Flap, Flap, Flap, Crap! Fly Off the Handle With Flappy Bird on Your Mobile Phone
Flappy Bird? Moar liek crappy bird, amirite? So why am I so obsessed with it? Why is everyone so obsessed with it? Why is it the number one free app on iTunes? Why am I asking you so many questions? You don’t know the answers. Sorry about that. Flappy Bird is, to put it in as favorable a light as possible, the cheesiest game you’re ever likely to install on your Apple or Android phone or tablet. The retro-styled game tasks, or more accurately vexes, you with guiding a fat yellow one-eyed bird that looks like it hatched at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant through gaps in green warp pipe graphics stolen from a Super Mario Brothers game. Guiding to where? Nowhere, there is no goal, just an ill-omened trip scoring a single point per successfully-navigated gap until your bird smacks into one of the pipes. Which will come quickly, because the game has a difficulty level apparently intended to drive you into fits of frustration. You tap to keep