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"Correction: October 22, 2011 An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the premise of 'Angry Birds,' a popular iPhone game. In the game, slingshots are used to launch birds to destroy pigs and their fortresses, not to shoot down the birds."
No. The real premise is to find the human with the best grasp of ballistics so Robert Preston can abduct him or her to save a 2D bird planet from an infestation of wood-and-glass-structure-building pigs.
@dntsqzthchrmn: One of the relatively early, significant uses of computing power was to calculate artillery trajectories in WWII.
Yadda yadda yadda computer geeks yadda yadda Angry Birds.
@dntsqzthchrmn The Last Pigfighter, an 80's reboot coming soon to theater near you.
Huh. So I'm not the only person who's never played that game.
Correction, October 22, 1981. An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the orange ghost in Ms. Pac-Man is named Clyde. It is not. Her name is Sue. The Times regrets the error.
Correction, Sept. 22, 1983. An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the intro music to the Atari video game "Journey: Escape" was the song "Escape" from that album. It is, in fact, "Don't Stop Believing." Further, despite numerous complaints, we were correct about the presence of the Kool-Aid Man in the video game. We did not make this up. The Kool-Aid Man is in this video game.
@KenWheaton I am not ashamed to admit I owned BOTH those games. I don't think I had much of an idea what a "love-crazed groupie" was at that age, but looking back I question whether the members of Journey really did see them as something to avoid.
Correction, Feb. 18, 1982. Coins not detected in pocket.
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