![]() ![]() ![]() That’s pretty much about all you do, as there’s nothing like angle or positioning to worry about. There’s always one specific spot, just to the left or right of the arrow in the very middle, and if you can manage to hit that, you’ll get a strike every time. The bowling is as simple as watching the arrow on the lane move back and forth, and then hitting the A button once you’re ready to throw. ![]() Instead of striking pins, however, you’re faced with a row of Christmas elves, who constantly throw insults at you while you play. In the original Elf Bowling, you take the role of Santa, somewhere on a bowling lane on the North Pole. This sort of thing might be acceptable when you’re stuck in a school computer lab and bored out of your mind, but for a retail release, it’s pretty much unacceptable. These were originally Flash games, and absolutely no effort has been taken to expand on the concept, as already limited as it is. The cartridge contains the original game, as well as its sequel, both of which are generally so awful that having two games makes the total product twice as bad. So of course, it was a great idea to port the game and one of its saddeningly high number of sequels to the Game Boy Advance, seven years later. Overall, not a good game, but perfectly acceptable for a Flash game from 1998. Then name alone gives away pretty much what the entire game is about, and the funniest joke the game has to offer is a joke about Vanilla Ice. There was, however, a game by the name of Elf Bowling. You could watch short clips from South Park, play some intern’s best attempt at recreating games like Defender, and other than that, you didn’t have a lot of options. In the ancient times past of 1998, Macromedia Flash was just beginning to come into use, far from the ubiquitious source of time-wasting we know it as now. ![]()
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