I’ve never been much of a gamer. Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy a casual game or two more now than again, but it was never much more than that. I think the games that really manage to captivate me and reel me in are the ones which are wackier and zanier than anything imaginable. Games in which the creativity and randomness had you floored, bewildered, and made sure you were going to have a hell of a lot of fun. It was Day of the Tentacle when I was young, and then Total Distortion (game art here) a few years later (my mother should remember this phase extremely well).
My recent game addiction seems to come in the form of Peggle (hebrew here). I began playing the downloadable demo, and then purchased the just-as-brilliant ipod version. Peggle easily fits into the “they must have been on acid when they thought this one up” category, and do so rather brilliantly.
The gameplay itself is rather straightfoward – navigate a pachinko/pinball-like interface and try to hit all orange pegs on the board. Simple enough – but some of the boards are quite tricky, and eventually, it does take some serious willpower to exit the game and join the land of the living, instead of thinking to yourself “oh, just one more
This “video review” probably explains this game better than I could, so I’ll pass the center stage (NSFW!):
Peggle is available for demo download for PC or Mac, you can also pick it up for your 6th gen. ipod from the iTunes store.
Shit, I just finished the game in one sitting.
Shay, you finished the game plus all of the master challenges in an hour’s worth of demo time?!?!?
I got a trophy :]
That means you get to continue to the master challenges! Good luck, stock up on diet coke and cheez-whiz!
Yeah, I’m taking a rest from it before it gets out of hand