No one has done this yet but I'm declaring Angry Birds the very first big breakout iPhone game.
So what do I mean by breakout game? Well a title that started life exclusively on a platform that becomes so popular it is known by users of other systems, it gets ported to those systems and is just as popular on them to. Plus it has lots of spin offs to, like toys and cartoons etc.
Angry Birds is that game on the iPhone. Since it's release it has become massive. So massive that Microsoft felt when launching Windows Mobile 7 they had to show in advertising that they too would have Angry Birds available for it (later to be withdrawn when pointed out by the developer it wouldn't be).
You can buy Angry Bird plush toys, fans have made cakes, there are plans for a cartoon, and there is even going to be a world wide Angry Birds day on the 11th December.
No other iPhone game has managed to capture the imaginations of others like this.
In fact we could be witnessing the birth of a new classic character following in the footsteps of other greats like Mario, Pacman etc.
Yes I think Angry Birds has become that big and popular already.
Now I don't know much if anything about the developer Rovio. But I love the fact that a small developer (I'm assuming they are compared to EA etc) has come up with such a massive hit, while the likes of EA, Capcom, Activision etc are struggling to make an impact on the mobile platforms.
Well done Rovio, thanks for a great game and you deserve the success.
-- Could be remote blogging or just too lazy to fire up laptop/Macbook/netbook. But still this has been posted from my iPhone 4.
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