Birds On A Wire is a color matching game with small cartoon birds. The
player controls a stationary cannon at the bottom of the screen, loaded with a
bird and showing the next one on a small round window. The objective is to
shoot the birds towards other fowl of the same color, matching three or more
to make them explode and disappear in a cloud of feathers. Most of the screen
is occupied by a long piece of wire, twisting form the top to the bottom
towards the gaping mouth of a statue. A line of multicolored birds keeps
marching on the wire, and if several fall inside the hole the game is over.

Golden coins appear around the gamefield, and can be collected by hitting them
with a bird. After shooting 20 coins, the player receives an extra life. The
birds can bounce from the surrounding walls, and their elasticity can be used
as a strategy to hit obscured places on the line. Some of the animals have an
icon of a power-up, activated once they are matched. The powers are the
standard ones from the genre, they stop the birds for a few seconds, make them
move backwards, slow their movement, create a targeting line for the cannon,
eliminate all birds of one specific color and perform other similar helpful
actions.

The game has three modes. In adventure mode, the player moves from levels with
different background scenes and challenges. In action mode, the goal of each
level is to destroy a set amount of birds as fast as possible. In arcade mode,
the birds move downwards and the goal is to clear the screen of them.

Birds on a Wire