The first time I played Flappy Bird I died a dozen times trying to propel myself between a single pair of Super Mario Bros.-pilfered pipes. I’m no gaming wallflower, so when I say this is an onerously ...

Flappy Bird took the smartphone world by storm a decade ago. Its simple yet addictive concept resulted in tens of thousands of dollars in earnings per day. The developer decided to remove it from the ...

Eleven years ago, the mobile gaming world briefly became consumed by Flappy Bird, a mobile title that was simplistic as it was addictive. The game, which was only as mechanically dense as tapping a ...

Do you have to play Flappy Bird? Not really, but those who did should appreciate what the game brought us in its limited time on Earth. Flappy Bird is as brutally difficult as it is simple and ...

Jason Fennell is a writer and game designer based out of Chicago, IL. He has been writing articles about video games for several years now, with a professional interest in Adobe Flash and its legacy.

In February of 2014—over ten years ago!—the most popular mobile game in the iOS App Store or Google Play Store suddenly disappeared. Flappy Bird, which had taken the world by storm and was practically ...

Yesterday, the creator of Flappy Bird removed the game from Google Play and the Apple App Store. That same day, over 140 games featuring the word “Flappy” appeared in the backend of a popular ...

13 years ago, an app was launched that changed mobile gaming forever. This deceptively simple side-scroller burned bright and quickly. 18 million people downloaded it before it was pulled from the app ...