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=The removal of the classic Angry Birds games= Angry Birds is a long-running mobile game franchise created by Rovio Entertainment in 2009. It then became a giant success gaining sequels, series, movies, and even theme parks. Unfortunately, all the games released before Angry Birds Transformers except for Angry Birds Friends were removed from the app stores in 2019.

Background
Early in 2019, the original Angry Birds game was removed in April 2019 though it was later added back with an update.

Fans thought the games would stay on the app stores and receive more updates until in August 2019, they removed the original Angry Birds ( No, we ain't joking ), Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Space, Bad Piggies, Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Star Wars, and Angry Birds Star Wars II for unknown reasons, with the latter three due to an expired license. It doesn't help that those were all considered some of the best Angry Birds games and that those games were successful enough to get ports to consoles and PCs, meaning that these games won't be lost to time thankfully (not all levels ever made for these games will be included, keep that in mind).

Rovio's excuse for removing their old games was "for testing purposes", without clearly explaining what the testing was. Before 2021, they were saying that they removed the old games because they just don't want to update them to work on modern mobile devices, when there are games that haven't been updated in over 5 years that still work on new mobile devices, such as BuddyPoke and Where's My Water.

Luckily in 2020, Bad Piggies returned but was unfortunately filled to the very top with ads just like every other pre-movie game.

Thankfully, Rovio announced the comeback of the original Angry Birds games starting with the original Angry Birds which was remade as Rovio Classics: Angry Birds released on March 31, 2022.