Track: Main Theme Game: Angry Birds Publisher(s): Rovio Composer(s): Ari Pulkkinen Character: Red
Angry Birds, retrospectively known as Angry Birds Classic, is a 2009 physics-based casual puzzle video game developed by 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, utilizing 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. Many critics consider Angry Birds to be among the best mobile games ever made, and one of the greatest video games of all time. It led to the creation of the Angry Birds media franchise, which includes merchandise based on its characters, the feature-length animated film The Angry Birds Movie, its sequel The Angry Birds Movie 2, 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 game was remade and released as Rovio Classics: Angry Birds on March 31, 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.
