Elf Bowling
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Elf Bowling by NStorm is a humorous computer game released in 1999 in which the player, as Santa Claus, attempts to knock down elves who are arranged like bowling pins.
Elf Bowling and its sequel, Elf Bowling 2, were ported to the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS and was released on December 1, 2005 in the US.
[edit] Overview
In Elf Bowling, Santa gets revenge on his striking elf employees by using them as bowling pins.
During the game, the elves say offbeat 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. Other potential distractions for the user are a deer that walks up along the bowling lane, a frog wearing a Santa hat hopping back and forth across the player's field of vision (which resembles Kalvin Kroaker from frogapult also made by Nstorm) also if you hit him with the bowling ball his carcass is hauled away from the screen by one of the birds from frogapult, and a white rabbit that also jumps across the bowling lane. Both during the game and after a game finishes, the elves do a macarena-like dance, shouting "Elf elf, baby!" in reference to Vanilla Ice's song "Ice Ice Baby".
To date, there have been six editions to the game for PC computers.
- Elf Bowling 2 involved using elves as shuffleboard pieces on the deck of a cruise liner where the player could also shoot penguins off of an iceberg and risk having your elves eaten by sharks or crushed by a falling Easter Island monolith.
- Elf Bowling 3 involved slinging elves in Mrs. Kringle's ample brassiere onto distant ice-bound targets.
- Super Elf Bowling (Elf Bowling 4) was a 3-dimensional upgrade of the original with more complicated ball control and a wider variety of backgrounds, elf antics and elf jokes.
- Elf Bowling - Bocce Style (Elf Bowling 5) used the elves as bocce balls.
- Elf Bowling 6: Air Biscuits involved bowling the elf over a mound of snow which sends the elf airborne. The elf could remain in the air by using "fart" power.
