According to a researcher who looked into
how Flappy Bird was able to go viral faster than Ebola in an airport, the game's popularity was due to a huge spike in downloads in December 2013.
Not exact matches
For more on Super Mario Maker, be sure to check out some of the Easter eggs hiding on the game's start screen, or see
how one user has already recreated
Flappy Bird in the game.
He's managed to inject the code for
Flappy Bird into Super Mario World and created a bot that learned
how to play Mario.
However, those similarities pale in comparison to
how badly
Flappy Bird ripped off Piou Piou vs. Cactus — a game in which you have to guide a yellow, big - lipped bird through a maze of green obstac
Bird ripped off Piou Piou vs. Cactus — a game in which you have to guide a yellow, big - lipped
bird through a maze of green obstac
bird through a maze of green obstacles.
Seeing as Maria doesn't know
how to fly her broom correctly, this isn't going to be a walk in the park as you are given controls which feel like they came out of
Flappy Bird (which I'll get to in a minute) and a claustrophobic play area which will have you hitting the top or bottom of the area more often than not.
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Even one of Piou Piou's developers noticed
how much of a ripoff
Flappy Bird actually is but the tweet has since been deleted.
That's no surprise given
how many knockoff apps there are for iconic games like
Flappy Bird and Candy Crush.