If you haven’t heard of Angry Birds yet, don’t worry, you will soon. Actually you should be a little concerned because as trends go this one is hot. Even Dick Chaney knows about Angry Birds.
Angry Birds is a cute little game for the iPhone, iPad and many other devices. In a nut shell you aim birds at a target and try to knock it down. In the version we have been playing since Christmas you try to hit pigs. Annoying little pigs who grunt and mock your (my) inability to topple over the structures they hide in and thus destroy them.
It’s an addicting game, believe me.
I’m not sure why the birds are angry, though I suppose if I were being lobbed into annoying little pigs I might be a little pissed off too. Regardless, the makers of Angry Birds, Rovio, plan to turn the popular game into an animated series. Think Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Like most pulled-off-the-web-for-a-TV-show things I can’t imagine what the story line might be about. Shit My Dad says is a show currently on TV that was taken from a Twitter Feed. The show sucks but it has a few good zingers, though not enough to make me find it on the TV schedule and actually watch it. I’m sure the Angry Birds animated series will be a hit with kids all over the place but if the show sounds like the game it might drive parents crazy. There is no dialog, just sounds the birds and pigs make as things blow up around them. The lack of dialog has never prevented a show from being popular with kids, both Smurfs and Pokemon had quite the run and their dialog consisted of “It’s a smurftastic day in the smurfy woods” and for Pokemon all the writers had to do was have the characters say their names over and over again, just changing the inflection for get across tone.
Video games haven’t been around long enough to become true classics. They have not stood the test of time like Parcheesi, Scrabble or a game of Bingo. Families might gather around the Wii or Xbox to play these games and there might be the intense competition that a game like Parcheesi inspires but you can’t take it camping with you. Oh, wait, you can. Never mind. I’ve played a lot of video games over the last 20 years and some of them are wonderful. My son and I have been playing the Nintendo Zelda games since he was born (this might explain why he wants the Triforce tattooed on his back next month) but for some reason when I think of family fun I think of board games. Maybe because they are visible in old snapshots from when I was a kid and it’s difficult at best to take a picture of a family playing a video game and have the actual game come to mind years later when looking at the photograph. We might know we were playing the Wii but what game might be difficult to spot.
Not that it matters because our family hasn’t played a board game since last summer when I tried to get my daughter and some of her friends outside and used the game Life to entice her. At first it was fun to punch out all the pieces and set up the board but when it came time to play the game no one wanted to read the directions. There are no directions on video games, only cheat codes. Kids might not want to read directions on a board game but I promise you they will search out the internet to find the cheat codes.
I’m sure Angry Birds will be a hit. We will see McDonald’s include little Angry Birds in their Happy Meals and soon they will be everywhere.
Already I don’t want to play the game anymore.
I hope they don’t make a TV show out of Plants v Zombies because I love that game.
I’m pretty sure the birds are angry because they know, at any time, they could just fall dead from the sky by the thousands.
The only angry birds I know are the eagles that live across the river. The watch us. They watch the chickens. They especially watch the Farm cats. And the new kids. If something is missing around here that is small, furry and edible we blame the eagles across the river.
That is scary and sad. We have eagles in our area. In the summer they are all over the place and I do worry about the cat getting picked up.
I like playing Angry Birds on my iPhone, but I dont think I would be able to withstand watching it as an animated television show. In fact, I was never so happy when my days of watching Children’s Programs were finally over.
Tell me about it. I am so thankful I don’t have to watch the Wiggles ever again.
You cant PAY me to watch kids shows ever again!
I don’t have an IPhone – hell, I’m just lucky to get my cell phone charged up enough to make calls. This game, though, reminds me of ,”Castle Clout” – an online game from the character arcade featured on USA network – it’s basically the same idea, but there is blood involved at times. Oh, and a few groans of pain.
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No blood in angry birds just a lot of feathers flying as they explode. I rarely use my phone for actually making calls anymore.
I’ve heard of the game but I like games and if it’s as addicting as I hear…it would be very bad for me. TV show? Really? What don’t they make a show from anymore? We like to play Trouble and Sorry. We also play the Wii and on Vacation I got some great shots of our ending bowling score where I kicked everyone’s drunk asses (the kids were asleep).
I love bowling and play much better when drinking. You would really like this game but if you are afraid you will kill hours of the day with it you shouldn’t play. Don’t play Plants v Zombies either, that game will take over days of your life.
I keep seeing that game, but never really fancied it. If it’s addictive, I don’t think I’ll download it. I have enough games on my iPhone. Any more and I’d get nothing else done 🙂
Cut the Rope is another fun one. Both Angry Birds and Cut the Rope are physics based games but don’t let that scare you. I suck at math but can still play the games.
Have you tried Tiki Totems? I have that on my iPhone, and have played all the levels now. Also addictive 🙂
Do you know I have never checked out this game on the iPhone and I’m assuming it’s because you have to buy it and I only do FREE stuff unless I know absolutely for sure I’m going to use it on a regular basis. I’m totally cheap about some things, but extravagant in others, like…iPhones.
They have a free version which sucks you into buying the full version which on the iPhone costs about 99 cents. It’s worth every penny.
you do know that what caused the birds to drop from the sky in Arkansas.
No classic video games – ah what about Pac-man, Space Invaders, Tetris?
Today I posted about a new game coming out that is cool because “your mom hates it”. Have you seen the ad yet? You will.
There are classics, Pac-Man and all the ones you mentioned are indeed classics, but video games kinda make the rounds and then new ones replace. They are classic because of nostalgia, not because we keep playing them.
That’s the thing. We don’t keep playing them, but kids do. They’re into retro and old gaming consoles. But you’re right. not in the same way that we pull out the old Scrabble board. The one where the corners of the box are all taped up.
Princess Gail plays Angry Birds and loves it. She especially plays during our many road trips. But a movie or tv show?!? Sounds pretty dumb. Any plot or story line would have absolutely nothing to do with the game. I suppose if the characters are cute enough, kids will love it even if they have never played the game. Weird world.
About board games. Gail and I play Lexulous (Scrabble through facebook) every day. Nothing like the old board games, even if we don’t use an actual board anymore.
Moooooog got a new board game, http://www.midgetmanofsteel.com/2011/01/some-shit-i-forgot-to-write-about.html, he thought it was a lot of fun.
LMFAO! I had never been to his site. That board game was hilarious… and kinda turned me on. LOL
I just got a new iPad. Maybe I should try this app out on it. You know, just because I can.
Keep gloating, I’ve been playing it on my iPad for a month. Isn’t it awesome
and everything you thought it would be? Do you use yours in the bathroom?
I’ve been shopping around for a pad thing, but I’ve been trying to avoid the iPad. So far, none of them have a screen that compares to the iPad’s. The iPad is ‘gasmic.