Talk:Snood (video game)

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I think this article was originally (poorly) paraphrased from this copyright review. Unaware of that, I edited and rephrased it. What is the legal status of the article now? It is not the same as the atpm review, but it is still remarkably similar, and it is clearly (in my mind) a derivative work. Anyone? -- Tlotoxl 13:22, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Keep rewording it until there's no discernible similarity. ;) VfD is getting far too full up these days... -- Oliver P. 13:39, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Okay, this might be because my brain is dead, but I can't discern very much similarity anyway. So I think it looks all right as it is. Maybe this needs a second opinion, though... -- Oliver P. 13:42, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I like the changes you made. It looks better than I originally wrote it. ZeWrestler 10:05, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Should there be a note explaining that many who believe that the similarity to Puzzle Bobble is not a coincidence.

Contents 1 Bloat and Bias? 2 Puzzle Bobble 3 italics 4 External Links? 5 nags

[edit] Bloat and Bias?

The entry for Snood goes into far greater detail than is really necessary (and indeed more that other Bust-A-Move clones), citing such things as gamers' reactions to the game. I believe it aught to be slimmed down to include information only immediately relevent to the game itself, and perhaps a few tidbits of trivia. That of course, brings me to my second point. This entry is worded in such a way that it paints Snood in a very positive light, while using the ever-so-dreadful weasle wording to skirt any possibly negative aspect of the game and failing to draw any comparisons to the quality and polish of any other Bust-A-Move clone. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 150.254.181.174 (talk • contribs).

[edit] Puzzle Bobble

So Snood came after Puzzle Bobble, right? this page on snood.com says that "[Dobson] released the first non-beta version of Snood on February 18, 1999." But then it goes on to say this was version 2.1 and it sounds like it was the first DOS version that was released in 1999 and Mac versions predated that. Still, that is 5 years after Puzzle Bobble, so I would guess Snood came after. Anyone know for sure? Does anyone know what the original release of Snood was?

Also, what is the difference between Puzzle Bobble and Snood, besides graphics? If I remember right, the only difference is the danger bar vs. timer. But I haven't played Snood for a while. --Daev 05:03, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

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Daev, I checked GameFAQs and the earliest version of Snood I could find was for the Mac in 1996. Much closer in release to PB than I originally though, which makes me wonder if they both didn't take the idea from somewhere else. - Nickoten

The original release of Puzzle Bobble was in 1994.. two years is plenty of time to code a knockoff. -- Distraction 20:30, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Mr. Dobson clarifies that Snood was inspired by Puzzle Bobble here Mrfun 02:19, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

What's the legal status of Snood then? —Tokek 13:30, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] italics

does every occurance of the word Snood have to be italicised? -nsh

[edit] External Links?

I tried to google some fan sites or anything that would list some good game numbers and got zilch. I just can't believe that such a popular game is so poorly represented on the net. Anyone know some good sites for an external links section?
P.S. Say 'hell yeah' if you agree that snood gamers reach a skill limit pretty fast and spend the rest of their lives waiting for that one snood - half the screen falls down game. And that does not a good game make... -- Bahati 13:12, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

All "real" players are spending all their time playing it instead of making sites about it. ;) Actually, I think it's just such a low-key game, and the people who play it are not always the most tech-savvy. It's not such a difficult game that it needs strategy guides, etc printed for it either. Me, I spend all my time playing it's little brother Snoodoku now... -- RevRagnarok 11:29, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] nags

Should there be mention of the Burma Shave style nagsreens? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.2.40.144 (talk • contribs).

Well, it is shareware and IIRC it is fully featured otherwise (I don't remember because I bought it around 1995). — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 00:28, 24 January 2007 (UTC)