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Angry Birds is a Finnish action-based media franchise created by Rovio Entertainment. The game series focuses on the eponymous flock of angry birds who try to save their eggs from green-colored pigs. Inspired by the game Crush the Castle, the game has been praised for its successful combination of fun gameplay, comical style, and low price. Its popularity led to many spin-offs; versions of Angry Birds created for PCs and video game consoles, a market for merchandise featuring its characters, Angry Birds Toons, a televised animated series, and two films; The Angry Birds Movie and its sequel The Angry Birds Movie 2. By January 2014, there had been over 2 billion downloads across all platforms, including both regular and special editions.
By July 2015, the series' games had been downloaded more than 3 billion times collectively, making it the most downloaded freemium game series of all time. The original Angry Birds has been called "One of the most mainstream games out right now", "One of the great runaway hits of 2010", and "The largest mobile app success the world has seen so far". The first main-series video game sequel, Angry Birds 2, was released on July 30, 2015.
The first game in the series was initially released on December 11, 2009 for iOS. At the time, the 2009 swine flu epidemic was in the news, so the staff decided to use pigs as the enemies of the Angry Birds. The company released ports of the game to other touchscreen smartphone operating systems, including Android. In early 2019, all remaining Angry Birds games released before October 2014 (with the exception of Friends) were discontinued and removed from app stores, though Bad Piggies was added back in early 2020. Rovio has declined to explain their reasoning behind the decision apart from a brief tweet and support response, both giving different answers. However in June 2021, by popular demand of the fans, Rovio announced that the classic games will be available on the stores again sometime in the future. A recreated version of the original Angry Birds game known as Rovio Classics: Angry Birds came to mobile platforms on March 31, 2022.
The video game series has many games which are the original Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Friends, Angry Birds Space, Angry Birds Star Wars, Angry Birds Star Wars II, Angry Birds Go!, Angry Birds Epic, Angry Birds Transformers, Angry Birds Fight!, Angry Birds 2 (formerly known as Angry Birds: Under Pigstruction), Angry Birds Action!, Angry Birds Football, Angry Birds Ace Fighter (formerly known as Angry Birds Sky Fighters), Angry Birds Holiday, Angry Birds Blast!, Angry Birds Dice, Angry Birds Islands, Angry Birds Evolution, Angry Birds Match, Angry Birds Island, Angry Birds Dream Blast, Angry Birds Tennis, Angry Birds Legends, Angry Birds Reloaded, Angry Birds: Bird Island (on Roblox), (also known as Angry Birds: Mayhem Simulator and Angry Birds: Destruction Simulator), and Angry Birds Journey with Angry Birds Double Crossed, Angry Birds Launch It!, and Angry Birds Crazy Golf, releasing in the future. The spin-offs are Bad Piggies, Angry Birds Stella, Angry Birds POP! (formerly known as Angry Birds Stella POP!), Angry Birds POP Blast (formerly known as Angry Birds POP 2), and the upcoming Bad Piggies 2.
In The Simpsons[]
Angry Birds, parodied as Furious Fliers, first appear in "The Food Wife" in the first few minutes of the episode at the video game convention. The birds are giant and green just like Hal, the Boomerang Bird, and get shot at a Children's Hospital Construction instead of hitting bean bag pigs which are red unlike in the actual video game series which they are green in. Angry Birds is the most dowloaded game on iPod, iPad, and iPhone. Red made a cameo in the Super Bowl trailer for Rio along with the level to find the Super Bowl golden egg.