If you’ve never played Angry Birds, you should. An online game or more popularly an app for new handheld devices that is as entertaining as it is addictive. The history of Angry Birds is not important to most of us. How to get it and how to conquer it is. Wildly popular with somewhere around 50 million downloads the game stars of course birds angry that pigs stole their eggs. The pigs hide in different structures as the birds slingshot themselves at the pigs trying to destroy the structure and the pigs in it. Destroying the structures and pigs earns points and awards the next level of play.
I can’t remember how many levels there are but there’s a lot. So what happens if you actually ever conquer all levels? OK here it is, so this Sunday during the 4th quarter of the other game (football) the publisher will reveal in an Angry Birds ad an access code that allows the player to go further into the game by unlocking a bonus level. So while the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers go at it for the Super Bowl 2011 Vince Lombardi trophy millions of people will be anxiously waiting for…..the Angry Birds. Another stroke of genius for the NFL. Heck I’m anxious just to see the commercial. I don’t think I’ll ever get to the point that I’d need the code. I like the game (and Super Sunday). It’s fun when you’re bored, but I’m rarely bored. I try to avoid it.
