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In 2020, Bejeweled was inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame. By 2013, PopCap estimates that over 10 billion hours of the game had been played on over 500 million downloaded copies. Collectively known as match three games, these games revolve around the mechanics of creating three-in-a-row combinations of identical pieces.īejeweled is often considered an important part of the match-3 genre. The popularity of Bejeweled has spawned several clones. A native application for the iPhone has since been made available for purchase in the iTunes store, although the web-based version still exists.īejeweled was influenced by the game Shariki, written in 1988 by Russian developer Eugene Alemzhin, which had nearly identical gameplay. PopCap Games initially announced a version of Bejeweled for the iPhone that was not a standalone game, but rather a web application playable over the Safari browser. It was released as one of the first games downloadable from the iTunes Store for the iPod in September 2006. They also released Bejeweled Deluxe on the Xbox as a downloadable Xbox Live Arcade game.

Astraware produced versions for PDAs on the BlackBerry, iPhone, Palm and Windows Mobile smartphone platforms. The game has been ported to other platforms, including Microsoft Windows, where it was called Bejeweled Deluxe. The name Bejeweled was suggested by Microsoft, who thought the original name Diamond Mine was too similar to that of an existing game, Diamond Mines. PopCap created partnerships with established Internet gaming sites, such as Microsoft Zone, to host Bejeweled as well. An arcade version was released in Q3 2013.īejeweled was initially created by PopCap Games as a web-based Flash game named Diamond Mine. The figure includes the original game, plus the Blitz and Twist versions. By February 2010, Bejeweled sales hit 50 million. More than 10 million copies of Bejeweled have been sold, and the game has been downloaded more than 350 million times. Bejeweled was released initially for browsers in 2001, followed by seven sequels: Bejeweled 2 (2004), Bejeweled Twist (2008), Bejeweled Blitz (2009), Bejeweled 3 (2010), Bejeweled Legend (2012, in Japan only) Bejeweled Stars (2016), and Bejeweled Champions (2020) all by PopCap Games and its parent, Electronic Arts.

Bejeweled Twist, Bejeweled Blitz, Bejeweled Starsīejeweled is a series of tile-matching puzzle video games created by PopCap Games.

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