PopCap - The King of Casual 

they made some of the most nostalgic games in casual gaming, and thats a fact

honestly i didn't expected the first seconds of their history 💀

Seeing this video felt like seeing an old friend, and that warms my heart so much. We grew up poor, as a result we never had any console game of any form until today. My dad pirated a lot of things, and one of those were the casual games by PopCap, and occasionally by GameHouse and BigFish. We learned how to crack games based on the Shareware editions of the games, and spent whatever time we had grinding the heck out of those games. Eventually, the entire family including my aunt made use of the family computer we got from the office to play those games. HECK, there were entire scoreboards on who’s Zuma or Bookworm Adventures were the highest. As for me, Heavy Weapon is my all-time favourite PopCap game and honestly with the crude tone of the game it could pass as a Newgrounds game. PopCap definitely touched all generations instead of the kiddie demographic other casual gaming companies would. Even if there’d be more games from other publishers, we’d always return to PopCap. I still have an entire collection for old time’s sake. Thanks for reminding me of the good old days.

Bookworm Adventures is so underappreciated because it's a word game. I genuinely think it has one of the most iconic sound tracks in videogames. Might not be the most popular but when it doesn't even distract you or annoy you when you play it even though it's a word game.

For once, I can say EA didn't ruin everything. PopCap started digging their own grave a while before they got bought by them.

As a professional casual gamer that sucks whenever I try to be competitive, I LOVE THIS COMPANY.

7:08 omg, I have been looking for this game for years and I’ve finally found it in this video! I remember the game from when I was very young, and after not being able to find it for so long I started to think it never even existed, but now here it is.

RIP Bejeweled, Bejeweled 3 was and is still amazing

Zuma was the first game i have ever played when i was little.The nostalga is hitting.

These games were aesthetically perfect. They looked so beautiful because they came before the 2010s' obsession with minimalism, they were full of detail and proud of it.

Yaknow popcap's success is most likely because of the simplicity, it's like their games are basic loops you'll never get tired of

I miss Popcap. Insaniquarium was such a good game. Edit: 2002 was a good year for Popcap apparently. Those are some of their best.

PvZ, Feeding Frenzy, Zuma, and my favorite one, Bookworm Adventures. Man... Popcap sculpted my childhood like freaking Donatello bruh And who would forget how awesome they made soundtracks in their games? Feeding Frenzy really captured that underwater vibe, PvZ with its sick electro-style while also including a few suspense notes as if the zombies were coming for you and how diverse the Bookworm OST was and how they fit every song from the books’ genre!

as a person that used to play a lot of popcap games as a kid, I can tell you I loved them I still play some like peggle or feeding frenzy today

I actually had a file full of pop cap games and I've only played like 1/4th of them. Tradewinds and Iggle pop were the ones I played the most with the exception of the the yearly hits.

The whole PopCap games in the 2000's era was my complete set of childhood. Specially in 2009, I had great memories there. I could even play and play those games all over again, even now. Although modern PopCap has what we have for now, I actually liked playing PVZ 2 from 2016-2017. For me, that was my glorious era for the game.

Zuma was my childhood, too bad we'll never get another game like it. Also there's this strange video-game company called "InterAction" and they're known for making Chicken Invaders ; probably one of the best Space Invaders parodies to ever exist but there's barely any info about them. Maybe you can cover this topic please?

T3rr0r makes one of my fav content. Keep up the good work T3rr0r :)

Great video, i really like your editing style, yout one of my inspirations.

Sweet new t3rr0r upload. Doing great man! Keep up the great work!

This is really informative, well put together, and the editing is fuckin hilarious. bang up job man, this slaps

PopCap Games were actually one of the reason I pursued game development, as back then the game files were all in plain sight and editable (before they pack them all in a single .pak file like many games these days). As a kid I would modify them to see how the change takes effect in the game, from changes to the scoring system, to graphics swap. I would then try different games to mod, and eventually taught myself some game development. Looking at the state that PopCap is in, I felt like I'm being passed a torch for gamedev, as I learned Unreal Engine and developing game myself. If it weren't for them, I might've been taking a different path, so my sincere thanks to their past self serving as one of my gamedev hero, and this video for taking down memory lane.

