Elf Bowling

Its always been a holiday tradition to play Elf Bowling. It goes way back to 1999, when I was working at the Nuke. Our friend Bill Coyer, introduced it to us back then and generally around this time, it would be sent once again in an email to the group of us and we'd all play and laugh at the insults and jokes. If you don't know what Elf Bowling is, well, a player, Santa Claus, attempts to knock down elves who are arranged like bowling pins. Simple as that... hehehehehehe.


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 reindeer that walk 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 and if you hit him with the bowling ball, his carcass is hauled away from the screen. A white rabbit 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." The elves can also randomly move out of the way of the ball, and one elf can be decapitated by the pin setter. It's a rather fun game. :) And I miss it. Oh well. Its the memories that count. Good times.