December 11, 2009 - July 2019
(9 years, 6 months, 2 weeks and 6 days or 9 years, 7 months, 2 weeks and 6 days)
Maemo, iOS
December 1, 2009 (Finland)
December 11, 2009 (international)
Android
October 15, 2010
Windows Phone
June 2011
Rovio Classics: Angry Birds
March 31, 2022 – February 23, 2023
(10 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) (only to be removed from Google Play Store)
Red's First Flight
February 23, 2023 - present (iOS)
(3 months and 3 days)
Angry Birds (also known as Angry Birds Classic, later remade as Rovio Classics: Angry Birds) is a 2009 casual puzzle video game developed by Finnish video game developer Rovio Entertainment. Inspired primarily by a sketch of stylized wingless birds, the game was first released for iOS and Maemo devices starting in December 2009. By October 2010, 12 million copies of the game had been purchased from the iOS App Store, which prompted the developer to design versions for other touchscreen-based smartphones, most notably Android, Symbian, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry 10 devices. The series has since expanded to include titles for dedicated video game consoles and PCs. A sequel, Angry Birds 2, was released in July 2015 for iOS and Android. Around April 2019, the original game was removed from the App Store. A paid recreation of the game's content from 2012 was released as Rovio Classics: Angry Birds on March 31, 2022, but later on, Rovio mentioned that they were removing it from the Google Play Store on February 23, 2023, and retitling it as Red’s First Flight.
The gameplay revolves around players using a slingshot to launch the birds at green Pigs stationed in or around various structures, with the intent of destroying all the Pigs on the playing field. As players advance through the game, new types of birds become available (some with special abilities that can be activated by the player). Rovio Mobile has supported Angry Birds with numerous free updates that add additional game content, and the company has also released stand-alone holiday and promotional versions of the game.
Angry Birds was eventually praised by critics for its success at leveraging a combination of addictive gameplay, comical style, and low price into a viable franchise with long-term potential for profit. The game's popularity has led to the release of Angry Birds games for personal computers and gaming consoles, created a market for merchandise featuring the Angry Birds characters, a 2016 feature-length animated film, a 2019 sequel to said film, and several seasons of television cartoons. The Angry Birds series had a combined tally of over five billion downloads across all platforms, as of April 2022, including special editions. After its release, the original game was called "one of the most mainstream games out in 2010", "one of the great runaway hits of 2010", and "the largest mobile app success the world has seen as of 2011".
Summary
Sound Effects Used
Ari Pulkkinen Era
- Angry Birds Red Bird Launch Sound (Debut)
- Angry Birds Blue Bird Launch Sound (Debut)
- Angry Birds Yellow Bird Launch Sound (Debut)
- Angry Birds Black Bird Launch Sound (Debut)
- Angry Birds White Bird Launch Sound (Debut)
- Angry Birds Green Bird Launch Sound (Debut; was unused for a while until replacing Boomerang Bird's original cry, which was composed of pre-existing bird squawks)
- Angry Birds Big Brother Bird Launch Sound (Debut)
- Angry Birds Orange Bird Launch Sound (Made its debut in Seasons but made its way in via the Birdday Party level pack)
- Angry Birds Pigs Laughing Sound (Debut)
- Sound Ideas, AIRPLANE, JET - FAST PASS BY, LONG/SHORT
- Sound Ideas, BIRD, PREHISTORIC - HARSH SCREECH 02 (Used for the Mighty Eagle.)
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, POP - BIG POP 03
- Sound Ideas, FOREST, ASIA - ASIA: DAYTIME AMBIENCE, BIRDS 01
- Sound Ideas, JUNGLE, SOUTH AMERICA - SOUTH AMERICA: MORNING AMBIENCE, BIRDS, INSECTS (Used for "Green Jungleish" ambience)
- Sound Ideas, MAGIC - LITTLE HARP GLISS
- Sound Ideas, MAGIC - WILD MAGIC HARP 01
- Sound Ideas, POOF, CARTOON - BIG VOCAL POOF
- Sound Ideas, POOF, CARTOON - SHORT FLAPPING VOCAL POOF 02
- Sound Ideas, ROCKS, EARTHQUAKE - RUMBLE, CREAKS, CRASHES, TUMBLING, AVALANCHE (Used for the Birdquake power-up.)
- Sound Ideas, WATER, DRIP - WATER DRIPPING IN CAVE 02
Post Ari Pulkkinen Era
- Angry Birds Pink Bird Launch Sound (Made its debut in Seasons but made its way in via the Birdday Party level pack)
- Hollywoodedge, Electricity Arcing 1 PE200101
- Hollywoodedge, Impact Metal Bar Hit TE2040401
- Hollywoodedge, Impact Metal Crowba TE2040801
- Hollywoodedge, Impact Metal Crowba TE2040802
- Hollywoodedge, Impact Metal Crowba TE2040803
- Hollywoodedge, Impact Metal Pipe Dr TE2040701
- Hollywoodedge, Impact Metal Pipe Dr TE2040702
- Hollywoodedge, Impact Metal Pipe Dr TE2040703
- Hollywoodedge, Impact Metal Pipe Dr TE2040704
- Hollywoodedge, Impact Vari Metal Ba TE2040501
- Hollywoodedge, Impact Vari Metal Ba TE2040502
- Hollywoodedge, Impact Vari Metal Ba TE2040503
- Hollywoodedge, Impact Vari Metal Ba TE2040504
- Hollywoodedge, Impact Vari Metal Ba TE2040505
- Hollywoodedge, Impact Vari Metal Ba TE2040601
- Hollywoodedge, Impact Vari Metal Ba TE2040602
- Hollywoodedge, Impact Vari Metal Ba TE2040603
- Hollywoodedge, Impact Vari Metal Ba TE2040604
- Hollywoodedge, Metal Hits Metal Pipe FS010603
- Sound Ideas, CLOCK, CUCKOO - STRIKE ONE O'CLOCK
- Sound Ideas, ELECTRICITY - ARC ZAPS
- Sound Ideas, ELECTRICITY - JACOB'S LADDER ARCING
- Sound Ideas, ELECTRICITY, SPARK - HIGH VOLTAGE SPARK, ELECTRICAL 01
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, ELECTRICITY - SHORT ELECTRICAL ARC