Why did Atari decide to (re)publish Tumblebugs is beyond me, but I would be lying if I said I didn’t have a lot of fun with this simple but charming Zuma clone. They haven’t had any participation related to the first HD re-release, either. They weren’t responsible for the original version’s financing or publishing. A mere week after the release of the surprisingly decent indie puzzler Kombinera, the publisher is at it again with the re-release of a game they have never had any relation towards. To make matters weirder, Atari is the one behind its publishing. Yet, we are now getting another remaster (I think?) of the same game, now solely named Tumblebugs. Nearly a decade and a half later, in 2018, the game actually got an official HD treatment, named Tumblebugs HD, with every remastered trinket you’d expect: performance and visual enhancements, the whole nine yards. It was the competitor (read it: clone) to Zuma the console needed, at a really affordable price. Tumblebugs was originally released back in 2005 for personal computers, but it was its WiiWare re-release a few years later that made the biggest splash. This might actually be one of the weirdest instances of a release of a remaster of an old game I have ever seen.
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