This may be the future of bowling. It's very difficult for bowling centers to stay in business these days. A large bowling alley has less overhead per lane, but of course that means a lot of people have to travel far to go bowling, sigh.
Heh-I have considered scoring a Wii as a source of exercise in the winter, though a sport like tennis would probably do better for aerobic exercise.
Come to think of it, I had a 200+ average on Atari 2600's bowling cartridge. It was perhaps the most realistic bowling game of its era, simply because the bowler's clothes strobed in rainbow colors whenever you scored a strike or spare, just like in real bowling.
It's weird, because just from looking at the lanes I thought that bowling there would be like bowling in the middle of the Bonneville Salt Flats. I expected to be completely distracted by the entire universe lurking in my peripheral vision. But when I toss the ball I'm so focused on the little arrows about 20 feet down the lane that I don't even notice the yawning void on either side of me.
Check out the photo of the one-room, 116-lane house in Japan. It looks like the infinite regression you see when looking into a mirror facing another mirror. (Note also the English: "116 Rane.")
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Come to think of it, I had a 200+ average on Atari 2600's bowling cartridge. It was perhaps the most realistic bowling game of its era, simply because the bowler's clothes strobed in rainbow colors whenever you scored a strike or spare, just like in real bowling.
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