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Elf Bowling is a series of freeware bowling games for PC. The original Elf Bowling was originally released in 1998 by NStorm for PC, with the second game being released in 2000. A compilation of the first two games called Elf Bowling 1 & 2 was developed by Black Lantern Software, published by Ignition Entertainment, and released in 2005 for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS, to notorious negative reception.

The first game has you play as Santa Claus. Santa is apparently quite the bowler, and he is quite willing to use those whiny, snickering, union elves as bowling pins.

The second game has Santa and the Elves on a cruise ship heading to an island adventure. Santa's good-for-nothing brother Dingle Kringle joins up with them. This game is a strange shuffleboard tournament, and the elves are being used as the pucks.

A Direct-to-Videomovie based on the games, called Elf Bowling the Movie: The Great North Pole Elf Strike was released in 2007. No, really.

The game series contains examples of:

• Added Alliterative Appeal: The elves will hold a sign that says, 'Santa Sux!'
• Bad Santa: The player character, in a way.
• Eenie, Meenie, Miny Moai: In the second game, a giant moai head will, on rare occasions, drop in and leave the active player's elf Squashed Flat, before saying 'Hi there,' and getting lifted away.
• Fake Difficulty: In the first game, on occasion, the frontmost elf in the alley may randomly sidestep the bowling ball as it comes at him. This can deny the player a strike or a spare.
• I Shall Taunt You:
  • The elves do this, constantly.
  • Surprisingly averted on occasion, such as in the second game, where landing an elf in a high-scoring spot on the deck will cause the elf in question to say 'That was a good one!'

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• Is That the Best You Can Do?: If you fail to take out all ten elves with two balls, one of them will say 'Is that all the balls you got, Santa?'
• Kick the Son of a Bitch: In the third game, you can knock out Dingle for a full round with a thrown elf as he attempts to ice up a landing target.
• Mass 'Oh, Crap!': The elves in the first game do this every time a ball is rolled at them. They do not, however, actually flee.
• Mooning: The elves will do this to Santa after a game is finished, or even in the middle of a frame.
• Off with His Head!: In the first game, the head-grasping mechanism used to set the elves into place will occasionally fail with one of them, fruitlessly tugging a few times before departing with the elf's head. Somehow, it reattaches when the elf is picked up again.
• Sequel Goes Foreign: The first game is set at the North Pole; the second game is set on a tropical cruise.
• Serial Escalation: In the second game, the weather conditions rocking the deck side to side escalate from relative calm up to 'Hurricane NStorm' with each successive round.
• Shout-Out: The elves will sometimes sing 'Elf, elf, baby!' after a game.
• Third Is 3D: Elf Bowling 3 went beyond the 2-D hijinks of the first two games to have the player catapulting elves at a series of distant targets using a comically oversized bra.
• Toilet Humor:
  • A reindeer will sometimes walk along the alley and defecate on it, not to mention the elves mooning.
  • In the first game, Elliott the elf is propelled into the air by the force of his own flatulence. Then the surrounding elves comment on it, laugh at him, and hold their noses until the ball comes at them.
  • In the second game, occasionally an elf that comes to a stop will break wind, exclaim 'Clear the deck!', and then laugh.
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: This is more or less the premise.
  • In the first game, it is possible to run over a frog or rabbit wandering onto the alleyway, if the bowl is timed and aimed right. This has no effect on the score. The player can also knock out the aforementioned visiting reindeer with a gutterball at the extreme end of the range closest to where the deer is standing, sending the ball flying out of the gutter onto the reindeer's head. Needless to say, this does involve losing part of one's score.
  • In the second game, it is virtually encouraged to knock opposing elves off of the deck to drop the opponent's score. Going off the sides is not too bad, as the elves simply land on a lower deck, but going off of the aft end of the deck knocks them straight into the jaws of a waiting shark.
  • In the third game, a thrown elf can knock out a polar bear walking to or from a landing target. You still lose the elf, but the bear cannot consume any further elves for the rest of the round.
• Wardrobe Malfunction: In the second game, on occasion, an elf being lifted up from the party going on belowdecks will have his swimsuit catch on a piece of the mechanism and snap, leaving a pixelated blur in its place. It doesn't last long, though, as the swimsuit reappears for the player to use in flinging the elf down the deck.
• Xtreme Kool Letterz: The elves will hold up a sign that says, 'Santa Sux!' as opposed to 'Santa Sucks!'.

