The sound effects, along with the brilliantly vibrant colors, play a crucial role in the game. Tagging orange pegs on a long-range bounce gives you a bonus, gliding across enough rectangular pegs in a row gives you a super slide bonus, having your ball land in a moving bucket at the screen's bottom gives you a free shot, and whenever you manage to nail a bonus, you can expect a bright starburst and number total to pop up on the screen with an accompanying cheery effect. Beyond that basic formula, there are other bonuses built in to keep things interesting. The one new character in this version, a squid, can send an electric bolt through the peg layout, activating any pegs in a line extending to the screen's bottom. The dragon, for instance, turns the ball into a fireball that can carve through rows of pegs without rebounding. A lot of it is luck, but by hitting the green pegs you can activate a special attack, the functionality of which corresponds to whatever preposterously ebullient cartoon animal happens to be overlooking the board. The catch is you only have a limited number of balls to clear the orange pegs, so you'll need to line up your shots to maximize the number of pegs hit. There's no way Dali could have anticipated his work being used like this. Once all the orange pegs in a stage have been hit and cleared, you move onto the next stage.
After each ball eventually bounces to the screen's bottom, the tagged pegs disappear. Your job is to fire a ball from the top of the screen and attempt to amass as many points as possible by hitting the pegs. The game is broken into different stages, each of which has a different pattern of pegs colored orange, blue, pink, and green. In case you've never played or heard of Peggle, here's the rundown: It's a kind of super-powered pachinko. If you missed Peggle the first time around, PopCap just released Peggle Nights, which turns out to be more of an expansion of sorts more than a sequel, but retains the same ultra-addictive, "just one more game" quality of the original.
Oh God, the colors! The ultra-saccharine hues of PopCap's Peggle made a big impact last year, unexpectedly drawing in droves of hardcore gamers to a casual experience.
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