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A Bejeweled Wedding Proposal

By Alex in Pictures, Toy & Video Games on Apr 15, 2008 at 12:26 pm


To propose to his girlfriend Tammy Li, Bernie Peng wrote a Bejeweled game (from scratch!) on her Nintendo DS. After she reached a certain score, the screen cleared and a ring dropped down (she said yes).

Fox News has more details:

The couple plan to marry over Labor Day weekend, and PopCap, the Seattle company that makes "Bejeweled," will fly the couple to Seattle as part of their honeymoon.

"Most video game companies would frown on people manipulating their games," said Garth Chouteau, a spokesman for PopCap.

"But it won him a woman. As a bunch of geeks we have to say, ‘Bernie, hats off to you."’

The company is also supplying copies of "Bejeweled" to hand out as favors to the wedding guests. [No word on which format those will be.]

Link to Bernie’s Blog Post | Fox News story


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  1. Morgan
    Apr 15th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    As a videogame geek who is married to another videogame geek, I think Bernie had a great idea, koodoos to PopCap for helping the lucky couple.

  2. Thespian24601
    Apr 15th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    That's adorable and awesome. Better than the WoW one.

  3. Viola
    Apr 15th, 2008 at 2:01 pm

    That's adorable. Hats off to PopCap and the couple.

  4. CheeseDuck
    Apr 15th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    Aww

  5. Coyote
    Apr 15th, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    That is really awesome of popcap! And congrats to the couple.

  6. drunkenass
    Apr 15th, 2008 at 4:07 pm

    Nicely done, geek.

  7. Xinavera
    Apr 15th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    My girl would have killed me if I'd tried something like that, but as long as she said yes, it's all good.

  8. jessleigh
    Apr 15th, 2008 at 5:49 pm

    How sweet! Now that is a good man.

  9. the robot child
    Apr 15th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    gotta hand it to those geeks they're pretty creative.

  10. Oomi
    Apr 16th, 2008 at 1:07 am

    Very cool.

  11. Evilbeagle
    Apr 16th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    Popcap rocks for being so cool about the whole thing. The whole story, and the groom to be's idea were very sweet. That's love.

  12. ted
    Apr 17th, 2008 at 5:42 am

    Couldn't he just have asked her?
    Seems a little impersonal.

  13. aw
    Apr 20th, 2008 at 10:35 am

    No Videos available?

  14. Arty
    Apr 29th, 2008 at 1:21 pm

    Clever! Best of luck to the couple.

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