PopCap Games today announced that Peggle is available for play on the iPod. Users can download Peggle from the iTunes store for US$4.99. The game is available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish. According to PopCap, Peggle has been downloaded more than 10 million times on the Web since its introduction in March 2007.
Peggle utilizes the iPod’s clickwheel and sharp high-resolution display. Another special feature of the iPod-optimized version of Peggle is the ability to listen to your own personal music playlists while enjoying the game. The iPod version of Peggle includes all 55 levels, 10 magical powers and 75 Grand Master challenges, as well as the two-player Duel Mode, of the PC and Macintosh original.
“The clickwheel input of the iPod is a natural fit for controlling Peggle, so we knew this adaptation of the game would be amazing,” said Jason Kapalka, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of PopCap, in the press release. “And with the Duel Mode included, two players can pass the iPod back and forth while battling their way to Extreme Fever!”
In Peggle, players fire a metallic silver ball from the top of the screen, relying on gravity to propel the ball downwards while it ricochets off orange and blue “pegs”. The goal is to clear all the orange pegs from the screen before running out of balls. A moving “bucket” at the bottom of the screen offers free balls, while green power-up pegs give the player one of ten different abilities courtesy of the ten “Peggle Masters” who guide players through the game. These power-ups include explosive area-clearing blasts, lobster claws which serve as pinball-type flippers, and “fireballs” that cut through all pegs in their path. “But nobody can really be told what Peggle is like,” said Kapalka, “you just have to play it for yourself.” Available on retail store shelves, on the Web and now on iPod, Peggle is the must-have game of 2007.
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Damn you, Ampar! You stole it from me. Great minds think alike, I guess.
I don’t want to see another game announcement on MDN until the headline has the word DOOM in it. As in, id releases DOOM for iPhone!
Sorry,
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This game looks like the illegitimate child of a Pachinko machine and Breakout.
“Sega of America is announcing today that Sonic the Hedgehog will debut on the Apple iPod.”
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2007/12/sonic_to_debut_on_the_ipod_.html
How long before we see these games compatible for the iPhone and iPod Touch?
iTunes launches but no Peggle game.
Santa’s bad.
david smith
“How long before we see these games compatible for the iPhone and iPod Touch?”
Approximately 45 days give or take a month.
HEY MDN!! Where’s the coverage on Sonic? Checking out the preview on iTunes, it looks like the full version of the first game!
Great another game with sound, color, effects, etc. Why can’t they provide a game of chess? Oh well, Sonic the Hedgehog looks like a keeper but Peggle?
Hagrid:
Here you go.
http://www.shredderchess.com/iphone/
The Sonic games were great fun. Too bad how Sega ended up.