17 Facts About Peggle

Peggle is a casual puzzle video game developed by PopCap Games.

Peggle initially sold slowly but was boosted by the inclusion of a specially designed demonstration in Valve's The Orange Box, and has since been downloaded over 50 million times.

Each of the Peggle Masters has a unique special ability that is activated when the player strikes one of the two randomly selected green pegs on the board.

Peggle was originally envisioned by PopCap's studio director, Sukhbir Sidhu, who was inspired by pachinko machines.

Peggle Extreme was packaged with the Windows version of The Orange Box, featuring levels inspired by Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal.

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Peggle Extreme was eventually made free to download for anyone with a Steam account.

The game was developed in conjunction with Valve after PopCap's Teams learned that Peggle was played often at Valve's offices and that the company had helped to promote the game on Steam.

Peggle has been ported to Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation Network, the iPod, and iOS.

Peggle has been ported as a minigame inside World of Warcraft, featuring levels based on the game, though including a limited set of Peggle Masters to use.

Warcraft players can use Peggle to decide how to distribute loot from successful raids or dungeons.

The sequel expands upon Peggle by adding one new Peggle Master in addition to new levels and challenges.

Peggle Nights was made available as an in-app purchase for iOS devices.

IGN's Erik Brudvig cited Peggle as being "simple enough for anybody to pick up and instantly start having fun".

The Xbox Live version was seen as truthful to the PC version, and while the Peggle Party mode was considered an interesting addition, Dan Whitehead of Eurogamer felt it was a "curiously remote approach" that did not fully integrate a multiplayer experience into the game, a point stated by Mastrapa who lamented the lack of online leaderboards.

Peggle has been downloaded more than 50 million times from the Internet as of early 2009, though PopCap has not released how many of these downloads were for full sales of the game.

Peggle stated that while its theme could easily turn players off, they should not let it, as it is "It's infectious, and most importantly, fun" according to him.

Peggle is considered by some critics to be an addictive game, with Forbes noting that it entices the user to play "just a few more minutes".