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Zuma!

ZumaMade my first purchase on the Xbox Live Marketplace last night. Bought the game Zuma, which is sort of an addictive little puzzle game.

I'd only played it a couple of times before - once on the computer, once on the demo version for Xbox 360 - but I fired it up after buying it for 800 "Microsoft Points" ($10) and ran at it for a little over an hour. Thought I was seriously kicking ass until I saw that I ranked like 20,000th or something. Hmmm.

Jenn played after me. Jenn is a Zuma whore. Her Zuma addiction is not unlike that of a heroin junkie. She did pretty well, better than I did (ranking like 13,000th or something).

So glad I paid $600 for a Zuma 360 - a very expensive, high-definition, Zuma-playing device. I anticipate she'll be on that when I get home, her very soul lost to the chanting demons of the game, eyes blurry, hands aching, just needing one more game.

posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 9:41 AM | Filed Under [ General Ramblings ]

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Gravatar # Re: Zuma!
by jbat1 at 4/19/2006 11:16 AM
That's hilarious.

Same deal at our house. My wife is addicted too. Actually, it's pretty much all she'll play. Every now and then she'll play PGR3, but her game(drug) of choice is Zuma.

I'm up to level 9, and I think I'll be on it for a while, amazingly, my wife is clipping my heels at level 8. In less than 2 weeks, she earned her 24 hours of Zuma achievement.

Yeah, you'll get it soon too, and you'll freak out... "I've played this game for 24 hours? oh crap!"

Glad there's no more time achievements after that.

jbat1
Gravatar # Re: Zuma!
by Stick at 4/21/2006 12:47 PM
Dude,
I want to thank you for this. I got my wife the demo of this for the computer, she absolutely loved it. It is a total TIME SUCK, but keeps her off the internet and Amazon. I let her know that there was a version for the Xbox 360 and she was like &#8220;gotta have&#8221;!!! So, it looks like Sitcky is getting an Xbox 360. Thanks Trav&#8217;
Laters
Gravatar # re: Zuma!
by Big Joe at 1/29/2009 11:54 PM
I NEED HELP! I know I’m a Zuma addict but I can’t face that fact.
It started innocent enough but before long it began to take over my life. The colors of the balls, the frog spinning around, and the sound effects combining into a mesmerizing concoction of pleasure swirling around in my head. The first time I played I reached 2-1 but that wasn’t enough. I had to play again and again and again. I became sleep deprived and started to lose weight, my eyes started to sink into my skull. I have zombie like circles under my sunken eyes. I feel like a monkey in a cocaine experiment that will give up everything even food and sex for just one more fix. It’s so bad that one time at work when we finished a job and everyone was giving high fives, I gave a couple but I would yell INKA ZUMA! Now I have the nick name Zuma at work and I find different colored marbles in my locker next to a rubber frog it’s humiliating to the point where I just want to drop into the fetal position, but I just run out to my car and get a quick fix on my laptop.
My kids are teased at school, and my wife has threatened to divorce me. Damn you Zuma DAMN YOU!!!!!!!!!
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