Keep your opponents on their sun-kissed toes with dirty tricks like oil slicks, sand paper and Magnets.From cruise ships to volcanic cliffs, Elf Bowling Hawaiian Vacation will take you on a crazy bowling adventure through exotic locales with the zaniest characters aroundKey Features:- 10 characters and 19 bowling balls to choose from- Four crazy play modes- Cool power-ups and dirty tricks to collect on each lane- Five single player modes and three multiplayer modes- All-new insults and one-liners from those crazy elves.The end result for them will always be the same though, as theyre to be left broken and bruised by the impact of your comparatively huge bowling ball.
I should honestly just induct every one of them ever made to the Bad Game Hall of Fame all at once, and save myself the chore of having to write about any of them individually. But I reckon thats not really in the spirit of the site here, is it No, it feels like my duty is to take on the worst of them one-by-one on an annual basis, until such time as the abolition of all December holidays or the heat death of the universe. Well, as long as were in it for the long haul here, I may as well get what is largely considered to be the worst of the worst out of the way nice and early. I may as well mention right upfront that they are almost identically the same game, with only minimal differences in terms of presentation between them. ![]() Oh, and to top it all off; the current owner to the Elf Bowling trademark once waged a Wikipedia edit war to condemn the unauthorized releases of these games a trademark he only owns because his company bought the rights second-hand for themselves, right out from under the original creators noses. You know, I really thought I was just picking out an easy little game for myself this month at first I seriously had no idea what I was getting myself into. But now that I know what I know, I feel obligated to share it with the rest of the world. So, here we go folks: Its time to thoroughly examine the circumstances and history behind a novelty Flash game from the late 90s, and to dissect its cheap cash-in of a cartridge conversion. That said, larger in this sense still refers to a team that consisted of a grand total of forty employees, 2 so were not exactly talking about a Fortune 500 company here. And in the early, unintuitive days of the world wide web, getting the word out about a small business was still something like a struggle. The classic tactics of banner ads and email spamvertising campaigns were never really all that practical a means of promotion to begin with. So to stand out, youd really need to do something special something that would both grab folks attention and manage to keep it too. And wouldnt you believe it, but it worked wonders for them According to their metrics, this method for advertising resulted in a 23 click-through rate versus the estimated average one-half of one percent of those traditional banner ads. But perhaps the most brilliant part of this strategy was the distribution method, which counted on the players themselves to handle the actual effort of spreading the word. By NStorm compressing their games to sizes of roughly 1MB and packaging them as conveniently standalone executable files, they would fit nicely in the attachments of most e-mail services, allowing them to be sent and shared with ease. With their simple games capable of running on the lowest of specs, they made for ideal workplace distractions in the era of cubicle farms and IBM PC compatibles. But the best was yet to come for the small Texas studio, with one title in particular poised to launch them into the stratosphere: November 12th, 1999 would mark the release of Elf Bowling. By December, it would firmly establish itself as one of the most popular PC games of all time in its time, with estimates that the game was being played 900 times per second. Shortly after being informed of the situation by Mrs. Claus, jolly ol Saint Nick decides to skip the worker negotiations and get right to the part where he crushes the dissent. By which I mean, he literally takes to setting the elves up as live bowling pins, and breaks their bones with his bowling ball, leaving them as bloodied bodies on his icy makeshift lane. Support your local union, folks) Granted, I dont really believe this goofy gag game should be taken as genuine political statement, but it sure is wild to look back on just how casually a story concept like this was accepted back in the day. And boy howdy, NStorm sure made the most of this juvenile little premise, by giving the elves a variety of animations and interactions to be played out on-screen. In a given round, the pinsetter mechanism might yank the head off of one of the elves, leaving them spewing a fountain of blood from their neck. In the next, you may see the elves break into an impromptu dance while singing Ice Ice Baby with the word Elf in place of Ice. Sometimes one of the hapless workers might fart, and the rest of his peers will laugh at him until he goes red in the face.
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