Pop cap was my childhood. Such a shame they sold out to EA.

Peggle was the first computer game I ever played. It still holds a special place in my heart as the beginning of it all. (Even though Forza 4/Horizon really made me start to love video games.)

Loved seeing this video! I enjoyed Popcap in my younger years playing Zuma, Feeding Frenzy and Big Money.

One of my favorite RU-vidrs, keep up the good work man

PopCap rocked my world as a child. Their games hit hard, even to this day. Zuma, Bejeweled, Peggle and Chuzzle are some of my favorite games ever!

Little correction but Banana Bugs is actually kind of a sequel, it's a follow-up to the games "Water Bugs" and "Cosmic Bugs" made by a company called Retro64 which got bought by PopCap. :)

Omg when you showed the games I was so shocked. I never even knew they were made by popcap!!! I remember when I was 4, I used to always wanted to play bookworm adventures and pvz but our pc is broken. But we have zuma and feeding frenzy on the laptop and omg were they AMAZING. Oh and I was born in 2007, tech just came to my country pretty late.

I remember having a folder full of popcap games in an old family laptop, I think it was from a cracked dvd but I still remember alot of titles from them even the really obscure ones like heavy weapon which was my favorite, it was my childhood when everybody else was playing fps games and dota(not sure if lol was released yet)

Great video about PopCap Studio. It was my childhood to grow up with these games. PopCap and PlayFirst were 2 studios that shaped my childhood. Hope you can talk about PlayFirst studio too

Hey t3rror, i really appreciate the great editing and entertaining videos you make, especially when it's about PopCap. I have one request, can you make a video about "Zeebarf" an indie game developer who made popular games like "The Visitor" even Markiplier and Jacksepticy (i really don't know how it's written) played those games. Thank you

Popcap might me making the worst updates to PVZ2 now,but their game,PVZ,will forever be in my hearts

Despite its stupid micro transactions, the games are amazing, nostalgic

4:30 for anyone wondering, the list is: Alchemy Seven Seas Mummy Maze Big Money! Atomica Noah’s Ark Dynomite! TipTop NingPo MahJong Rocket Mania! Typer Shark AstroPop Pixelus Cosmic Bugs Heavy Weapon Pizza Frenzy Word Harmony Talismania Bonnie’s Bookstore Iggle Pop! Hammer Heads Water Bugs Venice Chuzzle: Christmas Edition The Wizard’s Pen Gyromancer Banana Bugs (This took too long to write)

Oh my god this video is just now reminding me almost all the games ive been playing as a child is from popcap. im so full of nostalgia rn

To be honest, pop cap was the BEST company even if its 2022

the way i saw your pvz video on my "new to you" tab and after searched "pop cap" and another one of your videos poppped up :))

Ah, Zuma and Feeding Frenzy. My two favourite casual games. I can't even decide which one I like more.

Do any of you remember being 6 years old, trying to pass the peggle levels on your PC or Xbox 360? Remember getting stuck on the night zone in plants versus zombie's? Remember constantly losing and getting bullied by balls in Zuma, and seriously just being dog water at fishing frenzy always trying to eat the wrong fish? Yeah me too. Things have changed, and we gotta appreciate that popcap was born in the right generation. Looking back things have changed, and we'll just have to stick to that R.I.P 2000-2021, you died doing what you love, that's why we honour you, popcap

PopCap was basically half my childhood, Platypus was the best game ive ever played back then, and it's still is.

Nostalgic, sucha good memories way back. Hope you could talk more about old pc games like gamehouse.

Heavy Weapon Deluxe is also a good game made by PopCap. It's one of the most underrated PopCap games.

