EA stole this man's game and made millions

Channel:
United Kingdom Thomas Game Docs
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608,000
Published on ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPBlnyM9IMc


Game:
Zuma (2003)
Duration: 12:56
3,479,594 views
101,342

EA is one of the industry's best known developers, but one of their well known games, Zuma, was actually a near-identical copy of a much smaller developer's: Mitchell Corporation's Puzz Loop. Join me to find out exactly how this scandal unfolded!

This video was based on the brilliant book “The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers” by John Szczepaniak, which is available from Amazon via the following links:
- 🇺🇸 https://www.amazon.com/Untold-History-Japanese-Game-Developers-ebook/dp/B00Q93N29I
- 🇬🇧 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Untold-History-Japanese-Game-Developers/dp/0992926025

Rights to the colour photograph of Roy Ozaki are owned by John Szczepaniak.
Rights to the black and white photograph of Roy Ozaki are owned by John Szczepaniak & Nicolas Datiche
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Sources
- “The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers”, John Szczepaniak, p. 154 - 167
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060615105044/http://www.insertcredit.com/features/hitofude/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20071201175106/http://www.digitalartistmanagement.com/newsletter/enews34.html



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EA
Thomas Game Docs
plagiarism
Electronic Arts
Zuma
Lawsuit
Puzz Loop
Mitchell Corportation
Bejewelled
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Other Statistics

Zuma Statistics For Thomas Game Docs

At present, Thomas Game Docs has 3,479,594 views spread across 1 video for Zuma, with his channel publishing less than an hour of Zuma content. This is 1.39% of the total watchable video on Thomas Game Docs's YouTube channel.