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What is that one thing that has become a common headache to all the bosses around the world?

Angry Birds.

The game is something you do not need introduction to. It is a game with the simplest of objectives one could think of; the birds are desperate to retrieve their eggs, which were stolen by a group of Evil Pigs. The birds decide to have an all-out attack on the various structures where the Pigs are hiding, destroy the pigs, and claim the Eggs. The birds are flightless, and the player has to force them towards the structure using a slingshot, on which these birds jump rather excitedly…

The game was launched in December 2009, by the Finland-based mobile app powerhouse Rovio, for Apple’s iOS. The whole concept started off when senior Game designer, Jaakko Iisalo submitted his design of very angry looking birds for the new app the company was developing, in March 2009. As the concept developed, the team realized that Angry Birds needed some enemy. And guess what, the news of Swine Flu in 2009 initiated the idea of Pigs as the villains for the game!

Who would have thought this game would become such a phenomenon? It is 2011, just a year and a half after the launch, and the company has already sold 12 million (!) of the game! And as all of us will agree, that is just the legal number. I don’t even want to think how many of us have the pirated versions and the cracks downloaded via torrents or DC!! The Wikipedia page on Angry Birds declares it ‘one of the most mainstream games out right now’.

Looking at the success charts of the app, Rovio also released Angry Birds Android app and the PC version too (phew!). The office hours are now no longer boring, and the bosses too are less angry. Who would want to waste energy shouting or sulking, when you can simply release your pent up frustration on a group of Ugly green Pigs troubling our cute little (and really angry) birds? The game was intended to be easy to comprehend, and yet interesting enough to captivate every person playing it. And as we can all see, the team succeeded. What a bliss it is, watching the small birds fight their way to get back their beloved eggs? The game does not require skill, nor does it require any sort of planning as do many other games in the same fame league that it is in now. No wonder it has become such a wave in such a short time!

I wouldn’t be surprised if tomorrow, I see a +2 student practicing projectile motion with angry birds (:P). It would be awesome watching people sitting with rulers measuring all the distances on their computer screens… the other thing I can imagine is military practicing aiming in a virtual reality version of angry birds! Imagination is running wild… very wild. But as they say, everything starts with an idea, doesn’t it?

Latest to fall into the vicious trap of the birds and pigs are the housewives! Those boring days of solitude spent alone at home are now shared with the over destructive birds… It is fun watching mum and dad play angry birds; the excitement in their eyes, watching that twinkle that had gone missing due to something or the other is priceless… but once they are stuck, it is very difficult to get them moving! And now the game has become so famous, that recent cartoons on the Facebook/Google plus squabble are using the angry birds’ idea too! It is hilarious, the ideas people come up with… human brain is just brilliant!

I was talking about this!

 Rovio’s statistics say that people across the world spend a hundred million hours a day (!) playing angry birds! Commendable, isn’t it? It really shocks me how much time we can spend on things we get addicted to. This drives me into deep thought about human behaviour, but I am quickly, very quickly broken out of it, just as my brother announces he has got a gen mobile game version of angry birds! I’m seriously hoping I manage to convince him to *send via Bluetooth*! :D

Who can stop playing when the yellow bird shouts “oye hoye!” as you sling it into the air?! Not me, for sure…