pachinko

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Peggle is best compared to pachinko, the Japanese ball-bouncing gambling game.

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  • He was so distracted by the cloaked figure he missed the ball Haron had bounced off the wall of the abandoned building, and it rolled across the sewer grate, bumbling like a pachinko ball before disappearing into the foulness below That's great, Edeo! —  Asimov's SF, July 2006
  • Asking the foreign guy to make pachinko was definitely out of left field. —  Siliconera
  • That said, there's a lot of people who are interested in Japan, and have wondered what pachinko is all about. —  Siliconera
  • Peggle plays as a cross between pinball and pachinko - your goal is to make pegs disappear by hitting them with steel ball shot from a cannon at the top of the screen. —  Macworld UK News
  • In the future of the future, an ancient civilization has sealed away its riches in elaborate temples dedicated to the game of pachinko. —  GamerBytes
 

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