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{{Short description|1986 video game}}
{{Infobox VGvideo game
|title= Bird Week
|image= [[File:BirdWeekJPBoxShotforNES.jpg|frameless|Bird Week]]
|caption=
|developer= [[Lenar]]
|publisher= [[EMI Music Japan|Toshiba EMI]]
|released= {{vgrelease|JP=|June 3, 1986<ref name="birdweek">{{cite web | url = http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/nes/data/578297.html| title = Release information | publisher = [[GameFAQs]]| date = | accessdate = 2008-08-15}}</ref>}}
|genre= [[Life simulation game|Life simulation]] <br> [[Action game|Action]]
|modes= [[Single-player video game|Single-player]]
|platforms= [[Nintendo Entertainment System|Family Computer]]
|media= 2-[[megabit]] [[ROM cartridge|cartridge]]
}}
 
{{nihongo|'''''Bird Week'''''|バード・ウィーク|Bādo Uīku}} is a single-player [[life simulationAction game|life simulationaction]] video game released for the Nintendo [[Nintendo Entertainment System|Family Computer]]. <ref name="superfamicom">{{cite web | url = http://superfamicom.org/famicom/info/bird-week| title = Graphics and sound overview | publisher = SuperFamicom.org| date = | accessdate = 2011-11-03}}</ref>
 
==Gameplay==
[[Image:Birdweek.png|200px|left|thumb|Mother bird is looking for butterflies to feed her baby birds with.]]
The player plays as a bird and can either play the normal game or the single level practice game. The player must feed [[Butterfly|butterflies]] to the baby birds so that they can grow big and eventually leave the [[bird nest|nest]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mobygames.com/game/bird-week Bird Week|title=Basic information|publisher=[[MobyGames]]|date=|accessdate=2008-08-15}}</ref> 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.<ref name="25atwikijp">{{cite web|url=http://www25.atwiki.jp/famicomall/pages/365.html|title=Ending/advanced gameplay information |language=Japanese|publisher=FC no Game Seiha Shimasho|date=|accessdate=2012-12-17}}</ref>▼
 
▲The player plays as a bird and can either play the normal game or the single level practice game. The player must feed [[Butterfly|butterflies]] to the baby birds so that they can grow big and eventually leave the [[bird nest|nest]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mobygames.com/game/bird-week |title=Bird Week|title= Basic information|publisher=[[MobyGames]]|date=|accessdate=2008-08-15}}</ref> ItThe isgame suggestedhas thatno theyend eventuallysequence: becomebeyond thelevel "new999, motherit birds"simply that take care of their offspring in the subsequentrepeats levels. Finishing all 999 levels of ''Bird Week'' actually results inuntil the beginning of an endless loop instead that ends when the playersplayer loses all of histheir lives.<ref name="25atwikijp">{{cite web|url=http://www25.atwiki.jp/famicomall/pages/365.html|title=Ending/advanced gameplay information |language=Japanese|publisher=FC no Game Seiha Shimasho |date=3 April 2009|accessdate=2012-12-17|language=ja}}</ref>
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 repeats itself by portraying the following spring. If the proper amount of butterflies are not fed to the babies, then the babies end up starving to death.<ref name="25atwikijp"/> The player will automatically lose a life if any of the baby birds die. In addition to this, the player also loses a life when a [[Predation|predator]] catches the player trying to deliver butterflies to whose baby.<ref name="honestgamers">{{cite web|url=http://www.honestgamers.com/systems/guide.php?guide_id=4936&platform=NES&abr=NES&gametitle=Bird+Week|title=Advanced information|publisher=HonestGamers|date=|accessdate=2008-08-15}}</ref>
 
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.<ref name="25atwikijp"/> The player loses a life by failing to feed a baby bird, or by being caught by predators and other obstacles.
==Cultural influences==
In 2010, ''Healthy Option Dane'', a jazz-influenced band from [[Burlington, Vermont]], released a ''Bird Week''-themed live performance music video. Footage from the game is included in the video. <ref>[http://www.vimeo.com/11060464 "Bird Week" music video]. [[Vimeo]] </ref>
 
==References==
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==External links==
* {{StrategyWiki}}
* [http://www.giantbomb.com/bird-week/61-18708/promotional-flyer/52-8054/ ''Bird Week'' promotional flyer] at [[Giant Bomb]]
* [http://www.vimeo.com/11060464/ ''Bird Week'' Music Video] - Healthy Option Dane's "Bird Week" Music Video
 
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