14 DAY TRIAL // More than a week into the demise of Flappy Bird, the Internet’s dumbest sensation since Gangnam Style, clones of the game keep trickling in and, perhaps more importantly, continue to top the free downloads chart on iTunes.
It’s not surprising, really. Remember when Daft Punk’s Get Lucky came out and everyone had a mix at it? Or Jean-Claude van Damme’s epic split, and so on, and so forth?
Anything sells as long as people keep babbling about it. In fact, I’m helping these guys rake in more downloads as I’m writing these lines.
So what makes these games so popular? Well, it’s the hype generated by Flappy Bird, of course. Now that the original is nowhere in sight, those who didn’t get the chance to download the game are settling for the next best thing.
I reviewed one of the clones recently – Flappy Wings – and I actually found it to be a more enjoyable experience than the original Flappy Bird. Flying Cyrus is decent too, if I may dare call it that.
I can’t vow for Splashy Fish, but at least this developer had the good will not to copy the name of the game, like so many others have done.