Retro Flapping

I guess very few have missed the Internet phenomena Flappy Bird. It is a rare occasion when a game is retracted for being addictive.

There are a number of clones out there. According to arstechnica you can run it on your Pebble watch, Nintendo 3DS, basically and conceivable smartphone out there, and more.

More interestingly, according to boingboing, you can also have a go on your Atari 2600, ZX81, TI calculator or C64. This really shows that the gaming experience that you can get from a multicore gigahertz smartphone packing gigabytes of RAM and FLASH can be achieved using a few thousand bytes of ram, a couple of megaherts and an 8 bit CPU.

Of course you can play it on the Raspberry Pi as well!

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