10 Jaw-Dropping Video Game Success Stories You Need To Hear

10. Flappy Bird

It's one thing to have a random hit, and another entirely to create such a fiendishly-addictive 'masterpiece' (depending on what you look for) that causes people to badger you with constant death threats to restore the game after it's been pulled from stores.

Such was the life for Dong Nguyen, creator of Flappy Bird, and also the guy who took down his own game right in the middle of earning around $50,000 a day in ad-revenue.

Why? Because he saw people were genuinely becoming obsessed with his creation, prompting all sorts of questions around the very nature of game design, and how by reverting a title back to such a basic premise (navigating a character through a set of obstacles) can ensnare almost everyone to hitting the retry button more than once.

Nguyen eventually restored the game to the likes of the iTunes and Google's Play Store, but not before people were selling their phones with the original version on eBay for upwards of £150,000 (yes, really).