A game enthusiast attempted to bring back the infamous Flappy Bird app through a petition on whitehouse.gov after its maker took it down Sunday CNET reported Saturday.
"Flappy Bird was designed to play in a few minutes when you are relaxed," Dong Nguyen, creator of the app told Forbes at the time of the news. "But it happened to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem. To solve that problem, it's best to take down Flappy Bird. It's gone forever," Nguyen told Forbes. Remarks from Nintendo did not reportedly influence Nguyen's decision Forbes reported.
The app had over 50 million downloads, and earned Nguyen $50,000 a day in income from advertisements.
"Some games can do that. Not all games can do that, but when they do it's wonderful," Frank Lantz director of New York University's Game Center told CNET.
"It's the kind of thing we get from drugs, from meditation, from spiritual rituals," Lantz told CNET. "I found it recently in playing Flappy Bird. For me, one of things that makes it interesting is that it is an extreme example of this experience."
"I want everyone to be able to experience such emotional magnitude," the creator of the petition said in a statement The State Column reported.
The petition is no longer on the White House website. It had 11 signatures, Friday, of the 100,000 necessary by March 15 according to The State Column,
Flappy Bird came out May 24, 2013 on iOS at no cost.
"I don't think it's a mistake," Nguyen told Forbes."I have thought it through. After the success of Flappy Bird, I feel more confident, and I have freedom to do what I want to do."
Nguyen also has other games that are popular in the app store such as Super Ball Juggling and Shuriken Block Forbes reported.
