HyperBowl: From Sony Arcade to Windows XP Classic! An LGR Retrospective

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Published on June 3, 2025 9:50:01 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3-3dvgYt7c

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Hyperbowl is perhaps most known for being in the Windows XP Plus! Pack and Media Center Edition in the 2000s, but it first was a (literally) huge arcade game attraction created by Sony for use in the San Francisco Metreon Center in 1999. While I've never experienced that machine, I played a ton of it on PC! So let's look at each different home version, including the newer Unity Engine releases.

● LGR things elsewhere:
https://www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews
https://bsky.app/profile/lgr-yt.bsky.social

● Other pertinent links:
WWG PlayStation Store Video:    • The Forgotten Physical PlayStation Store &...  
HyperBowl Prelaunch Event:    • (REUPLOADED) HyperBowl Prelaunch  
Technicat: https://hyperbowl3d.com/
2022 Unity versions: https://github.com/technicat/hyperbowl/releases/tag/v1.0.0
Steam version: https://store.steampowered.com/app/847530/HyperBowl/
iPhone/iPad port: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hyperbowl/id344209253

● Background music licensed from Epidemic Sound:
http://www.epidemicsound.com/

00:00 heck yes Hyperbowl
01:14 Plus! for Windows XP
02:06 Sony Arcade Edition
05:04 home versions for PC
05:42 installation issues
06:19 2001 Arcade Edition
07:28 main gameplay bits
12:54 Unity remakes!
14:00 2009 version
16:30 2022 Github/Steam version
19:33 Apple iOS version
20:21 final thoughts

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