie...?

[plover]

An "Angry Birds" movie? Look, I love the game, I really do. But a movie? Please no.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMltvlqEM54 [youtube.com]

It's less than three minutes, and completely hilarious. Warning: audio contains the 'F-bomb' and you may not consider it SFW.

I think it's exactly the right length for an "Angry Birds" movie.

Re:Like tank wars

[HeckRuler]

It'll always be Scorched Earth [wikipedia.org] to me. Kids these days though, they'll probably just remember worms [wikipedia.org] or worms [wikipedia.org] or worms3D [wikipedia.org] or possibly even Scorched Earth 3D [wikipedia.org] if they're really hip.

Re:Like tank wars

[Seumas]

App Store . . . the home of people ripping off ideas that have been around for 30 years and becoming millionaires from all the suckers who think it's the greatest thing they've ever seen.