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What do you get if you combine a game, crack, and a full-frontal lobotomy? Flappy Bird, of course. The most infuriatingly mindless, mind-bogglingly simple, inexplicably popular game since the last infuriatingly mindless, mind-bogglingly simple, inexplicably popular bird-themed game. Only this time around, Flappy Bird makes Angry Birds look like a real-life B-2 Bombing Simulator.If you haven't yet downloaded it onto your pocket communicator, what's wrong with you? It's free! Not free-to-play-but-I'll-mug-ya-later free, but no-cash-now-or-ever free. No less than 18,500,000 satisfied customers have sampled the delights of Flappy, so it must be good, right? Nope. It's utterly crap. But yet it's strangely playable, curiously addictive and so, so easy to hate.
It's essentially an endless scroller where you tap the screen to fly the eponymous Flappy Joust-style between the (ripped off from Super Mario Bros) pipes that protrude from the top and bottom of the screen. Successfully navigating the gap between pipes scores you a whole delicious point, and failing to do so ends the game. And that's it. It's so simple you wonder why people would ever play it. And then you do, and you keep playing it. Unless you're devoid of compulsive gaming tendencies, in which case you can justifiably sit back, adopt a superior, smug expression and tut-tut at the rest of humanity with as much derision as can be mustered from a pair of tuts.
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