The Criminal Origin of Suika Game
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Suika Game (or Watermelon Game if you prefer) might look adorable, but there's a surprising criminal backstory to this cutesy puzzle game.
The version that has been tearing up the Nintendo eShop, which is also coming to mobile app stores, may be the version of the game that players in the West are most familiar with. This, though, is not the original Watermelon game, but rather a clone of an older title that once took the Chinese-speaking internet by storm.
There was just one problem with this earlier version of the game: Synthetic Watermelon (as its name directly translates) became mired in controversy among accusations of theft and fraud. Apparently, a small advert in the corner of the screen enticed millions of people into paying for what they thought was a small prize token; in reality (or so the accusations claim) they were duped, and their money and personal details were collected without the promised payout.
This video was meant to release in the first week of January, back when it was a) a little more timely, and b) filling a gap before 2024 in gaming kicked off in earnest and we had more high-profile topics to cover. As is happens, sometimes it takes us well over a month to make a five minute video. This is because of:
1. Day job work commitments,
2. Childcare needs, and
3. Oh yeah, our daughter spent a week in hospital with COVID-19. That was fun.
The moral of that story: wash your hands, people. It's weird that we live in a world where basic personal hygeine has become politicised.
Lots of love,
BretonStripes and Kotor (and two children of varying levels of health, seriously all I'm asking is that you wash your dirty hands!)
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Suika Game is just 2048 with gravity and circle physics.
Ironically, 2048 was _also_ adapted from a game called Threes which hadn't gone viral in quite the same way.
Yeah
2048 is a clone of 1024 which is a clone of Threes, which is why 2048 is free and open source
Funnily enough some company already made an 2048 Tetris hybrid in 2017
Don't forget the Doctor Who game Thirteen, which needs an update.@@IDKisReal2401
'You can't copyright game mechanics.'
Well no, but you can patent them.
which is mentioned in the
video
I love the disgusted sigh at Twitter's name change at 2:10
Even when it looks evil, it’s still kinda cute.
"Suica Game cloned a 419 scam" is not the story I expected
Makes Palworld look like The Judicial System’s favorite child
Finally! I waited ages for this!!
Thanks for covering this! Wow!
I was introduced to this game a few days ago, and I like playing it
What a crazy back story about the funny fruit game, I had no idea! Thanks for another great lesson~
If ya want a good version, Suika Combination is available online and on mobile, made by a good friend of mine. You can headpat the Touhou characters~
The funny watermelon.
This is quite interesting! New sub!
Ah yes, silica game my favorite
Btw there is a watermelon game like this on coolmathgames
Uh Oh
Thanks for the vid
A lot of games nowadays are cop cat games because no idea is original. Any idea you come up with for a video game has and will have been done before
It's one thing to copy the entire mechanic and another to use it and yet still give it a unique identity. Let's look at genres, there's platformers, right? All of them have platforms you can jump on, yet they don't all have the exact same character, animation, platform, or even the world. You can have the same idea and still execute it differently.
@@MusicComet i’m not personally defending this game itself. This is a complete copy. I’m making a example for Games like pal world for partner monsters or animals even though there’s hundreds of games with that aspect and people getting mad about it
@@MusicComet I do 100% agree with you
@@aaww1010 Was kind of thinking of Palworld too. Actually torn on that one because it's original in some areas and then just straight up an amalgamation of other things in others. Like Verdash is just a grass Cinderace, but they can make original things like Cattiva and Gobfin, I have no idea why they couldn't just do that for everything since they clearly know how to.
copies are ok if they're better than the original.
You cant copyright what doesnt exist.
Finally!
Interesting
hey you should make a video about undertale yellow
Gaming sadness.
A con artists already tricked the audience by self act like game director.
Hey, Video Game Story Time. Can you guys do a video on the upcoming PlayStation 5 game, Stellar Blade, developed by South Korean based company Shift Up. Also, explain how gamers were obsessed over the main female protagonist Eve and how it destroys the woke agenda.