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Today Sanoma Magazines announced the details of their new glossy magazine AKU ("Donald"). It's going to be out on June the 9th (Donald Duck's birthday) and they describe it with: "Targeted at adults, AKU. is a completely new kind of glossy magazine that combines fashionable lifestyle contents and hilarious comics."

Part of the magazine's concept is choosing and naming real life people as witty representations of Donald Duck characters. They announced the "Duckburg characters of real life" today at around 15:20

Kalle Palander (alpine skier, celebrity) got chosen as Donald Duck ;) a good choice considering his personality, ups and down, temper etc.

They chose me as Scrooge McDuck. Not because I would own 607 tillion 386 zillion 947 trillion 522 billion dollars and 36 cents, but rather because of the similarities in Scrooge being an entrepreneur and succeeding by his own merit.

Scrooge left Scotland for the US at the age of 13. I started working at the same age.

Scrooge's motto is "Work smarter, not harder." - which I totally agree with!

To me Scrooge is a very positive character; demanding for sure, has a bit of a nasty temper (or lacks some patience?), while simultaneously being very keen towards learning new things and having an adventurous spirit. Amateur treasure hunter and all. Despite of being a centennial Scrooge still has the energy left in him to get excited about new opportunities, new adventures and winning over his competitors. That's the spirit!

Often the character of Scrooge doesn't come off as a big corporate industrialist (you never see him working a gigantic corporate HQ, with office politics and all that crap..), he comes off as an entrepreneur-adventurer instead. Always looking for the next-big-thing and feeling depressed if there's no action around.

Makes you wonder; is Scrooge's character really a tribute to entrepreneurship?

Sure would like to see Scrooge invest more of his money into startups ;)

It's 1992 all over again and Pinball Dreams is here.

I have just spent a hefty portion of my evening checking it out. Chatted with the author of the game mr. Juuso Salmijärvi earlier today and I hear the game is selling pretty good at the moment. It's only been out a few days now.

And that's not a huge surprise. It is very true to the original, which is great since this used to be one of my favorite games (not to mention Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions). I must have played those games a lot more than "real" pinball ever.

All the history of the series from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Dreams

There's a good review here in TouchArcade.

The webpage for the game and for Cowboy Rodeo who makes it is here:

http://www.cowboyrodeo.net/pinballdreaming/

I have a feeling that we will see a lot more "retro" classics making a comeback on the iPhone. For a game like this the platform is almost ideal, and old legendary stuff feels very fresh again. I have tried to stay away from purchasing much iPhone games, but this one got me ;)

Hollywood has been cashing in for years on the former teenagers turned adults comic book fandom and fantasies; selling Spiderman, Batman and X-Men, etc by the boatloads. Perhaps we will see a similar retro-business with games such as this.

I'm very much a sucker fanboy in the same genre; very eagerly waiting for the movies Watchmen and Wolverine... not to mention Thor, and Captain America, and Silver Surfer, and Doctor Strange, and all the rest......