Elf bowing games

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Elf Bowling Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Hitting an elf down with the bowling ball will bruise them and leave them bleeding, the depiction mostly comical even when the machine that resets the pins pulls off the head of an elf by accident. To bowl in Elf Bowling only requires pressing either the space bar or clicking with your mouse, the path of your ball determined by a row of arrows that light up in sequence from left to right and back again over and over. With incredible regularity this will clear all the elves in the set, making the challenge of the game about just doing this consistently.

That does not, however, make the bowling any better, and Elf Bowling actually includes some deliberate attempts to prevent enjoying it purely as a bowling game. Perhaps the most egregious feature of Elf Bowling is that no matter how perfectly you click the mouse 10 to 20 times, it is impossible to get a perfect game. This is because there is an elf who will randomly sidestep a ball coming towards him to deliberately deny you a point.

The elf bowling pins have a few problems besides cheekiness though. While it is possible to knock an elf into one adjacent to him, if you ever get a split, there is no degree of fancy aiming that will allow you to pick up the spare.

Most elves will just rise up and drop flat after they get hit, and outside of bowling the basically guaranteed strikes, it can be hard to measure what determines how many elves will topple.

The elves even seem to ever so lightly shift left and right while standing in place so it is possible they are moving to disrupt your aim. The elves only really have enough jokes to fill a single ten frame game, and the bare bones bowling is already designed to not really support anything but clicking at the designated times where a strike is almost guaranteed. A BAD rating. While the jokes, even if more abundant, were pretty much doomed to inevitably repeat themselves and lose their charm, Elf Bowling could have still been at least decent if there was more going on than timed clicks.

Released for free to advertise a website, its simple nature as a desktop amusement caused it to spread with such fervor that rumors arose it was some form of computer virus, but what Elf Bowling truly is is an all too simple bowling game that tries to make you smile with its juvenile humor.

Elf Bowling delivers its set up in a rhyming poem on the start-up screen, the overworked elves of the North Pole banding together to go on strike. The Elf Toy Makers Union refuses to make Christmas toys anymore, so Santa Claus decides the best way to deal with the strike is to go bowling with elves instead of pins. Somehow getting them onto his icy bowling lane, Santa plays a traditional ten frame game of ten pin bowling, the elves for the most part quite nicely staying in their places as you hurl a bowling ball their way.

Hitting an elf down with the bowling ball will bruise them and leave them bleeding, the depiction mostly comical even when the machine that resets the pins pulls off the head of an elf by accident.

To bowl in Elf Bowling only requires pressing either the space bar or clicking with your mouse, the path of your ball determined by a row of arrows that light up in sequence from left to right and back again over and over. With incredible regularity this will clear all the elves in the set, making the challenge of the game about just doing this consistently. That does not, however, make the bowling any better, and Elf Bowling actually includes some deliberate attempts to prevent enjoying it purely as a bowling game.

Perhaps the most egregious feature of Elf Bowling is that no matter how perfectly you click the mouse 10 to 20 times, it is impossible to get a perfect game. This is because there is an elf who will randomly sidestep a ball coming towards him to deliberately deny you a point.