League Bowling is an arcade game released in 1991 by SNK

SNK Playmore

SNK Playmore Corporation is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. SNK is an acronym of , which was SNK's original name. The company's legal and trading name became SNK in 1986....

 for the Neo Geo

Neo Geo (console)

The is a cartridge-based arcade and home video game system released on July 1, 1991 by Japanese game company SNK. Being in the Fourth generation of Gaming, it was the first console in the former Neo Geo family, which only lived through the 1990s...

 console and arcade systems. The game was unique in that it was the first arcade to put emphasis on bowling. The players control characters with red and blue hair and can selected balls from 9 to 16 pounds.

Flash

Values of 100 to 500 will flash on a randomizer during the time the bowler throws his shot. A strike adds the bonus flash value to the score accumulated at the end of the game.

Strike 90

Played just like regulation except that a strike adds 90 points to the next two shots, and a spare adds 60 points to the next shot. 30 points are awarded in the case of a field goal (throwing the ball in between the 7 and 10 pins).

Ports

Tom Fulp

Tom Fulp

Thomas Michael "Tom" Fulp is the co-owner of video game company The Behemoth, and the creator and administrator of Newgrounds, a popular website for sharing Flash files...

, the founder and the CEO of Newgrounds

Newgrounds

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 ported the game to Flash in 2002. the port features no ball selection, a regulation mode only, less animations, and the different player's sprites are the same.

Later on 2010, SNK Playmore release the Neo-Geo Station, which includes the emulation of the game and other Neo-Geo games for the PlayStation 3

PlayStation 3

The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

 and the PSP

PlayStation Portable

The is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Corporation Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on , 2004, at a Sony press conference before E3 2004...

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On July 12 2011, Virtual Console

Virtual console

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 version for the Wii

Wii

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 was released in Japan

Japan

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Easter Egg

Nadia, from the anime "Nadia - The secret of the blue water

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water

is a Japanese animated television series inspired by the works of Jules Verne, particularly Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and the exploits of Captain Nemo...

" can be seen cheering in the background.

External links

• Play League Bowling online at Newgrounds