The addictive “Flappy Bird” mobile game, created by a Vietnamese app developer, is being showcased as an influential innovation at one of the world’s greatest museums of art and design.

Coded in a weekend by Hanoi-based programmer and game designer Nguyen Ha Dong, “Flappy Bird” is currently displayed in Victoria and Albert Museum’s “Rapid Response Collecting” section in London, according to Vietnamplus.

The museum was established in 1852, following the resounding success of the Great Exhibition the previous year, according to its website.

The museum relocated to its present site in 1857.

In 1899, Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone of a new building designed to give the museum a grand façade and main entrance.

The establishment was renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum to mark the occasion and dedicate to Prince Albert for his enthusiastic support for its foundation.

The Victoria and Albert Museum's collections span two thousand years of art in almost every medium and from many parts of the world.

One of its latest additions, “Rapid Response Collecting” section, is designed to introduce influential designs or innovations in the contemporary world which can impact the art and architecture areas.

On display are two smartphones installed with the “Flappy Bird” mobile game along with other innovations.

The game and its creator are briefly yet fully introduced on an A4 page.

Dong released “Flappy Bird” on May 24, 2013 as a free-to-download mobile phone app.

“Flappy Bird was slow to gain popularity, but thanks to its addictive game mechanic it soon became a viral sensation,” the museum’s introduction reads.

By January 2014, "Flappy Bird" had topped the App Store and Google Play charts with in-app advertising revenue estimated at US$50,000 per day, the museum’s introduction added.

The game acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum is in the Android Package File format which is a packaged, portable program with a defined infrastructure designed for Android smartphones.

The artifacts are exhibited in the museum’s “Rapid Response Collecting” section until January 31, 2016 before being replaced by other designs or innovations.

The museum also displays Vietnamese porcelain antiques, which date back to the 13th and 15th centuries, in other sections.

The Vietnamese collectibles are numbered and comprehensively annotated.

“Flappy Bird” received a sudden rise in popularity in early 2014.

The objective of the game was to direct a flying bird, named "Faby," which moves continuously to the right between sets of Mario-like pipes.

If the player touches the pipes, the game ends.

The bird briefly flaps upward each time the player taps the screen; if the screen is not tapped, the bird falls due to gravity.

At the end of January 2014, it was the most downloaded free game on the App Store.

"Flappy Bird" was removed from both the App Store and Google Play by its creator on February 10, 2014, due to guilt over what he considered to be its addictive nature and overuse.

In August, Dong resurrected the game and renamed it "Flappy Birds Family." But it is only available for download from the Android app store and can be played merely on Amazon Fire TV, which is a digital media player that allows users to play video games with the included remote, through a mobile app, or with a game controller.

Later that same month the developer introduced "Swing Copters," considered another "Flappy Bird" sequel. The new game was expected to be Dong’s second hit of 2014, but it failed to find fame. In mid-December last year, Dong was listed among 10 Internet millionaires who made fortunes out of thin air by entertainment news site The Richest.

The programmer, also known by his Twitter name as Dong Nguyen, stood in ninth place on the list of ten individuals who earned fame and fortunes via the Internet and now “walk the Earth like kings.”

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