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In August 2023, Sega bought Rovio for US$776 million and was made a subsidiary of the Sega Europe division. Angry Birds, also retrospectively known as Angry Birds Classic, is a 2009 physics-based casual puzzle video game developed by Finnish video game developer Rovio Entertainment, and the first of the Angry Birds series. Inspired primarily by a sketch of stylized wingless birds, the game was originally released for iOS and Maemo mobile devices starting in December 2009, utilising touchscreen controls.
By October 2010, 12 million copies of the game had been purchased from the Apple App Store and Nokia Ovi Store, prompting Rovio to port Angry Birds to various other mobile devices as well as to home video game consoles, personal computers and others by 2011.
The gameplay of Angry Birds revolves around players using a slingshot to launch the birds at green pigs stationed in or around various structures, with the intent of defeating all of the pigs on the playing field. As players advance through the game, new types of birds become available, some with special abilities. Rovio supported Angry Birds with numerous free updates over the years which added additional game content; many special and themed games were also released thereafter, beginning with Angry Birds Seasons in 2010.
Angry Birds was very well received critically and commercially for its simple and addictive gameplay, comical style, and low price, turning into a mainstream phenomenon during 2010 and 2011, and has been considered one of the greatest video games of all time. It led to the creation of the Angry Birds media franchise consisting of merchandise of its characters, feature-length animated films, and more. The game was followed by a sequel in 2015, Angry Birds 2, and altogether there have been over five billion downloads of the Angry Birds game series across all platforms.
In early 2019, several Angry Birds games, including the original, were removed from the iOS App Store and Android Google Play Store. The original Angry Birds was remade and released as Rovio Classics: Angry Birds on March 20, 2022, four years after the original was removed. Rovio Classics was removed from Google Play on Android on February 23, 2023, and renamed to Red's First Flight on iOS on the same date.
The player controls a flock of multi-colored birds on a mission to save their eggs after they've been stolen by a bunch of green pigs. In each stage of the gameplay, the pigs are sheltered by structures made of various materials such as wood, glass, and stone resembling children's toy building blocks. Some pigs may be inside the structures, while others may be outside them. The objective of the game is to eliminate all the pigs in each level. Using a big slingshot, players launch a limited set of birds with the goal of either striking the enemy pigs directly or damaging their surrounding structures, causing the blocks to collapse and pop the pigs.
The player must set the angle and force of the bird's travel by pulling back on the slingshot (using intuitive touch-controls in the mobile versions). The launch process is quick and casual, with no visible trajectory data, and a player simply selects a point in the X-Y field behind the launch post from which the virtual slingshot will be released. In various stages of the game, additional objects such as TNT crates and rocks are incorporated into the structures, and power-ups may be used to enhance the birds to attack hard-to-reach pigs. Also hidden in the levels, players can unlock bonus levels by collecting golden eggs.
There are several different types of birds used in the game, distinguished by their color and shape. In the first levels, only the basic desert cardinal whose name is Red is available. As the player advances through the game additional types of birds become available. Some birds are effective against particular materials, and some have special abilities that may be activated by the player during the bird's flight. For example, Chuck, a yellow canary, can rapidly speed up; Bomb, a common loon, can explode, hence the name; an eastern bluebird named Jay can fragment into three with the help of his identical siblings, Jake and Jim. Together, they are called the Blues. A chicken called Matilda can drop an explosive egg-shaped projectile; a galah named Stella can trap objects with bubbles; Hal, an emerald toucanet, can open his beak to boomerang back; a large cardinal named Terence, appears and functions similarly to Red, but deals much more damage than his smaller counterpart; and a spot-breasted oriole named Bubbles can expand and inflate. The pigs also vary, with hardiness relative to their size. Small pigs are weaker and are easily vanquished by direct hits or by debris from the damaged structures, while larger pigs are able to withstand more damage before succumbing to defeat. In addition, some pigs wear headgear or armour, making them even more resistant to damage.
Each level starts with the quantity, types, and firing order of birds predetermined. If all of the pigs are eliminated after the last bird is launched, the level is cleared and the next level is unlocked. If all of the birds run out and the pigs are not defeated, the level is failed and must be repeated. Points are scored for each pig defeated as well as for damage to, or destruction of, structures, and hefty bonus points are awarded for any unused birds (each unused bird gives 10000 points). Upon completing each level, players can receive up to three stars depending on the score received. Players are encouraged to repeat any previously beaten levels in which all three stars were not awarded at first in order to fully master them and earn the full three star score.
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