Pocket Bowling retrospective: Picking up a Virtual spare | Game Boy Works Color #004

Pocket Bowling retrospective: Picking up a Virtual spare | Game Boy Works Color #004

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Pocket Bowling (1998)
Duration: 9:07
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Virtual Boy Works ended on a slightly downbeat note with Virtual Bowling, a fine take on the 10-pin pastime by Athena that remains inaccessible to normal humans thanks to its alarming rarity and terrifyingly high price. Well, here's the happy twist coda: Pocket Bowling is a direct sequel to Virtual Bowling that carries forward many of the other game's core mechanics and design elements, but costs a LOT less and doesn't require a piece of fragile, hard-to-come-by equipment to enjoy. Sure, Game Boy Color can't support the immersive viewpoint and design of Virtual Bowling, but this captures the enjoyable core of the other game quite neatly. Let's hear it for small victories, eh?

PLUS:
Japan-only release for this episode: Warashi's Honkaku Shougi: Shougi Ou.



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