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Flappy Bird is Back… On a Dreamcast Memory Card

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We thought that we had heard the last of Flappy Bird, but it is back in a not so big way – on a Dreamcast memory card. The long-dead console still has a massive fanbase, so it is no wonder that one hacker has ported the game to the Dreamcast’s interactive memory card. Because why not?


The Visual Memory Unit was a unique memory card that plugged into the Dreamcast’s controllers to store game data, or act as a second-screen for some games since it has a monochrome LCD display. It even has basic controls.

Dmitry Grinberg created a custom ARM Cortex chip emulator that runs on the VMU’s CPU, allowing it to run the game, albeit very slowly. Despite the speed, it’s actually even harder to play thanks to the sucky button responsiveness. Still, it’s a neat hack.

[via Hackaday via Gizmodo]

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Swing Copters 2: The New Game From The Flappy Bird Developer

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Infamous Flappy Bird developers Dotgears are back with a new game titled Swing Copters 2, which is releasing today on Android!

Picture Via Droidgamers

Remember early 2013 when Flappy Bird took the world over-night and it seemed all people could talk about was that? The infamous team behind one of the most addictive games of all time, which in turn sparked an endless amount of clones and copycats who attempted to recreate the formula, are now back with a new project dubbed Swing Copters 2. This game is a sequel to their previous Swing Copters, and has all of the style marks that made Dotgears games such a huge hit among the mobile gaming community. These games all appear to be incredibly easy as they only require one button to control, but hide an incredible of difficulty under the surface – death inevitably comes, and comes fast. Luckily, there are basically no loading screens, and you can jump back into the game right away which only makes it even more maddening, as you’ll grow obsessed with it in no time. That’s exactly what a mobile game should do anyways, right?

In Swing Copters 2 Dotgears are keeping much of their iconic pixel-art style, and the one-touch does everything interface which makes their games so simple yet so enraging when we fail. Just like the previous entry of the Swing Copters series, players will control one character wearing a head-mounted helicopter system as if it was a regular cap, and players have to tap to the sides to help him avoid obstacles and change directions because there are some mighty hammers spinning all throughout the stages. Of course, one hit kills you, but you have infinite lives to overcome that non-issue.

Unlike Flappy Bird, this game features some characterization and story, with many playable characters (Spinki, Fabi, and Pinki) who have to now face the hurdles of adulthood and get real jobs. What’s more, each description goes into great detail so you get to know and care for these characters, and you can read all about it in the Swing Copters 2 official website. Just like Swing Copters and Flappy Bird, Swing Copters 2 is completely free and can be downloaded from many places such as the Play Store or Amazon.

Via: Droidgamers

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Flappy Bird Makes the Jump to Arcade Cabinets

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Flappy Bird was quite the phenomenon when it was launched, and the fact that its creator took it off the app stores short time after that made the game even more appealing, with iPhones featuring it selling for up to $10K on the black market.

Considering that it was downloaded 50 million times in the almost 10 months it was available, saying that Flappy Bird was a popular game would be a tremendous understatement. The reason the Vietnamese developer removed it from the app stores was the addictive nature of the game and its capability of bringing any productivity left in modern people to a sudden stop. Needless to say, Bay Tek Games, the creators of the Flappy Bird arcade cabinet, have no such remorse for the poor people who might end up playing the game for days on end.

With an effect that’s quite similar to the Hypnotoad, the Flappy Bird arcade cabinet sports a 42-inch display and a few large buttons, to keep things simple for the ones who aren’t into complex RTS or RPG games. According to the manufacturers, the Flappy Bird-licensed machine has “a game play that will have players coming back for more.”

The nastiest thing about this arcade machine is that it works with coins (or tokens you can buy with coins), so productivity is not the only thing it could ruin. Players get arcade tickets for each set of pipes they bypass, and can struggle to beat the daily or the all-time highscore.

Bay Tek Games hasn’t made public the price of the arcade cabinet, but I’m pretty sure it won’t come cheap. After all, the machine measures 37″ W x 40″ D x 91″H and weighs 300 pounds (370 including the padding necessary for transportation), so even getting it shipped to you will cost a bit. On top of that, I don’t see many individuals paying to have such a cabinet in their homes, so chances are that if people are going to see any of these, it’s going to be in poker bars and other similar locations. After all, the machine was built to make money for the ones who already have money, while offering the poor souls playing the game a very short-lived entertainment.

