Classic Game Room HD - BOWLING for Atari 2600 review

[andoc]

The characters remind me of Pitfall Harry.

[stuckinthecities]

this is bowling and boring..

[pokemaster12315]

i used to play atari 2600 bowling, but than i took a arrow to the knee

[a1rh3add]

@RhysWickens lol it was just a bad joke

[mdcowboy15]

"When you play Atari Bowling, you're a winner!" AB-SO-LUTE-LY!

[TheMrJokelife]

Power Ranger Time @!

[THEmomsqaud2]

wheres the lines that show the gutter from the actually bowling lane

[a1rh3add]

@THEmomsqaud2 whats a gutter?

[isabelbhernandez]

Does anybody know if this game comes with the flashback 2?

[RowdyRodimus]

@isabelbhernandez Sorry it's a month late, but no, it's not on the Flashback 2-

[51rickjames]

i bowl because i suck at golf

TNO!!!!!

[51rickjames]

i bowl because i suck at golf

[MattTheSaiyan]

Shame they never made a game in which you are a Ninja with a spaceship who plays bowling to win power-pullets, free the animals turned into robots while avoiding the noid at the same time.

[Yoshii49]

i love his blinking bright shirt strike dance. its a seizure in a shirt wow.

[xDanielx2016]

"And when you play Big Rigs, You're Winner!"

[fjccommish]

The problem with playing a 2 player game against yourself is you can either never win, or always win, depending on how you look at it.

[PCGamer77]

Ninja Frisbee Golf would have been an awesome Atari 7800 game.

[thenintendogamer]

Lmfao "i bowl cuz i suck at golf"

[DaVince21]

I owned and loved this game.

[carsonsmith]

I had this for Atari 2600 and played it so much that I could not sleep that night lol, those were the days!!

[ProManUnitedFan]

I love this Intro LOL

[measuringstick]

i use to like this game as a kid, i might have to pick it up again, but i doubt ill ever play it

[TheMike894ftw]

I suck too.

[wesgrosscustoms]

i love this game, i have it for the atari collection on xbox, me and my dad played it all the time, got pretty competitive

[TheCastellan]

I was pretty good at this one, not a perfect score, mind you, but decent. I stink at real bowling, though.

[lilryanps3]

so do i rotfl

[Tryzon]

Have you nothing better to do than spam CGR reviews?

[djphonehome]

who doesnt like sports?

[PlINGIO549]

@djphonehome Me!

[djphonehome]

@PlINGIO549 pshhh wow. then what do you like?

[PlINGIO549]

@djphonehome Gaming, of course.  Why would I watch this if I didn't?

[Tryzon]

Gah, I hate bowling shoes!

[harleykman]

This was released in 1978 as the 26th game for the Atari.

For its time, it was very advanced - instead of a boring square, you had an actual man. No other game was as good (i.e. the Intellivision didn't exist yet).

[ChickensMum]

I once got a perfect 300 on this game. I was so pleased with myself that I left the screen showing the score until my son got home from school so that i could prove to him I did it.

[AgaMbadi]

Bowling a 300 is so easy just throw the ball the way he does at 2:16 every time. I used to hit 300's on this all day long.

[dallase1]

Intellivision's was WAY BETTER it looked like a real bowling alley and had more realistic sound effects compared to the Atari Sound Effects.

[chrisz31974]

Hell yeah dude, that version was so kick ass. All the Intellivision sports games were amazing, for their time

[facistleader]

It's funny how you can 'control' the ball after it leaves your hand. This game was pretty easy but O.K.

[layzivan167]

i cant believe i can watch this in high quality roflmao

[kde776]

car racing isnt't a drinking sport? when did that happen? no one told me

[JumpShufflers]

looks like its very easy to get a strike :D

LOVE YOUR VIDEOS I SUBSCRIBED AND IVE 5 STARED ALL

[plurp7]

Ive been playing this game on the Stella Emulator like every night for the past 3 weeks! great game. high score of 256...so far.

thanks for posting, Atari Bowling was a really good game - considering.

[notyoursavior78]

heh this game I remember reading about it on a old website similiar to something Seanbaby did (if ya'll know or remember who he is). Basically in one of the game modes you could manipulate the ball down the lane as much as you want so it real easy to get strikes or a perfect game. Plus I love the pants that change colors when you nail a strike.

[popculturehero]

bowling looks fun. I think I can justify buying a atari if I can get this.

[wildsmiley]

you can justify buying an Atari 2600 by getting games even better than this:

Pitfall

Yars' Revenge

Missile Command

Frogger

Berzerk

Centipede

Cosmic Ark

and many others. Classic gaming defined.

[TenguGuy]

And Ms. Pacman!

[Rep2369]

Another great review as always Mark. Being an avid bowler myself (go ahead, bash away LOL) I have this for my 2600 and just about every bowling game ever released that I know of. And lemme tell ya, for a game released 30 years ago it's pretty damned good! Finally in the past few years they've gotten the pin physics a lot better but for 30 years ago, ya gotta give the game and programmers a lot of credit. As I said bowling games have come a long way obviously but this was a lot of fun

[stafax]

I remember borrowing this game from my neighbor, and I gave it back after a half hour or so. I didn't like it when I was a kid.

[ThirdBlaze]

I Need to know where you get that Awesome Generic Music From.

I Thought this game was made by Activision. Maybe since Actvision released alot of Sport games back then. But hey, I liked this game back then, so i don't really care

[atm94404]

The game was programmed by Larry Kaplan of "Kaboom!" fame so that may be why you thought it was Activision. Bowling is of historic note because it was the first 2600 game with a multi-colored sprite (something the hardware designers didn't realize the 2600 could do). Mult-colored sprites became popular after this because it was something other consoles couldn't do as easily. Compare the different versions of Dragon Fire to see how colorful the 2600 version is compared "more powerful" consoles.

[SashaNein]

If you want the most advanced Atari programming of the 70s, it's DEFINITELY Adventure. That game is years ahead of its time. It was more complicated than most games at the tail end of the Atari's life span.

Also, Bowling looks great. I'm not a fan of Atari 2600 games anymore, but some of these games like Slot Racers and Bowling seem more fun than a lot of current gen titles that go for graphics and say "F*bleep*CK the gameplay, it has to look pretty!"

[zidaneff]

Tekken Bowling was pretty fun too

[ScrewAttackEurope]

I bet programming a bowling game in the late 70's was quite difficult, I mean if you think about it, theres a lot of physics involved and they're only just getting the hang of doing proper physics in games 30 years later.

[BAM13950]

lol