In the interview, and a company email provided on the source page, Pincus goes on to discuss how  “Google didn’t create the first search engine” and also purports that Buffalo Studios, who accused Zynga of plagiarising thier Bingo Blitz, actually copied ideas from Zynga’s Poker Blitz.

Nimblebit have responded: “It is a smart idea for Mark Pincus and Zynga to try and lump all games with the name Tower together as an actual genre whose games borrow from each other. Unfortunately sharing a name or setting does not a genre make… If you take a quick look before ‘pulling the lens back’ as Pincus suggests, you’ll find an innumerable number of details in the game that were painstakingly crafted to be identical to Tiny Tower.”

Bingo Blitz vice president Salim Mitha added that Pincus “does nothing to dispel the notion that Zynga has turned plagiarism (of successful games) into a scalable business model for his company.”

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