How A Viral Game Vanished Overnight | Flappy Bird 

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Cool Video, NationSquid!

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I eat the cotton candy from my walls

@@Beanzopshave a good funeral 🥰

A variety of fake copies of the game appeared, which helped give the impression that the game was still alive, when in fact within two weeks the developer pulled the game from stores.

about 11-12(ish)months

Also have to keep in mind that because it stayed on your phone if you already downloaded it, many people were still playing the game for months after it was taken down. I don't think I even knew it was nuked until I'd been playing it far past the point of availability.

@@BlueSparxLPs If the game would've come out nowadays, I wouldn't have deleted it. One of my many regrets in life lmao.

@@BlueSparxLPs Ya I was gonna say even if the game was even removed in a day there would obviously still be people playing it who haven't deleted it yet.

Yeah, and the bird's movement was just wonky, especially the way it would nosedive once it lost momentum. There was something subtly enraging about all of Flappy Bird's mechanics, which counterintuitively somehow added to its addictiveness. Arguably it's a rare case of kusoge going mainstream.

⁠@@jasonblalock4429That’s a bit of a harsh take don’t you think? I mean you’re entitled for your own opinions but Flappy Bird was intended to be a more casual experience then your average mobile game that people took too seriously, it’s not a masterpiece but it is a fun past time game when you’re on the go and shouldn’t be treated as anything but, it’s just a small indie game that was made for enjoyment and hating on it just seems a bit negative.

Was quite easy for me, spend an hour and get like 50.

*"Frig... Frig... Frig... 5C :D"*

I really wish there was a rewritten version of the game like they did with Club Penguin.

Real talk. 💯

intrusive ads only serve to guarantee I won't buy your product

This! I was really drawn to the simplicity and convenience of mobile gaming in 2012/13, at the time it felt like the beginning of the next big phase for gaming. Around that time i felt like there was a lot of potential for mobile gaming. I haven't been a mobile phone gamer since 2017/18 bc after that all these app companies got too greedy and sadly most of them have ruined their own products with ads and even worse, shameless begging and pushing for people to buy "subscriptions" to them. Up until a year or two ago, there were still a small handful of mobile games i enjoyed and played, but the list kept getting smaller and smaller as they all cranked up the number of ads, length of ads, and frequency of ads in their games. As those factors went up, my tolerance for ads went down and i deleted them one by one until today, when i only have a couple versions of solitaire left on my phone and ipad and have mostly abandoned phone games. It's a shame, because the only games left on the app store that are worth playing are the $15 mobile versions of pre existing steam/computer games, like stardew valley, minecraft, ect. And i'd rather play such games on bigger screens, they weren't meant for smartphones and while they are perfectly playable, it feels crammed to me and i don't enjoy playing "big" games on a small device. On the bright side, i use my Nintendo switch a lot more these days.

@@alecrutz6979agree I refuse to give anything a chance that aggressively advertises

I miss that era. Mario run was cool too

Papi Jump 😎

@@k1773nsYou can still download the original APKs if you know some good sources that aren't sketchy and just waiting to give you a virus and if you happen to be lucky, those games might still work on Android 15. Personally just downloaded original Flappy Bird in version 1.3 and even though I do use very outdated phone (Android 10, Huawei P30 Pro) because of very little cash for an upgrade to something more modern, the game still works.

Subway Sufers?

Candy Crush?

how a hotdog sanviched away from existance

That's dumb

​@@Soup69Godgotta respect the hate man

If viral things in general where known for flapping then, or ifnitbwas a term for deleting/removing something, it might be a little clever

Me too 😂

That is true, yet the phone is designed for a totally different person and mindset then those computers

loser modern computer: *has 1 terabyte of storage, still crashes* chad Apollo Guidance Computer: *has 2 kilobytes of storage, is able to guide lander to the moon, only having one hiccup that the astronauts were able to ignore*

The Gameboy is lol

AFAIK anything that has any form of modern microcontroller(no matter how low spec) in it is more powerful than the AGC.

ice jumpscare

what

I’m curious, are you on an android? Have seen several cases myself when switching to a new iPhone where apps haven’t transferred and I can’t download them anymore

I had it on my old iPhone SE, the first generation, it stopped running on iOS 10 a long time ago but I just kept it. I do still have that phone and it works but I finally retired it last June after it was starting to fall apart. Yes the SE was released in 2016, 2 years after Flappy Bird was pulled from the App Store, but you can still install all apps you ever downloaded on any compatible device and I had it way back in 2013 on an iPhone 4S before briefly switching to an Android phone.

bro english?

Yes I was about to say! Helicopter was the OG

Absolutely, I spent way to much time on addictinggames in Jr high

Relatable

I was in high school when the game blew up, and in that setting it was everywhere. It was hard to find a student who *wasn't* playing it at some point during their day. Lots of them would get their phones taken in class for playing it as well.

@@BlueSparxLPsI think it’s just a case of this guy being much older than we were

@@Azurethewolf168 I was in Uni at the time, I didn't see anyone there playing it.

@@myhandleiswhat I mean do you think college students would really have time for that? This was mostly contained to teenagers to kids

can you share link?

And then there's a realization that 2013 was 11 years ago. Jeez Louise, my hair turned white and the clock grew wings.