Local Fox News Affiliate KDFW Dallas Fort Worth did an interview with Dan Ferguson and Mike Bileinski after they sold their company to Vectrix Business Solutions.
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According to Media Metrix, among the 54 million people playing PC games in the month of December 2000, Elf Bowling was the game to hit the top 10 with 7.6 million players that was not bundled with Windows.
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(In 1999, EXE files could be attached to emails as there was no protective software to remove an EXE at the time.) Direct Marketing News did an article on the original developers - Direct Marketing News Article. The game was an EXE file and was easily distributed as an attachment to emails. The game became an internet sensation in 1999 when people originally thought it was a computer virus. The game was originally created as promotional marketing content by Dan Ferguson and Mike Bielinski, both co-founders of the game studio NVision Design. The elves can also randomly move out of the way of the ball, and one elf can be decapitated by the pinsetter. Both during the game and after a game finishes, the elves do a dance, shouting "Elf elf, baby!" in reference to Vanilla Ice's song " Ice Ice Baby". The elves moon Santa (asking "who's your daddy" as they do it). A white rabbit also jumps and defecates across the bowling lane. If one hits the frog with the bowling ball, his body is hauled away from the screen by a bird from Frogapult. Other potential distractions for the user are a Reindeer that walks up along the bowling lane that can be "hit" with the bowling ball if the arrow is positioned to the far left, and 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). In Elf Bowling, the elves of Santa's Workshop are on strike due to overwork from the huge demand for Christmas toys, so Santa Claus has decided to whip them into shape by using them as bowling pins.ĭuring 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. A later release of the game, by Ignition Entertainment, was released on the Nintendo handheld consoles Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance, and received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics. The player, as Santa Claus, attempts to knock down elves who are arranged like bowling pins.
Ignition Entertainment ( Elf Bowling 1 & 2)Įlf Bowling is a bowling video game developed by NStorm and released in 1998. A screencap of the game, with elf pins and a Christmas-themed frog hopping on the icy lane.
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