League Bowling | Hey Let's Bo'!

[00:00:00] Hey Aaron, when's the last time you've been bowling? Uh, actually Saturday night Cool, it's been a long time for me, should we go together? Let's go Let's Neo Geo Go! Hey guys, it's Neo Geo, it is the Neo, it is the Geo, it is the Go

[00:00:28] Yep, putting the Neo and the Geo in Go I don't know where I was going with that, I'm sorry When you put the Neo with the Geo and shake it all up There's a song here Oh, there we go Yeah Put the Neo and the Geo in shake it all up Yep, I mean, come on We gotta cook it a little bit more That's what you need when you go bowling Or League Bowling, as we're talking about today Released on December 10th, 1990

[00:00:56] Developed and published by SNK What a surprise And Aaron, it sure is bowling, alright It be bowling It do be bowling It be cartoony as fuck bowling, but it's bowling I love the intro where the pins are like alive They have like mouths and faces And shit, and then the bowling ball is coming towards them They're like, no, it literally has a text No! It's like, what's going on? Why are the pins alive?

[00:01:26] The vibe of this game is so fucking cool Like the title screen is just trippy as fuck It's got that kaleidoscope effect That is a seizure nightmare, dude It's crazy I'm all for that Yeah God, I wish I could have seizures I'm just kidding, I don't No, you do not You do not wish you could have those I was always impressed back in the day With how fluid the animations were In League Bowling Like when you Just on the bowler itself And they're still impressive now Like as he's just like

[00:01:55] As you pick your power and everything Just the way he actually swings back And like Does a little leg cross And just It's so fucking fluid It's crazy It is, dude I didn't expect that to be so cool Like yeah The way he like Throws his arm back or whatever And then just Bowls the ball And as I've As I've probably mentioned several times before If not every episode so far I largely played the Neo Geo at this point At the bowling alley We bowled every Saturday morning And then after bowling

[00:02:25] I'd go right to the bowling alley arcade And play See what was new on the Neo Geo So I played League Bowling Very much at the bowling alley Believe it or not Oh my god Hell yeah Whole bowling inception I love it Bowling inception, yeah But I loved it, man It was great I was like Man, why don't I have anything like this at home? We had a bowling game for NES Again, at this point Super Nintendo was not out yet So I wouldn't have any bowling games for that Although a super bowling was fun But that would be a couple years off

[00:02:54] So this was like a real premium bowling game experience for me Because I just Again, I just hadn't seen anything like this The graphics were insane It was like Oh my god There's just so much animation And like personality in this shit Which you have to have for a bowling game, you know? Yeah And it's super fucking slick too You just like You pick the way you want to go Hit A to Fuck it Or hit A When you want the power to go all the way up or not And then he just throws it And it's just It's fast as fuck

[00:03:23] Faster than I could ever bowl I'd be fucking sweating God damn When you bowl When you throw that thing It's just like Ambling down the lane Just kind of leisurely Rotating Yeah, I really wish there was a granny bowl option in this game That'd be really cool Watch the little cartoony guy Just like Bumper bowl Ooh, that'd be cool Why haven't they ever made an arcade bumper bowl game But like make it ridiculous Like it's just It's just like mousetrap a bowling Yeah

[00:03:53] When I was like very young I'm going to say seven or eight years old When we first started going to the bowling alley I did do bumper bowl Like my first year This was the old school ones Where they had to put the long inflatables in the gutter Like literally blow them up Oh shit Yeah Literally blow them up with air Like cushion the ball into the lane Now they have the ones that just like the rails That like stick out You know But yeah But back then it was still pretty old school Believe it or not

[00:04:21] There was like kind of a bowling craze in Japan in the 90s It was like a very trendy thing Hell yeah And like a lot of like bowling alleys and stuff popped up everywhere So that's why there's so many like Japanese bowling games from the 90s Because it was like a trend And like the games from this time It was all about the reaction shot of the bowler Right? As the ball goes down the lane Because you throw the ball And then they cut that split screen You see his face Or her face Or wherever you pick

[00:04:50] And then it's like Oh is it going to hit it? Yes You know Like that reaction shot is key Even Super Bowling on Super Nintendo Had that reaction You know That was always like the point of it Yeah This dude This dude's face goes full on Looney Tunes It's just like When you start the game up He's like You see his face pop up He's like Hey let's bow Let's bow Yeah Let's bow Let's bow I did like that Yeah It was excellent I can't believe I'm going to say this But Nestor's Funky Bowling

[00:05:20] Is probably more well known Than this game And you can see where that game got this from It definitely got it from games like Lee Bowling At that point Nestor's Funky Bowling Are you seriously looking this up while we're It's for Virtual Boy you dick Don't know what that is I'm sorry I don't know why I was so mean about that It's okay No I don't know what Nestor's Funky Bowling is I was Oh man No like

[00:05:49] You could have just like let the audience believe That you knew what I was talking about You were just like Hmm Yeah Nestor's Funky Bowling With like loud typing sound Was I typing real loud? No it wasn't But it was just like I'm just imagining like Clickety clackety clack Oh my god I um There's like a couple other extra modes Like I don't know if you tried like Flash Mode Or Strike 90 or whatever They're fun They're a little They're interesting But they don't add a whole lot

[00:06:18] For the most part This game is pretty basic Yeah Yeah And like the Even just like a regular bowling alley It's got the cool Like um Animations that would come up on screen When you get a Spare Or Strike Or Gutter Ball Like when you get a gutter ball The fucking um I forget if it's the I think it's the ball That gets hit by a truck Or something Yeah it's the ball That gets hit by a truck Or like It'll fucking fall off The top of a fucking Skyscraper And like Plum it to the ground

[00:06:48] Or like if you get a strike It'll just be like Strike And like gigantic stone letters Yeah I love those Those animations are very cool That's That's the bowling alley experience I think that's why Cause you know how it is Like how the crappy CGI graphics Have like never changed At the bowling alley You know They keep them that way On purpose Because it's some sort of charm I think people Expect that When they go bowling now Which is why You know Obviously this game Understands that So God the graphics

[00:07:17] Are so bad When I was a kid It was just like If you got like If you got a turkey Like the three strikes In a row It was just like Here's a little Shitty turkey On the fucking Screen It was not It was not cool Like it is now It's in like the The Tamagotchi graphics It's just like Just like the It looked like It looked like Some sort of Apple 2 type shit That like That kind of graphics Yeah It was really ghetto But you know That's cool That's what we had Back then I love that And this is something

[00:07:47] You noted too I do like that You can play the whole Game of bowling On one credit Yep Like a lot of sports games At the Think about baseball stars That we talked about I think the first episode You have a timer And once you run out Once you play like Four minutes or something You have to put in Another quarter Like league bowling Let's you play the whole Ten frames Because it goes so fast It's like You may as well Let them play it You know Yeah dude And you can get like As many You can lose As much as you Fucking want And the game Will still be like

[00:08:17] Alright You gotta Get ten Keep going Yeah It's a very Generous game In that respect I You know I I gave it a B Initially Here in my notes I'm gonna up that I'm gonna say B plus For league bowling I think Hell yeah I gave it an A minus Cause I can't think of a single Bad thing about it It's just arcade bowling And it's just Mindless fun You just bowl man Yeah About as good

[00:08:46] It's going to the bowling alley What are we gonna play Next time Aaron Next time It's Blue's Journey Oh that's a doozy Okay see you next time Until next time Neo Geo go Make me a pizza