Snood
LGR has a great video out that showcases Snood, a crazy popular Puzzle Bobble / Bust-A-Move clone that dropped in the 90's and was very popular even in to the 2000's era. It was created at the height of the shareware craze and was brought from it's early Mac version to PC, GBA, DS and most recently iOS. I remember many people at University that played Snood but it wasn't something I wanted to really play. I'd played Puzzle Bobble and other games like it before and I think what initially turned me off to it wasn't really the game itself. It was introduced to me by someone I didn't personally like at University and I think that initial introduction to the game soured me...
Snood was life for a while. I loved it but I had mostly forgotten about it until now.
I forgot about the creepy face game. I kinda want to forget again. I pray the nightmares don't return.
I've heard of this game, but after watching some of the video, I have to wonder how this didn't end up as a Facebook game.
It was around for a long time before Facebook, and especially Facebook games. By then the magic had died and it probably wouldn’t have done well as a Facebook game.
But you’re right that it kinda feels like one
If y'all are looking to relive it the iOS version is free AND there is a version on the Snood website called Snood Plus that is free and not really featured gated for anything of the core game.