PvZ and Zuma is the two of my favorite games when I was a child. I was playing those two games in my old computer (but sadly, my old computer is dead due to old age and cannot handle the program).

Me and my brother used to play does popcap games like pvz,fish frenzy,zuma in my mother's pc that used for her job and work and also the CS1.16 where it all began what a nostalgic.

Thank you pop cap for making my childhood games 😢😢😢😢

The reason why i love popcap is because of the art style, anyone else?

“this year also saw the release of Zuma Revenge” Poor ‘s, he never did anything wrong, and yet, he became forgotten… By the way, you forgot to mention Bejeweled 3 in 2010. Anyways, awesome video! I’m glad to see a History of Popcap video since I have played PopCap my whole life, mostly Zuma. It’s very sad to see how EA is ruining PopCap. But that’s how it is. It was also very interesting to see a photo of PopCaps TRUE first game, which was that poker game. Also, Zuma has actually appeared in PVZ3 as a easter egg, which is very cool. Maybe PopCap remember old games after all. This comment is way too long and I have no control over myself

I love how pop cap just made hit classics than they just didn’t and made spin off for 12 years and one that’s been in the making for 4 year

Thank you so much for this ❤️

I had the PS3 version of PvZ with Peggle and Heavy Weapon so does 3 are my favorite games from them! My cousins and I use to play the multiplayer of those games a lot! Makes me sad that they never did a Heavy Weapon 2.

the first ever game i played was feeding frenzy when i was a child, it is still so good

Bookworm was my favorite pop cap game. My god that unlocked so much memories for me that i feel like i could cry

Omg Chuzzle! I used to love that one too. This is a whole nostalgia trip even though I randomly clicked on this on the loo lol

Oh heck yeah.. I'm so glad to find out I'm not the only one who grew up with these casual pc games made with soul and passion poured into them. I should stream these games someday.. now I know what I want to do this weekend..

PopCap games and GameHouse's were my childhood. I remember my brother bought a disc full of them.

The sounds used in the games really drew me in to them. The satisfaction of a good shot on Peggle for example

Pop cap made my childhood

Ngl Zuma’s Revenge is one of the the greatest games in existence and my personal favorite game because of its immense replayability

I mean Bookworm Adventures with the killing is amazing (my mom finished it haha) but I think I broke too many mouses just for INSANIQUARIUM! Protecting your fish from the villains while getting the coins was intense. We cry when the expensive one dies. 🤣🤣 And I also love that it was my first game where you continuously take care of them even when the pc's off. 😍

Not just PopCap, GameHouse was a big one too and I would love to see more light shed on them nowadays

Man zuma and pvz was my chidlhood and i remember being excited to go to my grandmas as my granpa loved these kind of games and id remeber loving zuma i still play it to this day on my beast pc as well as pvz

woah, a perfect timing to upload when i want to eat my dinner haha

I've loved PVZ since it came out. I remember in 2012, I used to force my dad to get on the Xbox 360 and play the triple feature peggle, zuma, and plants versus zombies. I remember the last time he ever did, in 2013, we played it and never again. We used to enjoy the co op and vs mode. I now have the Xbox 360 in my bedroom, I completely forgot about Pvz until January 2023. I got back into it, found this video, and the rest is history.

That's what i call nostalgia.

5:37 was the most funniest scene when I first watched it

They had a web only game that was amazing called "psychobabble." You and a group of random people would basically place fridge magnet words together to make strange or funny sentences. After everyone was done, the whole chat would vote on what's the best sentence. If your sentence won, you got alot of points, but you could also get points for successfully voting for the winning sentence. I ruled at that game, but it was fun regardless of if you won or lost. It was basically cards against humanity long before CAH became a thing.

Thank god you made a video about pop cap

the fact that i played ALL of these and i want to play them again now

Reject modern EA games, embrace classic popcap games. I downloaded 80 popcap game collection in one zip files, I'm glad to recall my childhood days. Bejeweled, bookworm, dynomite, pvz and other fun games. Memories

Man that logo takes me back

does the video have pvz adventures music? also pls put the music in the description again it's always fun to see what you use

Zuma's Revenge is easily my favorite PopCap game ever

0:08 wow the Bejeweled 2 arcade game is here.

