The North American bowling game uses a mascot that was only known in North America: Nester from the Nintendo Power magazine. While the game could really have used any cartoon character, it does add a lot of charm to the game. After you bowl, you get presented with a split screen with the pins on the bottom and Nester’s (or his sister’s) reaction on the top, giving the game a bit of personality. On top of this, it also has plenty of the fun animations you get from bowling alleys for splits, misses and strikes.

As a bowling game, it functions quite well. It’s slightly simpler than Virtual Bowling, with no accuracy setting, but the pins react in a much more realistic way. This, combined with the presentation, makes it quite enjoyable.

Fun

Remake or remaster?

There’s plenty of bowling games.