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Flappy Bird Plush

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Remember Flappy Bird, the frustratingly difficult game where you move a bird up and down through a course of Super Mario-like pipes? It was the biggest game in the IOS app store and then poof! Vanished like an aging teen pop idol. Well it’s back- sort of. Now you can buy a Flappy Bird Plush, a softer and cuter version of the game’s hero.
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The cool thing about this 8″ wide bird is that you can never really lose (unless you’re really uncoordinated). Hold the bird in your hand and let him flap up, down, even sideways and always avoid the obstacles in your home or office. Plus this bird hasn’t been pulled out of the store just when he’s at the peak of popularity. You can even take out your frustrations with the game by throwing this plush Flappy Bird across the room or giving him a good hard smack- don’t try that with your iPhone!
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Swing Copters, the new game from the creator of Flappy Bird

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Users who enjoyed this year’s maddening Flappy Bird and its million clones will be happy to learn that its creator has a new game incoming. Its title is Swing Copter, and it launches next thursday, the 21st of August.

Vietnamese game creator Dong Nguyen found an unlikely hit with Flappy Bird, and although he ended up hating the game and pulling it down from the app stores, that didn’t stop everyone and their mothers from talking about it. If the story is to repeat itself, Nguyen’s next candidate is Swing Copters, which Touch Arcade claims will release next thursday for free, with an option to remove all ads for 99 cents.

Swing Copters is similar in spirit to Flappy Bird, as it will still have players maneuvering and dodging obstacles. Whereas in Flappy Bird players tapped to move up, in Swing Copters they will have to move left and right. It’s not clear which platofrms it’s going to be available for, but probably we’ll end up seeing it in both Android and iOS. The question remains, though, will it be as addicting as Flappy Bird? If it succeeds, will it piss Nguyen off nearly as much as Flappy Bird did? We’ll see. Maybe it was light in a bottle, maybe Nguyen is the Miyamoto of mobiles creating the most strangely compelling titles.

Via Polygon

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Flappy Bird to Relaunch in August With Multiplayer

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After being pulled from the App Store and Google Play Store by creator Dong Nguyen, Flappy Bird will be returning in August, complete with multiplayer.

You don’t make the world’s most notoriously difficult game without treading on a few toes, at least not in Dong Nguyen’s case, as the Vietnam-based developer brought Flappy Bird to the world’s mobile devices causing players to lash out in frustration at just how hard it is to control the game’s aerially challenged character. It wasn’t just the usual slew of anger either as it spilled out in acerbic runs of racial abuse and verbal bile that saw Nguyen pull the game from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store in an effort to get everyone to leave him alone. Predictably, given how popular Flappy Bird is, it didn’t quite work with plenty of people still chomping at the bit for a chance to play Flappy Bird once more (some people have even gone to the length of renting out phones just to play it) and so as a result, Nguyen is set to bring the game back in August.

His decision to bring Flappy Bird back to our mobile devices once more is unclear, but the game’s creator did explain what we can expect from Flappy Bird v 2.0 when he revealed his plans to news outlet CNBC. Nguyen says that the number one reason why we shouldn’t expect the new version of the game soon is because he’s going to add multiplayer to it. The game already has some subtle multiplayer aspects – if you call complaining about the game or boasting about your score to your friends ‘multiplayer’, that is – so adding a tangible multiplayer mode to Flappy Bird would likely soothe the pain of being absolutely rubbish at it.

Furthermore, while Nguyen’s idea sounds great, there is a question of whether or not Flappy Bird will reach its once-meteoric heights of as many of the mobile success stories we’ve seen (e.g Angry Birds) have been sustained efforts, with the developers in those cases never deciding to pull their star game from virtual store shelves. Too, after Flappy Bird was removed from sale, an actual Flappy Bird MMO (of sorts) was released and while it was God awful (lag was a key feature of said MMO), it may have dimmed the light of Nguyen’s upcoming Flappy Bird rerelease so we’ll keep you posted once we know more.

Source: CNET

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Flappy Bird Returns

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flappy birdYep, you read that right, Flappy Bird is returning to the app store in August.

Dong Nguyen, creator of the game, said the new version will be less addictive and will have the option of multi-player capabilities. Nguyen previously had pulled the game off the market after he noticed people becoming addicted. He felt people should spend their time doing more productive things than playing a game. Ironically, at the high point he was making $50,000 a day with over 50 million downloads of the hit game.

Nguyen also announced that he created a new game with similar concept. He Tweeted “I am making a new game, so people can forget about Flappy Bird for a while.” There was only a screen shot of the new game that might be similar to Flappy Bird, with a person jumping from building to building.

Flappy Bird is Coming Back in August

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I played Flappy Bird a few times before it was pulled off the App Store by its maker for being too addictive. I hated the game. I never wanted to throw my iPhone so badly in my life as I did with that frustratingly hard game. If you are one of the masses who were upset when the game was killed, you will love this.
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Flappy Bird is coming back and will hit the App Store in August. The designer, Dong Nguyen, says that the new version of the game will be less addictive and will have multi-player capability. I’m not sure if the changes will make the game better or worse – or if nobody will care anymore by August.

Nguyen pulled the game off the App Store voluntarily at the height of its popularity. That led to some odd shenanigans by fans with people selling phones with the game installed for big money on eBay and hoards of copycat games.

[via Telegraph Image: TabTimes]