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Bowling
◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ ○(4/5: great)
Atari 2600
Atari (1979)
Sports
I'm not going to hold back here: This is the best bowling game ever made.



Listen, bowling is just mastering a repetitive motion, right? You pick a ball off the rack, put on some old-timey shoes that 100 people put their stinky feet in, cram down some cheap food, walk up to the dots, and do exactly the same thing you did last time. Do the exact same thing 12 times and you get a perfect game.

Atari's Bowling game captures this perfectly. Boil yourself a hot dog and cook up some grocery-store brand fries, put on that pair of bowling shoes you stole that one time, and the atmosphere is basically complete. Your computer image shimmies up to the line and you try to do exactly the same thing you did last time. Do it right and you get a pretty stellar success animation. What more do you need?



Mark it a 4, dude.

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Last updated: 06/20/2021
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