Flash back to flappy birds

Lets talk back to our once best selling app and its fall

Flappy bird, frustrating as it may be, appeals to the most basic of human conscious - EGO.
I'll come to this later but first about the game, as viewers that said it has a simple premise, the game is free and though released in 2013 it went best selling busting charts only in Jan 2014 after it was released to wider audience on Android. Also the game requirements are as low as they can be, and with and 8 bit ambiance and retro styling appeals to the kid in us who grew up with his daily dose of Mario.
Now coming to the Ego part, once you have downloaded the game and learnt to keep your bird airborne for a few seconds, the first pipe hits you.Frustrated at not even opening your score you tap vigorously at your screen and manage the first point and if lucky the second. .After learning the objective of the game and gaining some mastery over the bird you check the leaderboard and realise the top score is much much ahead than yours.
Defeated you exit the game but hell there is no exit button !
You promise yourselves that you'll not touch the game again but somewhere at the back of your mind you are not ready to accept defeat. Not to some crappy bird who can't learn to fly. AND bam! Just like that you are hooked.
And as one reviewer so clearly stated " welcome to Darkness" and frustratingly long hours of tapping at your screen.

The game's appeal lies in its simplicity, no in-app purchases and that challenge to your subconscious - you were beaten by a bird.

Sadly the developer has taken down this game to reclaim his life even though the game was raking in 50000$ per day through ads alone ?

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