

It has since made an appearance on almost every format much like its counterpart Bookworm.Īnd that’s because it is basically just more of the same but bigger and better – just as a sequel should be. Similar to Tetris, it was spread virally via PCs but, this time, instead of a diskette, the web served as the access point for the game.

Zuma is a matching-tile puzzle game involving a snaking board but, overall, the same mechanics as the vertically-stacked variants that make up the majority of this genre.Ĭoming out before Puzzle Quest, Zuma introduced a lot of people to the matching-tile puzzler and became a bit of a sensation in its own right just like Tetris. This was probably the dilemma that faced PopCap Games when they sat down to come up with a sequel to Zuma, one of the early 2000s most iconic games one of the biggest web-based games of that era as well.
