Elf Bowling

"Elf Bowling" by NStorm is a computer game released in 1999 in which the player, as Santa Claus, attempts to knock down elves who are arranged like bowling pins. [ [http://www.nstorm.com/games/game_detail.asp?game_id=2 Elf Bowling] "NStorm.com"]

Overview

In Elf Bowling, Santa Claus gets revenge on his striking elf employees by using them as bowling pins.

During the game, the elves say 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 that you can "hit" with your bowling ball if you press the right buttons, a frog wearing a Santa hat hopping back and forth across the player's field of vision (resembling Kalvin Kroaker from frogapult also made by Nstorm) if you hit him with the bowling ball his carcass is hauled away from the screen by one of the birds from frogapult, a white rabbit that also jumps and poops across the bowling lane, the elves mooning Santa (asking "who's your daddy" as they do it). 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". One of the elves randomly moons the bowler (Santa).

The elves can also randomly move out of the way of the ball, and one elf can be decapitated by the pin setter.

There is also a movie entitled "Elf Bowling: The Movie" that came out straight to DVD October 02, 2007.

Elf Bowling 2

The Shuffleboard Game Sequel to Nstorm's original game "Elf Bowling"

ynopsis

In the sequel to "Elf Bowling", the elves return, with even more wacky humor, as they attempt to go on an island vacation with old Kringle. Dingle Kringle (a failure as a used ice salesman) is Santa's elder brother. The brothers make a double-or-nothing wager in a game of shuffle board. Winner; Gets the title of "Father Christmas", the loser: is unemployed. Of course, the elves are used as pucks.

Gameplay and Scoring

By pulling on the back of the elf's "thong", players power up, take aim, and SNAP them forward. The Elf then slides onto either the one, two or three hundred area's. In addition, at the very edge of the board (apparently unmarked) is a 400pt area.

The boat rocks to and fro more and more frequently through each of the three progressing rounds. If the elves are accidentally shot over the side edges, either by misfire, or because the tilt of the ship has guided them there, the elves will let out a cry and disappear to a humorous crashing noise.

In addition, if they are shot off of the back, a shark will seize them in their jaws as the elf cries "NO!".

Jokes of Elf Bowling 2

Some of the newer jokes include the elf appearing with a Hawaiian lei around his neck, while declaring "Hey Kringle, I got "laid"!" Likewise, they can announce "Hey Kringle, I got "crabs"!" while displaying a pair of crabs in their hands.

For a song and dance, they sing "Who let the Elves out? ("Booya! Booya!")" in a mock version of the song "Who let the Dogs out?" by the Baha Men.

The insults hurled by elves in protest to a player's bad moves (like the game's predecessor, where elves shouted a coment about santa's "balls") are even less witty, such as yelling "loser!" and making a farting noise.

Other Elf Bowling Games

To date, there have been six additions 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 an iceberg, risk having your elves eaten by sharks or crushed by a falling Moai (Easter Island monolith). The objective of this game was to score more points than Santa's brother Dingle Kringle, who had "made an unmentionable wager regarding Mrs. Kringle" and who would take over Christmas if Santa lost.
*Elf Bowling 3 involved slinging elves in Mrs. Kringle's pink bra 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. You could also play as a variety of characters, including Santa, Dingle, and Mrs. Kringle.
*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.
*Elf Bowling 7 1/7 : A small history about bowling at Christmas.
*Elf Bowling Hawaiian Vacation : Elf Bowling in exotic places.

Elf Bowling 1 & 2

- The first two "Elf Bowling" games were put in a pack that was called "Elf Bowling 1 & 2". It was released for Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance. Due to poor graphics, crude audio, horrible controls, and no extras, the pack was universally panned by critics and fans alike. It remains as GameSpot and Metacritic's second lowest-scoring game, getting an abysmal 1.4 out out 10, just above Superman 64 (1.3); with the average score on Metacritic a 12 out of 100.

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*imdb title|id=0460811|title=Elf Bowling: The Movie