Bejeweled: Deluxe

aka: Bejeweled, Diamond Mine
Moby ID: 5095

Trivia

Gameplay

The gameplay mechanics behind Bejeweled seem heavily inspired by a freeware DOS game called Shariki, created by a Russian student named Yevgeny Alemzhin at Kemerovo University. Although the game is strikingly similar (same rules, same grid size) Alemzhin was never formally credited by either PopCap or King.com.

Sales

Bejeweled has consistently been the most popular game on Microsoft's Gaming Zone for 2001, averaging about 18,000 players at any given time.

As of August 2008, Bejeweled and Bejeweled 2 had sold 25 million units since its launch in 2000. At the same time 350 million copies of the trial version had been downloaded.

Awards

  • Computer Gaming World
    • April 2002 (Issue #213) – Puzzle/Classics Game of the Year
    • May 2005 (Issue #251) – Introduced into the Hall of Fame
  • The Strong National Museum of Play
    • 2020 – Introduced into the World Video Game Hall of Fame

Information also contributed by Entorphane and Kabusi

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Trivia contributed by Kurt Sample, Sciere, BdR, Patrick Bregger, SoMuchChaotix.