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Dec 2024
10m 42s

Angry Birds Begins

The Retrospectors
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Mobile game Angry Birds debuted on the App Store on 11th December, 2009. The quirky and fun cartoonish characters and addictive gameplay found fans - but it took Apple featuring the app as their ‘Game of the Week’ in early 2010 for the Finnish creation to become a cultural juggernaut, catapulting mobile gaming into the mainstream. Angry Birds wasn’t just a g ... Show More
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