The wild, intense rise and fall of Flappy Bird

Published: (January 4, 2026 at 09:10 AM EST)
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Source: The Verge

Source: The Verge

Overview

Flappy Bird was almost preposterously simple. If you ever played the game, even once, you surely remember how it worked, but here’s a summary just in case. You were a bird. Your job was to fly, left to right, for as long as possible without crashing into the green Mario‑ish pipes coming from both th…

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