The Angry Birds Revolution
Welcome to the first post in Retro2Now, Mobile Gaming . In this series, we wind the clock back to check out games that didn't just hang out on our phones. They kind of defined whole chunks of mobile fun back in the day. We'll dig into where they started, what made them blow up, and how their impact shows up now in this super advanced mobile world we got. For the kickoff, it makes sense to spotlight the game that got everyone flinging stuff. You know, the one that turned thumb swipes into this huge worldwide thing. Let's get into Angry Birds. Back to the world before that flock showed up, think about 2009, the Apple App Store was just a year old. It felt like this wild digital frontier full of chances. Mobile gaming mostly meant quick time-killers. We had stuff like Snake on those old Nokia phones and some basic puzzles too. But nothing really grabbed the big crowd on these new touchscreen gadgets. Smartphones were like rockets ready to blast off. They just needed the righ...