Flappy Bird is this generations’ game that just won’t go away and it seems everyone has to release their take on it.  During the 16-Bit era it was fighting games, 32-Bit it was 3D fighting games and 3D action platform titles.  In today’s mobile market it is Flappy Bird.  Flappy freaking Bird.  A simple reactionary title that requires you to literally use one button to play.  Not require, that is not a good word, no, Flappy Bird and its clones only allow one button to be used.  The screen automatically scrolls and you simply tap the button to make your bird, block, and ship, or whatever, go up and then the illusion of gravity brings it back down.  You are required to avoid an obstacle that approaches from the right side of the screen.  Simple.

Gaudream is one of the first Flappy Bird clones to hit the Sega Master System.  I say one because as I was researching Gaudream, I found another more traditional Flappy Bird clone but Gaudream at least is “interesting” if I could use that word loosely here.

The gameplay of Gaudream is harder than it really needs to be.  Hitting the action button barely gets your iguana looking guy to climb the screen.  I figure you are in the water and swimming with a water current of some sort.  Scrolling across the screen is what looks like totems of some sort.  Hitting the top or bottom of the screen, or a totem, and you lose a life.  This is usual trappings for a Flappy Bird clone, nothing new here.  Gaudream seems to move really fast, faster than most Flappy Bird clones do.

It is interesting to note that Gaudream is not completed.  This version is sitting at 0.03 and when finished, the source code will be made freely available.  Kusfo of the Fase Bonus forums entered Gaudreamto the SMS Power 2015 contest.

Download Gaudream from the SMS Power website.

Source: Fase Bonus forums

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