Angry Birds (partially lost online variations of mobile game; 2009-2014)

From The Lost Media Wiki
Revision as of 14:14, 7 February 2022 by Corvene (talk | contribs) (→‎Gallery)
Jump to: navigation, search
Abchromeloading.jpg

Angry Birds Chrome's loading screen.

Status: Partially Lost

Angry Birds is an action-puzzle gaming franchise developed for mobile phones and PC by Rovio Entertainment. Its games have accumulated over 3 billion downloads in total across various platforms.

Throughout the first half of the 2010s beginning with the release of Angry Birds Chrome, Rovio developed a plethora of Angry Birds games targeted at browsers. Typically, these were created in collaboration with companies or organizations and distributed through Facebook as part of promotional campaigns; thus, they were often temporary and disappeared after a certain amount of time. By the end of 2015, Angry Birds Chrome and all other Angry Birds webgames at the time were discontinued (with the exception of Angry Birds Friends).

Despite the closure of Angry Birds Chrome, the game saw continued use by the AIBIRDS coding competition in the form of a cache archive made available to participants by Rovio.[1] On September 23rd, 2019, the cache was uploaded to the Internet Archive by Riga2ru.[2] Only the first set of levels were playable, with the rest being locked behind a broken login prompt. On April 20th, 2020, a curation for the archival project BlueMaxima's Flashpoint was released through efforts by Wumbo and Computerdude77, restoring the game to its non-cached state and removing the login prompts.[3]

During March 2021, the files for various other Angry Birds webgames were discovered throughout several subdomains of appspot.com, the hosting provider for web applications deployed through the Google App Engine, by members of Flashpoint and the Angry Birds Modding Discord.

List of Games

Game Name Status Playable? Notes
Angry Birds Chrome Found[3] Yes
(Hacked)
Retrieved by AIBIRDS and uploaded to the Internet Archive by Riga2ru. Game has been hacked to run on the modern browser but it loads with no sound so it's currently still stuck on older chromium builds.
Angry Birds Fuji TV Found[3] Yes
(Hacked)
Original embed is only accessible via the Wayback Machine. May crash if the pause menu is used. Game has been hacked to run on the modern browser and uses HTML5 audio.
Angry Birds Telepizza Found[3] Yes
(Hacked)
Original embed is lost. May exhibit cache-related problems. Game has been hacked to run on the modern browser and uses HTML5 audio.
Angry Birds Wonderful Pistachios (aka Angry Birds in The Hunt for the Golden Pistachio) Found Yes
(Hacked)
Game is hacked to make 3-5 and S levels accessible. It has also been hacked to run on the modern browser and uses HTML5 audio.
Angry Birds Tyrkisk Peber Volcano (aka Angry Birds Volcano) Found Yes Discovered by TacoDew.
Angry Birds Philadelphia Eagles Found Yes Discovered by Binaer.
Angry Birds Lotus F1 Team Found Yes Subdomains containing versions greater than 1.0.1.0 are admin-locked.
Angry Birds Ultrabook Adventure Found Yes
(Banner ad)
Yes
(Full game) (Hacked)
Full version is hacked to remove calls to Facebook. A banner ad version is included in the curation. It has 14 levels that can be accessed by changing the query string of the URL.
Angry Birds Heikki Found Yes
(Hacked)
Game is hacked to bypass broken login and make the embed usable with the modified SWF. Additionally, templerun2.com hosts a (likely earlier) version of the SWF without the sitelock.
Angry Birds Vuela Tazos Found Yes (Hacked) Hacked to bypass the login prompt.
Angry Birds Tazos Found Partial Hacked to bypass login prompt. Tazos Power doesn't work.
Angry Birds Cheetos Found Yes (Hacked) Embed includes a developer interface. Hacked to bypass login and the softlock has been patched.
Angry Birds Cheetos 2 Found Yes (Hacked) Discovered by Halo345. Hacked to bypass the login prompt, results screen has been fixed but the end cutscene soft locks the game, press the menu button to avoid the soft lock.
Angry Birds Star Wars (Facebook Version) Found Partial Hacked to load the intro, main menu and levels, but the game soft locks after you complete Tatooine making Death Star impossible to play. Powerups also don't function yet and the ui is very glitchy.
Angry Birds Breakfast Part 1 Found Yes Downloadable version only.
Angry Birds Breakfast Part 2 Found Yes Downloadable version only.
Angry Birds Breakfast Part 3 Found Yes (Hacked) Discovered by Binaer. Hacked to bypass the login prompt.
Angry Birds Social Partially Lost Yes (Earlier build)