The Movie contains examples of:

• Artistic License – History: There's a Time Passes Montage claiming that Santa and Dingle came to the North Pole in the 600s. However, the era seems far more similar to The Golden Age of Piracy.
• Big Bad: Dingle, Santa's evil brother who wants to overthrow him.
• Cain and Abel: Santa is the good brother, Dingle is the evil, backstabbing one.
• Dastardly Whiplash: Dingle is a lanky man with a long, black mustache and a sinister cackle who is very open about being evil. Taken to the extreme in his song 'I Love a Mutiny,' which is in the style of a vaudeville show, and has Dingle wear a fitting outfit, complete with black top hat.
• Getting Crap Past the Radar: A pretty disturbing example. After the elves are freed from Dingle's hypnosis, Candle asks why his underwear is on backwards. That's right; a date rape joke in a kid's movie.
• Harmless Freezing: Santa and Dingle get frozen in blocks of ice after falling off their ship. After Lex melts the ice, they continue their fight like nothing happened.
• In Name Only: It has elves and bowling, but aside from that, there's too many differences between the game and the movie for this to be considered a true adaptation.
• Mass Hypnosis: After relocating to Fiji, Dingle brainwashes all the elves aside from Lex into making toys in a sweatshop.
• The Movie: Elf Bowling the Movie: The Great North Pole Elf Strike.
• Toilet Humour: Santa asks his pirate crew who pooped in the peanut barrel.
  Santa: I have a teensy question for yers... WHO POOPED IN THE PEANUT BARREL?!
• Rump Roast: Near the beginning, Lex sets the seat of Santa's pants on fire to stop the fight between him and Dingle.
• Talk Like a Pirate: Santa, even after he gives up piracy.
• Take That!: While on their plane ride to Fiji, the elves boo when they hear one of the in-flight movies is going to be Grizzly Adams.
• Villain Song: Dingle gets two, 'I Love a Mutiny' and 'Slavery Makes the World Go Round'.

Reviewed by Yuri Storchak

Bowling simulation. An evil Dingle has persuaded the elves to go on strike and Santa needs your help to win back control of Christmas. Only you can show those disturbing creatures, what the real strike is. There are four festive game modes: Story, Multiplayer, Single Player and VS Computer. Story Mode offers you to play in three original places in order to defeat Dingle and calm down striking elves. Multiplayer Mode allows you to compete against a friend playing on the same computer. If you choose Single Player Mode, be ready to compete with the elves, trying to achieve maximum score. And finally, VS Computer Mode offers you to select one of computer opponents with various skill levels and enjoy straight-out bowling. It should be mentioned that each game mode is subdivided into three types of play: Standard, Set of Bonuses and No Bonuses. Standard type means that you pick up random bonuses from the line. Set of Bonuses means that you get 5 random bonuses and your opponent get 5 dirty tricks that may be used against you. And No Bonuses play is for experienced players; here you play classic bowing with no bonuses or dirty tricks.
Elf Bowling 7 1/7: The Last Insult is an amusing bowling game that designed for the holiday season. It features Christmas-style graphics, diverse sound effects and cheerful but repetitive music. Graphics is colorful; locations and characters look humorous that helps to create merry atmosphere of Christmas. The elves are the pins, providing their own special, colorful commentaries during game play. One of the most prominent features is set of bonuses, which are divided into power-ups and dirty tricks. Your opponent may select one of the dirty tricks before every throw to bother you hit the target, after that you may choose one of the power-ups. I would like to point out that the game contains tons of avatars, trophies and balls that make it really many sided and much interesting.

Offline gameplay: 1-2 players Multiplayer: No

Publisher: Mumbo Jumbo ESRB Ratio: Everyone

Extras and features: Four Exciting Game Modes Three Original Bowling Lines 15 Unique Trophies 8 Striking Bonuses and 11 Dirty Tricks 10 Amusing Avatars and 19 Ball Types

Drawbacks: Repetitive music

Requirements: OS: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista Memory: 256 MB DirectX: 8.1 or later CPU: P2 700 Video: 32MB 3d DirectX 8.1 Compatible Video Card

Free 1999 Elf Bowling Game

Alternative names: Efl Bowling 7 1/7: The Last Insult, Elf Bolwing 7 1/7: The Last Insult, Elf Bowling Seven 1/7: The Last Insult

Game Elf Bowling 1 & 2