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WestJet introduces child-free cabins and Kargo Kids service


WestJet April Fool Page


Not to be outdone, Sir Richard Branson introduces Virgin Volcanic:
Using patented carbon-carbon materials pioneered for deep space exploration, Virgin is proud to announce a revolutionary new vehicle, VVS1, which will be capable of plunging three people into the molten lava core of an active volcano.

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It's April 1st again -- also known as April Fools' Day. Today also represents Apple's 36th anniversary, having been founded on this day in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

Here are a couple of the more ambitious pranks floating around the internet today:

Hungry Hungry Hippos for iPad

ThinkGeek has introduced a modernized version of the classic Hungry Hungry Hippos game for the iPad, but now with "capacitive-padded heads."

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YouTube: video
Readers will remember that ThinkGeek first introduced the iCade as an April Fools prank that later became a shipping product.

Google Maps for NES

Google has created an 8-bit version of Google Maps for the NES platform - a cartridge based game console from the 1980s.

YouTube: video
You can explore it yourself on Google's maps site.

Article Link: iPad Hungry Hungry Hippos and Other April Fools for 2012


I know NES, NES was a friend of mine and you sir are no NES. I remember the NES being front loading:

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yet they showed top loading, maybe the meant SNES:

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The YouTube one is pretty great. A few years ago for April 1 every featured video looked normal but you'd get redirected to Rick Astley
 
Some good pranks this year. Almost makes me think that Google has a dedicated April Fools division.
 
Did not know that, thanks!

Fun facts: Nintendo of America completely redesigned the system to resemble a VCR because they figured that this would appeal more to the NA audience. An initial, black design that had a keyboard as an accessory looked even more like a VCR than the final design but it was disliked by the focus groups.
The NES left out some features from the Famicom such as a built in microphone on the second controller (the Famicom came with two hard-wired controllers) and two connectors that allowed a cartridge to have its own sound chip expansion.
 
Hey if they can have Simon for iPad, why not Hungry Hungry Hippos? I want it!

yeah. it actually looks cool. Unlike those games were the iPad was just the spin wheel and you had a regular board and pieces.

I still want Nintendo to release the original Super Mario trilogy for iOS (and sure they could do Android as well). I think they would be a huge hit both sales and PR wise. Personally I'd be willing to as high as $9.99 a game on them.
 
The Google Maps for NES spoof has pretty high production values. I wonder what it cost Google.
 
thinkgeek

i just went to the page to see what else they did and I have to say that I'm shocked that no one has actually done the Angry Birds Pork Rinds. I mean they have shirts and plashes, why not food.

Oh and that tattoo thing could probably happen one day. Which is creepier than the Barbie face
 
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Seems like I remember a previous copyright holder for maps and quests...
 
:D Good stuff.

If we only had a magic flute for transportation (or should I say teleportation).
 
If we only had a magic flute for transportation (or should I say teleportation).

No. Transportation. Everyone knows you use a magic flute to call a whirlwind and/or giant bird to physically come pick you up.

Teleportation would be your bog standard magic whisking pads and other miscellaneous forms of metaphysical transversal, wherein you're basically using Geomathromancer magics to bend two points along a 4 dimensional plane to inhabit the same space at once. Magic flutes are rarely, if ever, used for such an endeavor.
 
One of my friends sent ThinkGeek a message telling them to put on the Konami code on their site: give it a try (Up up down down left right left right B A Enter)! (It has to do with their hungry-hungry hippos game, but I'll let you see for yourself ;))
 
Some of these are very clever, but a lot of the news sites/apps have articles that are not funny at all.
 
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