Bowling

Bowling

Bowling being selected from the main menu of Wii Sports

Details
First game	Wii Sports
Latest game	Nintendo Switch Sports
Other game(s)	Wii Sports Club
Number of players	1-4
Peripherals needed	None
Real-world equivalent	Bowling

Bowling is one of five sports in Wii Sports and Wii Sports Club, in addition to being one of several sports for Wii Sports Resort and Nintendo Switch Sports. The object of the game is to use the bowling ball to knock over as many pins as possible in your designated lane with two rolls, by rolling the ball along the wooden floor of the lane. The rules are very similar to the real-life game ten-pin bowling, only slightly simplified.

Gameplay

Wii Sports

There are 10 rounds, with 2 bowls per round. To throw the bowling ball, the player presses B while swinging the remote up, and then releases it. Before the player throws, they can adjust the angle and positioning of the ball. Pressing Down on the D-Pad changes between angle and left/right adjustment, and pressing Left and Right adjusts them. Pressing Up zooms the screen in to get a closer look at the pins, although attempting to throw will zoom the screen back out. Similar to real bowling, if the player takes 2 bowls to knock over all the pins, they get a spare. If the player knocks over all 10 pins on the first bowl of a turn, they get a strike, and do not get a second bowl on that turn. The exception to this is the last turn, where the pins will reset after a strike, and the player can go again. If the player gets strikes consecutively, they have different names. The names are as follows:

• Strike
• Double
• Turkey
• Fourth
• Fifth
• Six-Pack
• Seven-Pack
• Eight in a row
• Nine in a row
• Ten in a row
• Eleven in a row
• Perfect

The maximum possible score is 300. The maximum possible bowling skill is 2213. Other Miis on the system, whether default Miis, player-created Miis, or Miis from the Mii Parade, spectate the game from the audience, and sometimes bowl themselves in other bowling lanes. By default, player 1's ball is Blue, player 2's ball is Pink, player 3's ball is Green, and player 4's ball is Gold. However, the color of bowling ball can be selected by holding the D-Pad before the game starts.

Nintendo Switch Sports

Bowling icon in Nintendo Switch Sports

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As such, information in this article may be of a speculative nature. If adding content, please make sure to reference it. No release date has been specified.

It is currently unknown how the sport will be played in Nintendo Switch Sports other than the fact that like the rest of the game, it will feature motion controls and 1v1, 2v2, and online modes.

Gallery

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  A strike

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  A spare

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  An unskilled player's scorecard

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  The ball rolls down the lane

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  Overview of the lanes and the player's skill

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  A player attempts to get points from the wrong lane

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  Pins get knocked over

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  The intro cutscene

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  Introduction to the player's turn

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  User interface before a bowl

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  A bowler bowls the bowling ball down the bowling lane

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  The ball is thrown backwards

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  The four colors of the bowling ball

Trivia

• There are several easter eggs in Wii Sports:
  • If the player swings the bowling ball backwards, the audience spins around and laughs.
  • If the bowling ball is thrown far enough to one side, it goes into the adjacent lane, and the audience will laugh. The ball will not knock over the pins in that lane.
  • Miis with pro skill will have their ball decorated with stars.

References

Nintendo Switch Sports