It looked a bit like other games based on Aztec or Mesoamerican cultures, and after some reading, it looks like that’s exactly the idea: the Zuma (or Suma) were once a people who lived in what is now western Texas. But we did have to do a little research on Zuma 3D by IGT. Most developers keep things pretty simple, making it easy to figure out what they were going for when they created their games. It’s not often we come across casino slot machines where we’re not 100% sure what the inspiration for the theme was, exactly.