No (Later Build)

Rovio's first attempt at an Angry Birds level editor that ended up being cancelled. Wayback Machine captures of the homepage date as far back as March 2011, implying that it may predate Angry Birds Flash. An earlier build was found however it has a small canvas. You have to stretch the canvas in order to build levels.
Bad Piggies Build Found Partial Rovio's second attempt at an Angry Birds level editor that was once again cancelled. An older build can be accessed here. The quest and sandbox function is broken on the newer build, and the shop function is broken on both builds. The embed of the game was fixed recently to use the levels in the database.
Angry Birds Friends (Flash Version) Found Yes (Embed) Full Game (Hacked) The original version of the game, as newer versions are built with Unity. Two separate scrapes of the game were found by user lolhacksrule on 2 different appspot domains and a embed similar to Ultrabook Adenture was found in the files. The full version was recently hacked by user ultra0 and a flashpoint curation was created for it. The game isn't 100% there as Tournament, Bird O Matic, and Shop are inaccessible and the game is prone to crash often.
Angry Birds POP! (Facebook Version) Lost No A Facebook version of the spinoff game Angry Birds Pop witch was released alongside the mobile version. A appspot link was discovered for it but it didn't contain the game rather a image saying the game was shut down and the game will continue on mobile. It's unknown where the assets are.
Angry Birds Flash Lost No A tech demo showcased at Adobe Max 2011 which served as the basis for Angry Birds Friends and all other Flash-based Angry Birds titles. The opening animation can be found among the assets for Angry Birds in Ultrabook Adventure.[4]
Angry Birds Google+ Lost No Closed along with the Google+ Gaming Service. Some of its assets can be found in other HTML5-based Angry Birds games.
Angry Birds McDonald's Found Yes (Hacked) Discovered by Twitter user @Reubenmations. Hacked by IGTBAP and Door257 to bypass the login so all levels are playable though there are a few weird glitches that can happen like accessing the credits level after you beat all the main levels in the game.
Angry Birds Coca-Cola Found Yes (Hacked) Found by Twitter user @Reubenmations. Hacked to bypass the login. The game will soft lock if you select the next level after you beat all the main levels in the coca cola episode or poached eggs. Select the menu button to avoid the soft lock.
Angry Birds Advent Challenge Lost No Originally hosted at note.angrybirds.com.
Angry Birds Skills Lost No UK-based game. Hosted at http://angrybirds.fruitshoot.com.
Angry Birds Radox Found Yes A playable ad for Radox Body Lotion.
Angry Birds POP 2 (Playable Ad) Found Yes A playable ad made to promote Angry Birds POP 2.
Starburst + Angry Birds Playable Ad Found Yes A playable ad for Starburst. Was originally hosted on TreSensa.
Angry Birds Opera Existence Unconfirmed No Likely originally hosted at opera.angrybirds.com. It was never released to the public. The image is likely a mockup.
Angry Birds Hot Wheels Smashup Existence Unconfirmed No A concept of this unreleased playable ad appeared on Mike Rodda's portfolio. It's unknown if it was ever made.

Gallery

Videos

EmbedVideo is missing a required parameter.

Footage

EmbedVideo is missing a required parameter.
EmbedVideo is missing a required parameter.
EmbedVideo is missing a required parameter.

External Links

References