Flappy Bird ported to the C64

[RobertB]

Can't get enough of the game, Flappy Bird, on your cellphone or tablet?  Sad that Flappy Bird was pulled off the app market?  No worries!  Now you can play Flappy Bird on the Commodore 64!  The news hit today that coder .GEARS built the game, and developer Sos ported it.  It is the talk of the Net; just do a Google search for Flappy Bird + C64.  (Boy, there are a lot of links!)

To download Flappy Bird for the C64, go to

          http://sos.gd/flappy64/

               Truly,
               Robert Bernardo
               Fresno Commodore User Group
               http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[QuikSanz]

Actually that's kind of cool. Most games are Amiga ported to phone, this is the other way around. lol.

Chris

[Matt_H]

I've been trying to guess whether the 80s gaming press would have met Flappy Bird with contempt and derisive laughter. I think they would have. Why this game is so popular 30 years after it would have been considered a waste of a floppy disk is beyond me.

The whole melodrama surrounding this game reminds me of this.

[XDelusion]

Oh Lord...

Can't get enough of the game, Flappy Bird, on your cellphone or tablet?  Sad that Flappy Bird was pulled off the app market?  No worries!  Now you can play Flappy Bird on the Commodore 64!  The news hit today that coder .GEARS built the game, and developer Sos ported it.  It is the talk of the Net; just do a Google search for Flappy Bird + C64.  (Boy, there are a lot of links!)

To download Flappy Bird for the C64, go to

          http://sos.gd/flappy64/

               Truly,
               Robert Bernardo
               Fresno Commodore User Group
               http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[Hattig]

I've been trying to guess whether the 80s gaming press would have met Flappy Bird with contempt and derisive laughter. I think they would have. Why this game is so popular 30 years after it would have been considered a waste of a floppy disk is beyond me.

The whole melodrama surrounding this game reminds me of this.

Oh it's stupid, it's a dodge the 1 dimensional obstacles game, by either falling or flying up.

The premise of the game is exactly the same as a BASIC type-in I played with in the 80s, that was called Stardodger IIRC - you had to dodge stars on a 2D map and hit a target at the other side, and it was a single button game too, default down, otherwise up.

[TCMSLP]

I've been trying to guess whether the 80s gaming press would have met Flappy Bird with contempt and derisive laughter. I think they would have. Why this game is so popular 30 years after it would have been considered a waste of a floppy disk is beyond me.
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I think most people playing Flappy Bird today were either not alive in the 80s or had no interest in computers at that time.  Compared to most games today (generally perceived as nerdy and boring) games like Flappy Bird and to a lesser extent Candy_$VARIANT offer an attractive simplicity - anyone can pick it up and understand it, plus they provide a quick sense of improvement/achievement.

Of course, they may be crap by our standards, but we're judging these things differently to your average non-nerdy child or commuter