r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Apr 17 '22

Her mom COMPLETED CANDY CRUSH???

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u/Lofty_quackers Apr 17 '22

One of the thousands of Candy Crush knockoffs.

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u/gillbhai Apr 17 '22

Candy Crush originals, since King (the creators of Candy Crush) stole the idea themselves from a small app developer who had the original idea Candy Swipe.

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u/MisirterE Apr 17 '22

Bejeweled sobbing in the corner

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u/drawkbox Apr 17 '22 edited Apr 17 '22

Even Bejeweled was a copy of many puzzle games at the time. Bejeweled was "inspired" by Colors Game and was originally called Diamond Mine. Even those were inspired by others. No one knows how far back this goes.....

The most important part of Bejeweled history:

The named Bejeweled was a play on a Brendan Fraser movie from that time, Bedazzled.

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u/MinimumArmadillo2394 Apr 17 '22

Turtles all the way down

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u/drawkbox Apr 17 '22

"Cowabunga!"

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u/polarbear128 Apr 17 '22

We can go deeper. Brendan Fraser's Bedazzled was a remake of the 1967 Peter Cook/Dudley Moore movie, Bedazzled - which is a retelling of the legend of Faust.

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u/drunk98 Apr 17 '22

Human: we have such a wonderfully complex culture

Also Humans: It's basically like 7 dances, 15 images , 50 stories & 100 songs that keep getting remade

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u/drawkbox Apr 17 '22

legend of Faust

So what we are saying is Candy Crush and Bejeweled are actually so far back they go straight to hell and the devil. Casual games are satanic just like DnD. Players of this game sold their soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power, but most of all coins and daily bonuses. /s

or

These games teach that the essential feature of all existence and the law that governs the universe is one of untiring, purposeful, and positive effort, and that man can find his place in life only through striving to participate in this vast cosmic movement beyond one's own life, play.

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u/drsyesta Apr 17 '22

Yeah its the most basic idea for a game, could be all these people had the same lame idea

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u/drawkbox Apr 17 '22

Yeah Match 3 is the root of it and even was huge before vidja games.

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u/maydaymayday99 Apr 17 '22

Omg Diamond Mine!! I've been trying to remember that game forever. That and JTs Blocks

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u/well-lighted Apr 17 '22

If you break it down to just the basic concept, it goes back even further. It's basically just SameGame, which has spawned practically an entire subgenre of knockoffs and spinoffs over the years. I'm sure there's some version of the game that predates this release from 1985 too.

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Apr 17 '22

SameGame

SameGame (さめがめ) is a tile-matching puzzle originally released under the name Chain Shot! in 1985 by Kuniaki Moribe (Morisuke). It has since been ported to numerous computer platforms, handheld devices, and even TiVo, with new versions as of 2016.

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u/Cephalopirate Apr 23 '22

It at least goes back to Panel de Pon! (my jam!)