Rapscallion
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I recently saw a television ad for Bubble Witch Saga. The game, as far as I know, is a standard bubble shooter in which you match bubbles of the same color to clear the screen.
It's a clear Puzzle Bubble clone, but with a different theme and less appealing graphics. I actually witnessed a friend of mine playing the game, so I decided to ask them if they by chance had heard of the original Puzzle Bubble/Bust-A-Move. They had not.
Evidently, it's a pretty popular game; I've seen multiple people play the game, and according to sites that track mobile games' revenues it's doing pretty well for the developers. This of course isn't the first time a franchise has been blatantly ripped off, and not even the first time this specific developer had success with a clone; Candy Crush Saga is infamously a more popular Bejeweled clone. Nor is this the only bubble pop clone that is potentially more popular than Puzzle Bobble.
So it got me thinking, what other games out there are clones of a less popular franchise? Are there some clones so popular that the original source games are almost completely unknown?
It's a clear Puzzle Bubble clone, but with a different theme and less appealing graphics. I actually witnessed a friend of mine playing the game, so I decided to ask them if they by chance had heard of the original Puzzle Bubble/Bust-A-Move. They had not.
Evidently, it's a pretty popular game; I've seen multiple people play the game, and according to sites that track mobile games' revenues it's doing pretty well for the developers. This of course isn't the first time a franchise has been blatantly ripped off, and not even the first time this specific developer had success with a clone; Candy Crush Saga is infamously a more popular Bejeweled clone. Nor is this the only bubble pop clone that is potentially more popular than Puzzle Bobble.
So it got me thinking, what other games out there are clones of a less popular franchise? Are there some clones so popular that the original source games are almost completely unknown?