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Game 2 of the Erickson Sports Nintendo Wii Bowling Championship

If you caught the first game, then you know what to expect from this video: more senior citizens in he bowling match of their lives. At least, that's how they treat it, as many teams across this great nation throw down for the ultimate prize of glory and respect. There is one thing we can definitel...

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Senior citizens see who's the best of the best in Wii Sports: Bowling [update 1]

We love to see people, regardless of their age, enjoy gaming. We even love the spirit of competition. Heck, we love lots of things these days. So, with that in mind, we bring forth this video of the first game being played in the First Annual Erickson Sports Nintendo Wii Bowling Championship. And,...

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Lego robot designed to bowl perfect game, actually does

Maybe we're the only ones who fear a robot uprising and the enslavement of all humanity at the cold, metallic hands of cruel, unfeeling robotic overlords? No? Well, then why are people dying to build robots that perform human tasks? Bueller? And, in case you didn't follow all of that, the embedded ...

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PC Magazine salutes Wii Sports: Bowling, but sees adverse health effects long-term

Columnist John C. Dvorak has some very positive things to say about Nintendo's Wii console, namely its bundled game Wii Sports. Actually, he's very impressed by Wii Sports: Bowling, to be precise. Being a man with a rather illustrious bowling past, he found the game to be dead-on as far as realistic...

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That didn't take long: documentation of perfect power throw?

After posting about an impressive run at Wii Sports: Bowling's power throw mini-game, we were sent a link to someone who supposedly got a perfect score in said mini-game. We say supposedly because we PLAYED it, we know how difficult it is to get nothing but strikes in this mini-game. Also, lacking ...

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Impressive Wii Sports: Bowling power throw demonstration

For the uninformed, the power throw mini-game is a challenge set in Wii Sports: Bowling where the player must go through ten frames of action where the number of pins steadily increases from ten in the first frame, to a gigantic 91 pins in frame ten. This means that, given consecutive strikes, the ...

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Wiimote busts a cap in TV set

With the validity of the above image in question, we're hard-pressed to believe it ourselves. While we know full well how heated Wii Sports: Bowling can get, we've never been so aggressive in our pursuit of bowling perfection as to whip the Wiimote with so much force it could even be conceivable th...

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Wii Sports: Bowling controls taken for a ride

In the embedded video, which is brought to us courtesy of Epileptic Gaming in an attempt to debunk statements made by IGN claiming that "skill is a major factor and if you're good, you will bowl strikes; if you're not so good, you'll be much more prone to hit the gutter." The video proves that IGN ...

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Improving one's self in Wii Sports: Bowling

Joystiq's own Kyle Orland sat down with the Wii and looked to test out the learning curve. In choosing Wii Sports: Bowling, he looked to see if Nintendo's motion-control scheme was as intuitive and easy to use as the company had marketed. So how does one accomplish this? By playing a lot of Wii. Go...

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