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Flappy Bird demakes for Retro consoles
For those of you who have a Smartphone or tablet device would surely know of or heard of
this game that came out in 2013 that was then pulled from respected app stores due to its
frustrating and addictive nature. For those of you who missed out, don’t fret because the
developer is planning on rereleasing the game back to the App Stores in the near future.
A game so simple that has caused much controversy around the world wide web has also
brought many fans together to make various clones of the game. What is more interesting is that many of these clones are in fact demakes, as in fans have made put in such an
exuberant effort to release clones of the game on to older gaming systems.

Flappy Bird
(Commodore 64)
This is not an official release yet it
does bear the same name as well as
the sound and looks of the original
game but only 8bit. Flappy Bird has
been demade for by various fans
of the system and the game. If you
can find a way to play ROMs on a
Commodore then give it a shot!

Here are just some that I’ve covered in my daily news posts over on Retrospekt:

Creepy Bird
Veccy Bird
(Super Nintendo) (Vectrex)
This release is currently in
development by Piko who made
various homebrew games for the
SNES recently as part of a 4-in-1
Multi cart Kickstarter project. This
release throws the game in to a
different theme with a, well, creepy
look but still keeping to the traditional
SNES and Flappy Bird gameplay,
feel, sound and graphics.

This came at quite a surprise coming
across this release. For those of
you who don’t know, The Vectrex is
a console/screen all in one made
in 1983 by Milton Bradley which
primarily focused vector-based
graphics for gaming using overlays to
add colour on to the screen.
If you look around well enough, you
could find a flash cartridge in which
you can add the ROM to the cart
and play this release. Thankfully the
Vectrex is a heavy unit too heavy to
throw across the room in frustration.

Flappo Bird
(Atari 2600)
Flappo Bird is one of the first demake
of Flappy Bird that I came across
and works great on a console as old
as the Atari 2600/VCS. I guess that
is the beauty of simplicity in certain
video games coming back in a big
way and that it doesn’t entail gaming
with around 14 buttons on a game
controller.
Just like Flappy Bird on C64 and
Veccy Bird, ROMs are available on
the web for them and install on flash
cartridges or emulators. They’re
generally free unless these games
are packaged with the cartridges, box
and manual.

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