Bird Week: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox VGvideo game

|image= [[File:BirdWeekJPBoxShotforNES.jpg|frameless|Bird Week]]

|developer= [[Lenar]]

|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]]

|platforms= [[Nintendo Entertainment System|Family Computer]]

{{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>

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=Bird Week 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 |publisher=FC no Game Seiha Shimasho |date=3 April 2009|accessdate=2012-12-17|language=ja}}</ref>

Each level represents a different season inof the [[ecosystem]] of a bird. The game startsyear, outbeginning in early spring. Asand thethen virtualprogressing year progresses, the season evolves intothrough summer and eventually into autumn. Afterbefore autumn,repeating the game repeats itself by portrayingto the following spring. If the proper amountnumber of butterflies are not fed to the babies, then the babies end up starving to death.<ref name="25atwikijp"/> The player will automatically loseloses a life ifby any of the baby birds die. In additionfailing to this, the player also losesfeed a lifebaby whenbird, aor [[Predation|predator]]by catchesbeing thecaught playerby tryingpredators toand deliverother butterflies to whose babyobstacles.<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>

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[[Category:Video games featuringabout female protagonistsbirds]]