Club Benefits
Much to my colleague’s amusement, I am notorious for my lack of knowledge when it comes to all things gaming. If you excuse the dance mat phase on my younger brother’s PlayStation in my teenage years, I can hand on heart say, I’ve never so much as picked up a controller, let alone attempted to play any kind of game.
That is, until I was browsing the popular Garmin apps on the ConnectIQ store, and saw the $2 Flappy Bird game. Intrigued, I pressed download, and within minutes, I was hooked on this utterly pointless but fun game. After a few days, I’m still no better and still have an embarrassingly low high score, but if you’re the kind of person who enjoys playing games on your phone, this is a cheap and cheerful download worth making.
If you haven’t played, it’s pretty simple — you press up and down to get the bird to fly between green poles. If you hit a pole, you’re out. I used the game on my Garmin Venu 4, which has an AMOLED touchscreen, but if you’re on a different model, you can use the buttons on your Garmin watch itself.
How to download Flappy Bird
To download the app, you’ll need to have the ConnectIQ app installed on your phone — this is where you can add apps to your Garmin watch, or download a Garmin watch face. If you are looking for a new face, here are the five Garmin watch faces resident Garmin expert, Nick Harris-Fry, always downloads.
You have to pay for this app, so you’ll need to sync a credit card to Garmin Pay if you haven’t already. Once you have, simply click buy, and you can download the app to your watch if it’s compatible — most of the newer watches are, including the newer Forerunners, Fenix, and Epix lines.
Once you’ve downloaded the app once, you’ll be able to add it to a second Garmin device in the future if you do choose to upgrade your watch.
For $2, you can’t really go wrong here; just don’t blame me when you miss your stop on the subway.
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