With the holiday season soon on the horizon They’d develop a game for the good boys and girls To promote and proclaim themselves to the world So, here we go folks: It’s time to thoroughly examine the circumstances and history behind a novelty Flash game from the late 90s, and to dissect its cheap cash-in of a cartridge conversion. But now that I know what I know, I feel obligated to share it with the rest of the world. You know, I really thought I was just picking out an easy little game for myself this month at first? I seriously had no idea what I was getting myself into.
Well, to hell with my plans for the holidays, I guess! It looks like I’m gonna have to put in the hours getting down to the bottom of this incredibly stupid mystery. Oh, and to top it all off the current owner to the Elf Bowling trademark once waged a Wikipedia edit war to condemn the “unauthorized” releases of these games - a trademark he only owns because his company bought the rights second-hand for themselves, right out from under the original creators’ noses.
#NSTORM ELF BOWLING 1 PC#
I should also mention that these retail products serve as conversions of a pair of freeware PC games, which were nearly six years long in the tooth prior to their consolization treatment.
I may as well mention right upfront that they are almost identically the same game, with only minimal differences in terms of presentation between them. Well, as long as we’re in it for the long haul here, I may as well get what is largely considered to be “the worst of the worst” out of the way nice and early.Įlf Bowling 1&2 was launched concurrently on Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance and DS on November 28th, 2005, to what can only be described as a overwhelmingly negative critical response. But I reckon that’s not really in the spirit of the site here, is it? No, it feels like my duty is to take on the worst of them one-by-one on an annual basis, until such time as the abolition of all December holidays or the heat death of the universe. I should honestly just induct every one of them ever made to the Bad Game Hall of Fame all at once, and save myself the chore of having to write about any of them individually. This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors).Christmas-themed video games suck. The elves can also randomly move out of the way of the ball, and one elf can be decapitated by the pin setter. Both during the game and after a game finishes, the elves do a dance, shouting "Elf elf, baby!" in reference to Vanilla Ice's song "Ice Ice Baby". The elves moon Santa (asking "who's your daddy" as they do it). A white rabbit also jumps and defecates across the bowling lane. If one hits the frog with the bowling ball his body is hauled away from the screen by a bird from Frogapult. Other potential distractions for the user are a deer that walks up along the bowling lane that can be "hit" with the bowling ball if the correct buttons are pressed, and a frog wearing a Santa hat hopping back and forth across the player's field of vision (resembling Kalvin Kroaker from Frogapult, also made by Nstorm). During the game, the elves say phrases such as "Is that all the balls you got, Santa?" when the player misses their first spare opportunity or "Gutter ball!" in a silly-sounding voice when a ball is rolled into the gutter. In Elf Bowling, Santa Claus gets revenge on his striking elves by using them as bowling pins.
A later release of the game on Nintendo handheld consoles Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance was universally panned by critics. In the game the player, as Santa Claus, attempts to knock down elves who are arranged like bowling pins. Elf Bowling 1 & 2 is a game on the Game Boy Advance played by Danny and Arin played on Jingle Grumps series, and the first to be played on the series.Įlf Bowling is a computer game developed by NStorm and released in 1998.
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