Peggle

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $17.66

Features:

• Wield 10 miraculous magic powers
• Master 55 levels of bouncy delight
• Play friends or the computer in Duel Mode
• Conquer 75 Master challenges
• Revel in breathtaking artwork and music

Customer Reviews:

addictive [Posted on 2008-05-22]
As an adult I can tell you this game is fun, simple, harmless and addictive!!

Surprisingly addictive fun [Posted on 2008-06-20]
My wife enjoys bejeweled, book worm et al and so I thought this would make a nice 'stocking filler' for her birthday. Boy, I ended up playing it as much as she does.

The premise is simple; in adventure mode you travel through many varied levels attempting to remove orange pegs by shooting a ball at them. Said ball then proceeds to bounce around hitting everything in sight before it finally succumbs to gravity and falls off the screen and is lost. Once this happens, the pegs that the ball has struck are removed from the level opening up new strategies and pathways. You get ten balls per level plus the opportunity to gain extra balls through bonus score runs and so on.

Whilst the basic concept is simple, the bonuses in the shape of the special green pegs totally transform the strategy - in some levels the ball will split into two (multiball) and others temporarily give you flippers just like pinball and it adds so much to the game. Do you go for the nearby orange peg, the magic green peg or the bonus score purple? Do you shoot to the left or the right? Or straight down?

The presentation is top-notch as you might expect from Pop Cap games. The sounds, visual effects and level design all add up to a much greater experience than I expected reading the premise of the game. And whilst it can be hard to complete some levels, the game has the all-important "just one more go" factor.

And once you've done adventure mode it's not over. You then get scores of challenges to complete, some against the computer, adding longevity to an already large game.

Highly recommended, I'd rate this as high as Bejewled 2 - so if you're a fan of non-violent casual games you can just pick up and play at a whim then you won't be disappointed. Do keep in mind that I'm certain your productivity will decrease by 50% if you play this at work though!

The purple peg! Aim for the puuuuuurple peg! [Posted on 2008-06-26]
A combination of Plinko and a Bejeweled-esque game, Peggle is part skill and a lot of luck. I'm not sure about the physics on some of the bounces, but as it often works in my favor, I'm willing to let it slide. Except, of course, when you're playing the computer and it gets all the lucky bounces...

There's a training mode you go through first, which introduces you to all the types of bonus helping bits (for when you hit green pegs) and gives you a feel for the game. Then you move on to the challenges, which range from only slightly harder than the training sessions to virtually impossible. I've not managed to accomplish all of them, but I'm still working on it...

The music is annoyingly catchy, from the background ditty to the triumphant 'Ode de Joy' played when you complete a level. The graphics are simple and very bright, but fit with the feel of the game. The scoring is... complicated and I have no idea how it's done.

If you're a fan of Bejeweled, JewelQuest, Hexic, or the like you will love (and probably get slightly addicted to) Peggle. Highly recommended.

Extreme Plinko [Posted on 2008-07-09]
This review is for Peggle Deluxe, which is available for Mac OS X -

You remember Plinko, right? Quite possibly the best of the mini-games on The Price Is Right? After guessing the correct price for an Oster blender ($45, not $35!!) and other fabulous prizes in order to win slider tokens, the contestant would get to go carefully drop their sliders down the Plinko board and watch it bounce and ricochet toward a money-lined grave, somewhere at the bottom. My childhood memories of Plinko may be somewhat rose-colored (or else otherwise altered by CocoaPuffs), but Peggle Deluxe captures the same fun that drew me to Plinko in the first place, throws in a flavor of the Japanese parlor game Pachinko and puts it in an addictive, challenging package that anyone can pick up and play in seconds.

The concept to Peggle Deluxe is quite simple - a board of blue and orange pegs is presented, you have to hit all the orange ones, and you've only got ten balls to do it with. The mechanics of the game are simple and addictive - aim a ball toward the pegs, pull the trigger and see what happens. Since most of the levels have more than ten orange pegs, it's going to take some careful aiming and luck to clear a level. But fear not, you can earn free balls in a variety of ways - rack up enough points during a shot, drop the ball into the moving 'free ball' bucket at the bottom, hit one of the two special green pegs in a level. The green pegs can also offer other powers - explosions, fireballs, multiball, pyramids and more, brought to you buy a colorful cast of cartoon characters. Once you're down to the last orange peg, things start to ratchet up-the screen will zoom in and go into slow-motion as the ball nears your remaining quarry, with much celebration ensuing if you manage to knock it off. The 'fever round' starts where the Ode To Joy breaks out, extra points aplenty are earned and things get even crazier on the screen. Right - there is a catchy-enough sound-track with stereo-sound effects which suit the game well. Let me put it this way, finish the first level and you'll not be able to help the broad smile that breaks out as you finish the second and subsequent levels.

Peggle Deluxe runs on any machine running 256MB Ram, OSX 10.4+ and a G4, G5 or Intel processor; it contains more than 125+ bright and colorful levels - some tricky, some easy, all fun. I had to take off 0.000005 points for the fact that Green Apple Games chose to have a box pop up exhorting you to try their other games immediately after opening and quitting the program - not a big thing, but annoying.

That one minor quibble aside, I've nothing but praise for Peggle Deluxe, with its casual, addictive, colorful gameplay that is a great way to kill a few minutes and can easily kill a few hours. A demo is available that is good for an hour of gameplay - be careful, though, it's enough to get you hooked!

Awesome fun [Posted on 2008-07-10]
I tried this game as a trial version. I have had so much fun I decided I had to own it. I cant wait to take all of the levels and challenges on.

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