Nguyen’s Flappy Bird launched in 2013, and took off the following year. By the end of January 2014, Flappy Bird became the most downloaded game on Apple’s App Store, racking up more than 50 ...

In the end, a rudimentary “Flappy Bird” game is loaded into the system. It only took [Seth] an hour to pull this off, but the early parts of the chain are so critical that he can’t make any ...

But Flappy Bird took off several months after its launch ... both the iPhone App Store and Google's Android Play Store at the end – in early 2014 tech site Mashable said it had hit the number ...