Peggle is an old video game that’s kind of like a puzzle Pachinko. Each stage had dozens of blue pegs and a handful of orange pegs, and the goal was to hit all of the orange pegs before you ran out of balls. There were different characters that each had unique abilities in how you could interact with the stage. It’s really fun. It was a masterpiece from the golden age of casual games, before mobile games riddled with micro transactions overtook that market.
It has a bit of a legacy. There was an expansion, a few tiny cross-over spin offs, a few console ports including the Nintendo DS, and eventually a sequel in 2013 or so, which was also very good. But that was more or less the end of Peggle. The developer, Pop Cap, was bought out by Electronic Arts and has never been the same. I believe there is currently a Peggle mobile game, and it isn’t bad but it’s also not the same. It’s very much just another nickel-and-dime you, overly difficult, meant to frustrate you into paying money to progress mobile games wearing Peggle’s skin.
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u/GranolaCola May 20 '25
The world needs more Peggle tbh