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Bird Week

The player plays as a bird and can either play the normal game or the single level practice game. The player must feed butterflies to the baby birds so that they can grow big and eventually leave the nest. It…

3 June 1986

Bird Week is a simulator developed by Lenar, released 3 June 1986 on Family Computer.

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What Bird Week is

Bird Week is a simulator game developed by Lenar and released in 1986. It was published by Toshiba EMI. It is available on Family Computer only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The player plays as a bird and can either play the normal game or the single level practice game. The player must feed butterflies to the baby birds so that they can grow big and eventually leave the nest. It is suggested that they eventually become the "new mother birds" that take care of their offspring in the subsequent levels. Finishing all 999 levels of Bird Week actually results in the beginning of an endless loop instead that ends when the players loses all of his lives. Each level represents a season in the ecosystem of a bird. The game starts out in early spring. As the virtual year progresses, the season evolves into summer and eventually into autumn. After autumn, the game…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

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When did Bird Week come out?
Bird Week was released on 3 June 1986 for Family Computer.

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