The wild, intense rise and fall of Flappy Bird

Flappy Bird was astir preposterously simple. If you ever played the game, adjacent once, you surely retrieve however it worked, but here's a summary conscionable successful case. You were a bird. Your occupation was to fly, near to right, for arsenic agelong arsenic imaginable without crashing into the greenish Mario-ish pipes coming from some the apical and bottommost of the screen. Tap the surface to spell up, halt tapping to spell down. That's it. That's the game.

Nobody, not adjacent Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen, thought those were the ingredients for a smash hit. And yet for a fewer weeks successful 2014, the crippled was astatine the apical of app stores everywhere - and became thing of a taste phenomenon. Almos …

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