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Archived from the original on February 24, 2004. ^ 'New Straits Times - Google News Archive Search'.^ Inc, Nielsen Business Media (10 December 1994).The editors called Jewels II 'a great design', and found it to be 'well worth the time for anyone who enjoys challenging puzzles wrapped up in a simple, enjoyable package.' References Jewels II was the runner-up for Computer Gaming World 's award for the best classic game of 1998, although it lost to You Don't Know Jack: The Ride. Shakespeare later created another game for Dreamcatcher called ‘’Forever Worlds: Enter the Unknown'. The games are now owned by ‘’THQ Nordic'.

Jewels II was also known as Gems of Darkness, but the title was changed to Jewels II to take advantage of the previous game's popularity.


The game was subsequently acquired by ‘’Dreamcatcher Interactive', an international distributor that had previously acquired rights for the original Jewels game from Discis (following bankruptcy). At the time of its release, however, H + A acquired Corel’s CD Home Collection (over 60 titles) that included Jewels II. The original creator of Jewels, ‘’Courtland Shakespeare', formed a new production company in Toronto called ‘’Bardworks Ltd.' and signed a distribution deal with software developer ‘’Corel'. Enlarged to 3 discs with expanded interface and navigation, the followup was not created by the original production company (ELOI) or distributed by the original publisher (Discis). Jewels II: The Ultimate Challenge is the sequel to ‘’Jewels of the Oracle'.
