Not exact matches
The game's creator Dong Nguyen famously removed the game from the
app store, explaining to Rolling Stone that he cracked under the pressure of its success and had been receiving disturbing letters detailing
Flappy Bird's addictive powers.
The game itself is pretty simple: You deftly try to guide a bird through a gap in a brick wall that is fast approaching, tapping the bird to make it fly higher (in a way similar to the famous «
Flappy Bird» gaming
app).
After
Flappy Bird was inexplicably removed from
app stores by its developer over the weekend, the free game has now resurfaced on eBay to the tune of $ 99,900.
When
Flappy Bird took the mobile world by storm and was subsequently removed from mobile
app stores, many wondered if Nintendo was responsible for the removal due to the similarity of artwork depicted in that game resembling early Mario games.
You'd be forgiven for thinking that a game called Flirty Birdys was a shameless rip - off designed to cash - in on the popularity of Angry Birds or
Flappy Bird or one of the other avian - stuffed titles on the
App Store.
You may remember the definitely - not - Mario - inspired visuals of
Flappy Bird, the embattled
app store sensation of a few years ago.
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Our intuitive home screen puts the priority on the best new
apps, such as
Flappy Bird, Tuned In, or Tekken Arena.
One of the first real additions to the wrist - based gaming market is Flopsy Droid, described as an experimental game that is inspired by the popular
Flappy Bird
app.
If you want to Download
Flappy Bird, you can still download it for free from the Good e-Reader
App Store.
This week has been dominated by
Flappy Bird, the seminal new
app that has been resulting in broken phones and tablets.
It was freaking
Flappy Bird, the annoying
app 50 million masochists downloaded into their phones.
If you were to look up «
flappy» on any
app store, I can guarantee you that you will see thousands upon thousands of lookalikes in hopes that some passerby will fall for them.
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Since this is a big part of the
Flappy Bird experience, it is conceivable a court could find that a certain percentage of the revenue from the
app would belong to Nintendo.
When Dong Nguyen uploaded
Flappy Birds, the free - to - play mobile game in which players guide their pixelated avian avatar through an endless obstacle course of Super Mario-esque pipes, to the
App Store last May, he had no idea it would go viral.
In his first interview since it was pulled from both Apple's
App Store and Google's Android Play Store, Nguyen told Forbes that
Flappy Birds had «become an addictive product» and that it was now «gone forever.»
If you are constantly on your phone's
app store you have probably seen the newest hit to come out —
Flappy Bird.
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There are endless
app releases attempting to emulate the popular
Flappy Bird formula, however Spring Ninja adds a whole new meaning to the word frustration.
Technically, the decision to pull
Flappy Bird from the
App Store in 2014 was not Apple's to make.
If Apple really wants to make a splash at this product event, then the obvious solution is for Craig Federighi to conduct an unholy summoning ritual from the stage of the Steve Jobs Theater, resurrecting
Flappy Bird from the dead and turning it into one of those annoying
apps you can't delete.
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With the sudden and unexpected takedown of
Flappy Bird from the major
app stores, a number of developers have tried to jump in on the action - only to have -LSB-...] Read full article
The developer of
Flappy Bird has decided that it was all too much, speaking on the massive amount of attention he'd received over the game, shutting the
app down entirely this weekend.
What killed it was when everyone was talking about
apps like
Flappy bird and Windows users couldn't get in on the conversation.
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That's no surprise given how many knockoff
apps there are for iconic games like
Flappy Bird and Candy Crush.
We get the mindless appeal of
Flappy Bird, but your child will love these brain - healthy
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