• @[email protected]
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    5111 months ago

    Wild. I remember Angry Birds was everywhere, almost Pokemon-levels of public appeal and generating wheelbarrows of money.

    And then poof, like beanie babies and tamogatchis.

      • @danwardvs
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        111 months ago

        I wouldn’t want to be your friend around dinner time.

    • Bythe
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      1711 months ago

      They went from ‘1 dollar to get the full game’, with starwars deals and so on to ‘generic p2w for whales’. The innovation wasn’t here anymore and they shot themselves in the foot with dumb pricing/gameplay.

    • TimeSquirrel
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      1011 months ago

      It’s still popular with some young kids, my son still plays the series and loves the movies. You just don’t see everyone and their grandma playing it anymore.

  • @[email protected]
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    4111 months ago

    Hmmm.

    Sega is a subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings. Sammy is a major developer of pachinko machines.

    I wonder where this is going?

    • @[email protected]
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      1311 months ago

      go to your local pachinko parlor
      buy a lot of pachinko balls
      see birds flying according to the speed of the balls you input in the machine

      • probablyaCat
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        1011 months ago

        I mean, I don’t play pachinko, but I think it’d be more fun if the balls had the birds on them and you knocked some piggies down as you bounced down the machine or at least knocked them down at the bottom depending on where you landed.

  • Tick Dracy
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    3411 months ago

    Let’s hope Sega has some decency and restores the Angry Birds Classic to the mobile stores, which should had never left, in the first place!

    • @[email protected]
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      911 months ago

      Yes! I thought the original was just a fever dream I had. It was far superior. Bring it back.

      • Björn Tantau
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        27 months ago

        Fun fact: The original Angry Birds had its debut on the Nokia N900 - the best Linux phone to ever grace the planet.

  • illectrility
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    411 months ago

    Why? Isn’t Rovio pretty much dead?

    • higgsOP
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      611 months ago

      Angry Birds is still a big brand. Not as big as during their prime time but as long as you can make money with it, it’s worth it