1986 · Lenar · Platformer · Simulation

Bird Week

Nintendo exclusive

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.

Released: 3 June 1986
Platforms: NES
Genres: Platformer Simulation
Developers: Lenar
Publishers: EMI Music Japan
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Side view
Themes: Action
Country: Japan
Age ratings: CLASS_IND L
Languages: Japanese

About

Bird Week (バード・ウィーク, Bādo Uīku) is a single-player action video game released for the Nintendo Family Computer.

Keywords

bird
fox
squirrel

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

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 and eventually leave the nest. The game has no end sequence: beyond level 999, it simply repeats levels until the player loses all of their lives.

Each level represents a different season of the year, beginning in early spring and then progressing through summer and autumn before repeating to the following spring. If the proper number of butterflies are not fed to the babies, then the babies end up starving to death. The player loses a life by failing to feed a baby bird, or by being caught by predators and other obstacles.