Original Angry Birds game is back in the App Store and Google Play Store

Can you believe that it has been 10 years since the first Angry Birds game was released by Rovio? As more and more versions of the game popped up, the Angry Birds soon became a marketing juggernaut with the easily recognizable characters found on cartoons, clothing, board games, television sets, and even on movie screens where they starred in two full-length motion pictures.

While Rovio might never reach its ambitious goal to top Disney, there is an Angry Birds theme park in Tampere, Finland that remains open. The original Angry Birds game was launched on December 11th, 2019 for iOS and debuted on Android in September of the next year. The original Angry Birds game was removed from app stores in 2019 but there is big news to tell you today!

The original Angry Birds game, the one that started it all, is now available once again on the App Store and Google Play Store for iOS and Android respectively. Rovio CEO Alex Pelletier-Normand said, "We are extremely grateful to have such an amazing community of engaged fans that care deeply about our games."

"Angry Birds has touched so many people and has been a large presence in mobile gaming," the executive noted. "After hearing the outcry from our fans, we just had to find a way to bring Angry Birds back." The game has been rebuilt from the bottom up allowing owners of newer devices to play while still able to have the original 2012 experience.

The executive producer of the game, Sami Ronkainen, said, "While we were rebuilding Angry Birds, we took great care to preserve the feeling of the original Angry Birds game,” says executive producer, Sami Ronkainen. "We know our fans are a discerning bunch and will be able to pick out even small differences. Matching the gameplay, physics and appearance of the game next to the original was crucial."

Rovio is tossing in for free that swine-destroying foul fowl Mighty Eagle which used to cost 99 cents as an in-app purchase back in the day. If you want to take a nostalgic trip back in time to those carefree days, install the appropriate app and shell out 99 cents, which is how much the game costs. And if you missed the Angry Birds craze when it happened the first time, here is your chance to see what the fuss was all about.

The object of the game is to use the slingshot on the screen to propel one of the birds toward the pigs. The goal in each level is to hit and destroy all of the pigs who are protected by materials such as wood, glass, stone, and other materials. Your attack birds need to destroy the protective structures that the pigs hide behind.

After a while, you'll get a feel for aiming the slingshot and be able to hit the pigs and their protective materials. And of course, there are plenty of other Angry Birds games in the App Store or Google Play Store including:

Angry Birds 2 (iOS, Android)

Angry Birds Friends (iOS, Android). This game allows you to compete with other players in Angry Birds tournaments.

Speaking of birds, in May 2013, a Vietnamese developer named Dong Nguyen released Flappy Bird. This was a side-scrolling game that asked the player to navigate Flappy Bird in between green pipes. The game became popular and was generating $50,000 in advertising revenue for Nguyen daily. But the creator of the game felt guilty about the game's addictive nature and pulled it from both the App Store and the Google Play Store.

The popularity of Flappy Bird was never in doubt. After the game was removed from the Play Store, some Ebay merchants were offering phones with the Flappy Bird game pre-installed for prices as high as $1,499. Bids ran as high as $90,000 for these handsets. Ebay quickly took down all listings of phones that had Flappy Bird pre-installed.