I remember i was so scared of the zooma losing sound? Screen? Idk but i never played zooma since I got scared as a kid

I grew up in a brazilian household with pretty much no gaming consoles whatsoever, so whenever I wanted to do something fun, I resorted to the family PC, where one of my uncles had installed all PopCap games (we didn't have the money to buy original games, so we had only those games to play, and sometimes a free 60 minute demo), and oh dear God, those games were mesmerizing. Heavy Weapon's unique gameplay and remarkable visuals; Chuzzle and Bejeweled (all four of them) were extremely fun and addicting; Zuma and Zuma's Revenge were astonishingly fun; Peggle and Peggle Nights had fascinating graphics and well designed levels; Typer Shark was simple, but something about it is soooo likeable; and Plants vs. Zombies is still one of THE greatest games of all time in literally every aspect (also, the greatest Tower Defense ever, totally not biased btw). They were amazing then, and are still amazing now. I cannot say how much I despise EA for ruining one of the greatest game developing companies of all time, and leaving us stuck with... whatever is in the Play Store now.

bro idk what u talking bout but pizza frenzy, heavy weapon and big money were some of my favorites as a kid

hey you take that back, Gyromancer is pretty neat

I used to play zuma on the old computer on the office my dad work in and i didnt knew what the game name back when im playing it and i didnt knew it was made by pop cap but none the less i enjoyed playing it lol its the 2nd pc game ive ever played lol

Holy shit, chuzzle 0-0 core memory unlocked I never realized how much of my childhood PopCap was behind of. I really thought it was just Plants vs Zombies

These games where my childhood :)) it reminds me when I was 3-5 years old playing on a computer.

I remember having a folder full of pop cap games on my older brother's PC I played almost every game on that but my favorite was Pizza Frenzy

For me it was "Bejeweled Twist". Very underrated and forgotten game imo.

The four horsemen of nostalgic mobile games: Pop Cap, Zeptolab, Rovio, and Halfbrick.

PopCap's Bookworm Adventure is the game that really made me become interested in games, you might say that it's jumpstarted my entire worldview

I played many Pop Cap products, this brings many memories from 2009-2012 era

I've been waiting on a Bejeweled 4 for so long, please I want to see it before I die

@T3rr0r You could be a teacher, you explain things really good

i've played most of popular popcap games after got first ever laptop. oh god, good memories.

There was a big popcap sale today and i got alot of their games

I remember a match game called Bejeweled except it was a Paris Hilton game but had similar premise. I wish it could come back but PH isn't popular anymore 😭

god, feeding frenzy! that was my fav childhood game of all time! i used to play it on my dad's laptop, it was always satisfying to hear the fish-eating sound for some reason, especially when it's chained. the later levels were a little difficult due to my clumsiness, but it was enjoyable! still fuck those bombs i hate hitting onto them-

I loved bookworm adventures and zuma as a kid and I dunno where to download the full version of it

Zuma Deluxe, Bookworm, and Peggle.. holy crap, now those are names I've never heard in a while.

I got a PopCap games bundled in on my first laptop and honestly it was the best thing about the laptop.

Bejeweled on palm pilot was huge!

I remember they used to hide the full version of the game on trial downloads so if you right click and show hidden files you got access to the full game. 11 year old me thought I was a pentagon level hacker

my 50 years old father asked me and my brother to buy him Zuma Revenge on steam because he used to play that a lot a while ago. We did and he's tryharding like a madman on that game. (Also i love Bejeweled, Zuma, Peggle and the original PvZ, used to play them a lot when i was younger)

It's weird cuz a few hours ago I was thinking about Feeding Frenzie, and Zuma. I miss those days

Zuma is a real nostalgic remember playing it