Instead, the Bloats cancel holidays, steal profits, and increase the Zoombinis' workload, compelling them to take matters into their own hands (or lack thereof) and get the hell out of Dodge. The Bloats - another word for 'suits,' if you will - overrun the isle after promising to advance the Zoombinis' lives through modernization of their manufacturing processes. But the Zoombinis' harmonious existence is promptly disrupted, and they flee their native soil in a storyline I've since learned has purposefully heavy Socialist undertones. The game begins on Zoombini Isle, where 625 Zoombinis live in peace producing 'small useful things that were prized the world over,' such as paper clips and those strange hard bindings at the tips of shoelaces ( ed’s note: they’re called “aglets”). And unlike those exhaustively annoying memes, it kind of is something only '90s kids will remember. If any of these descriptors jog your memory, you might have played Brøderbund's bestselling educational-veiled-as-pure-adventure computer program The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis as a child. And sixteen azure beans with sunglasses, roller skates, springs for legs, and nearly blue-black hair. A technicolor wall of mud a stone lion with a magic paw an impatient Cajun ferryboat captain. Three slick-talking tree stumps with a virtually indomitable appetite for pizza. An anthropomorphic cliffside in dire need of some Zyrtec.
