What do you get when you take Japanese Pachinko (it’s like vertical pinball if you don’t know), turn it virtual and throw in crazy magic powers and mythical creatures? Well of course you get Peggle! The XBLA hit has been shrunk down with magic shrinking powder and stuffed into the iPhone.

Now when I first heard about Peggle getting the iPhone treatment I thought ’oh man, how are they going to make a good interface?’ Well, I’m happy to report that they did just that. By thinking somewhat outside the box. What was normally controlled by the controller has been well adapted to the iPhone touch screen. On the side of the screen (left or right, you can choose) you have a virtual dial that will move you Peggle cannon into place. If you feel you need a bit more fine control you can tap twice to zoom in and when you’re all ready press fire and watch the bouncing silver ball light up the pegs.

The goal remains the same, clear all the red pegs. Green pegs give you magical powers depending on the level and master you choose to assist you and purple pegs give you a points boost. It’s that simple. But it’s anything but simple.

Like it’s larger cousin this game requires some amount of skill and a big fat pile of luck. You need hat luck because the precision is less than it was in its larger version. Due mostly to the small screen, even when you zoom in you won’t always get the ball to carom in the direction you want it to. But you’re not pressed for time in any way so relax, chill out and fine tune to your heart’s content.