Flappy Bird became a sensation among smartphone users, with many of us spending far too long getting the little yellow guy to climb higher and higher along pipes. But, it didn't last long, with it soon pulled from app stores.

You have probably heard of Flappy Bird – the simple but oh so frustrating game that required you to time perfected taps to ensure a bird avoided randomly placed green pipes. There wasn't a huge amount to it but it was unbelievably addictive at the time of its existence,

So, Flappy Bird is back, albeit with a murky new backstory. Will The Flappy Bird Foundation pull off the comeback? It's possible. However, there are already critics of the new game based on what appears to be a new addition to Flappy Bird: The dreaded micro-transaction.

Flappy Bird set the bar (or rather pipes, placed randomly) for mobile game simplicity. Between that and its bizarrely high level of difficulty, it created a devilish blend of game-playing compulsion I have rarely seen, before or since.

The creator of the ultra-addictive mobile-phone game Flappy Bird has disavowed plans to relaunch the title as a GameFi product in his first

Flappy Bird, the game that many were obsessed with a decade ago, may be coming back, but its original creator is not involved. On Sept. 12, it was announced on X (formerly Twitter) that the beloved game was returning.

Flappy Bird took the world by storm in 2013 before being dramatically pulled out by its creator, Dong Nguyen, in 2014. It has now returned, but this time with a different team, a new platform, and crypto backers.