These include the Slow-Down ball, which slows the rate at which new balls are introduced into the puzzle the Backwards ball, which reverses the flow of the balls to give you more time to hit them the Accuracy ball, which gives your shots more power and accuracy (no duh!) and the Explosion ball, which is technically a bomb that will explode once you hit it. In order to activate them, you must hit these power balls in a sequence before the power-up symbol disappears. Zuma Deluxe also has some interesting power-ups. You then have to go through the same puzzle tracks with these additional colors. You start out with just a few basic colors at the beginning, but after you scale the first few stages, a new color is added to the gameplay. The premise of the game is simple: just aim your frog at the balls filing in from a corner (or two) of the screen that are similar in color to the one that's in your frog's mouth and you're all good. There is an Aztec-like theme and feel to the game, which is made clear in the sound effects each time you make a string of three or more colored balls.

Zuma Deluxe is an interesting Match 3 game where you shoot out colored balls from the mouth of a comical-looking stone frog in the middle.

So I played Zuma Deluxe again and found out. My mom dislikes computers and anything relatively techie and she only used the computer to type up documents or print out photos when she had to. Imagine my surprise when I got home to find my dad playing the game on my PC! Then my mom followed suit and when she did, I really found myself wondering what was up with the game. I eventually forgot about it until yesterday. I stopped playing the game when things got busy with my thesis but I didn't bother to uninstall the game, figuring I would just finish the game later on. I first played this game a few years back when I was still in college. Now Zuma Deluxe is a Match 3 type of video game that I think is definitely a force to be reckoned with.

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