A is for Angry Birds!

       When I first got an android cell phone the sales lady told us that we had to download “Angry Birds” if we downloaded nothing else.  I thought to myself, “Ok, I will file away that tidbit for later and try it out!”  It actually was the first game we downloaded and we were not disappointed!   In the movie “101 Dalmatians”,  Roger designed video games for a living.  He had taken his video game in for an expert to try and this pint sized game Einstein informed him he had to have a better villain.  It was necessary for the success of a video game to have a villain that you desperately wanted to take out and annihilate.   It went beyond hatred.  You had to design a character that the player would take great pleasure in blowing to hell.

         I believe the reason “Angry Birds” series is so successful is because anyone and everyone gets their jollies out of dive bombing pi$$ed off birds into evil green pigs.  If you fail to take them all out, the pigs remaining laugh at you in the most sinister of ways.  I don’t know about anyone else, but that evil laugh mocking me sends me right over the edge.  I am ready to try it again.  I get so much pleasure out of killing those evil pigs!!  There are several different versions available.  All of them have basically the same story line.  The pigs show up, steal the birds eggs, the birds discover the treachery, get good and pi$$ed and plot their revenge.  The pigs are set up in each level housed in every shape and size of structure.  The idea of the game is to load your bird into a giant slingshot and shoot it into the structure to take out the pigs.  When not one slimy snickering pig is left standing, you get to move on to the next level filled with more pigs, more structures, and as the game progresses more talented birds. 

          If you psycho analyze the “Angry Birds” premise it gives the player the power and the OK to take out the enemy.  It makes revenge doable and legal. That is a mighty fine thing.  I know I have met several people in my life that I would love to hurl myself at and just beat the living $hit out of.  They have made me that mad.  Unfortunately, beating the $hit out of random a$$holes that pi$$ us off or have wronged us is frowned on in society.  You simply can’t go knock someone off their perch no matter how evil they are or how much they deserve it.  There are always repercussions.  A person learns that as early as kindergarten, and some folks learn it before that.  A person usually doesn’t get paid to be nice, but…playing nice usually pays off in the long run.  Like the evil pigs, some people in life really do deserve what they get.  For those like me that believe what goes around comes around, karma can be a beautiful thing.

      With a game like “Angry Birds” you can enjoy the thrill of taking the law into your own hands and seeking vengeance.  It is only a game, but “Angry Birds” is just satisfying in that way.  It is also addictive.  Since the first installment was released in 2009, we have learned the basics of destruction, went on to play against the backdrops of the seasons, free imprisoned birds in Rio, and now as of March 22, 2012 “Angry Birds” fans like myself can take on evil alien pigs from outer space.  It has been billed as the best physics game in the universe.  It still has the same thrill, and it is only getting better because now birds orbit and defy gravity until next time when I give you another glimpse into the life of a trucker’s wife.