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.
