Extra Life: Getting sufficient amounts of points - 25,000, 75,000, and 125,000 - on any shot can net up to three extra lives.One wonders who is willing to fund such a program. Excuse Plot: The game's narrative premise is that you are learning to play Peggle at the famous Peggle Institute, and therefore must play endless levels of Peggle.Dream Episode: The premise of Peggle Nights is that each Peggle host has a dream they want to achieve, but it all turns out to be fake.However the game recognizes that this would still be a winning move, and therefore goes into dramatic slow motion when you're about to hit the green peg. Developer's Foresight: Tula's Flower Power can light up orange pegs anywhere on the board, meaning that it's possible to win a level by hitting a green peg instead of the last orange peg.Cute Kitten: Kat Tut, and in Nights, Lord Cinderbottom's stages consist of him saving the cats and kittens of a town from a fire.As in, the reward screen outright states "Bragging Rights Unlocked". Cosmetic Award: One of the rewards for beating the Celestial Realm in Peggle 2 is bragging rights.Heck, just shoot Master Hu's Zen Ball to see it-one of the few times you can actually use this to your advantage. Even watching Demo Mode is convincing enough. The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: The game's AI.Chuzzle, Insaniquarium, and Zuma are other games made by PopCap. Company Cross References: In the original Peggle, Chuzzles are scattered around Splork's stages, Claude has a level called "Insane Aquarium", and in Nights, Warren reads 'Z-U-M-A' off a statue description.Comeback Mechanic: A minor one, but fail to hit a single peg with a ball, and your character will flip a coin to let you have a chance at getting it back.Boss Rush: One of the challenges revolves around beating consecutive Peggle Master duels.The Super Guide shows you where a ball will go after the first bounce, and the Pyramid is a good way to score easy Free Balls. Boring, but Practical: Some of the more basic specials, like Bjorn's Super Guide and Kat Tut's Pyramid, can definitely come in handy on some levels.Big "WHAT?!": Making an exceptionally good score in a single shot in Blast gets you this (in the same choir-like manner as the other ones, amusingly).Though Splork manages to avoid this trope here, being the only other master to be playable aside from Bjorn. This is also the case for Peggle World of Warcraft.Bjorn is the only playable master in Extreme, with all the others either completely absent or Demoted to Extra.Also takes the Allegedly Free Game route popularized by Candy Crush Saga. Bjorn, Jimmy Lightning, Warren, and Tula return from the original games to join seven new Peggle Masters with new abilities. Peggle Blast: Released in 2014 for Android and iOS.Has a new animated visual style, new levels, and five new Peggle Masters (Bjorn and later on via DLC Jimmy Lightning are the only returning Masters), each with their own leitmotifs and abilities. Contains all of the levels from Peggle Deluxe and Peggle Nights, a new "bonus underground" mode, and a collection of new levels featuring art from Q Entertainment. Peggle Dual Shot: The Nintendo DS version of the game.Peggle World of Warcraft: Like Extreme, but for World of Warcraft.An extra 10 levels (labeled "Spring Fever") were released around the time PopCap released Plants vs. Peggle Extreme: A sort of demo version of the game originally released as part of Valve's Orange Box, it contains unique levels themed for Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal and an extra Counter-Strike-themed level.All the same levels and challenges as Deluxe. Peggle (iPod): An iPod port of Peggle Deluxe that is identical gameplay-wise, but features numerous minor visual modifications to suit the iPod's capabilities as well as providing 12 balls on level start instead of 10.The Peggle series currently consists of six games: Conditions include getting a certain minimum score (harder than it sounds), playing a variation of the usual level with more orange pegs than normal, or clearing every single peg to name the three most common ones. Beat all the regular levels and you can then try your hand at the challenges, which are the same levels, but with certain conditions that must be met to beat the challenge. Succeed, and you're off to the next level. The goal is simple: you're given ten balls and you have to knock out all the orange pegs on the screen by bouncing the ball off the various pieces of scene geometry. Peggle is a highly addictive series of puzzle games from developer PopCap Games, available for purchase via Valve's Steam service and Microsoft's Xbox Games Store. Yahtzee Croshaw from Zero Punctuation reviewing Peggle.
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