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Considering the fact that the Game Boy Color was brought out to add an exciting new Technicolor edge to your portable games playing, Pocket Bowling is awfully... orange. In fact, there's very little to the graphics at all. They perform a purpose, but the purple bowling ball is more like a hexagon than a circle and the pins look like cricket bats.

In fact, there's hardly anything to the game itself. I mean, you can't expect a Game Boy to fully recreate the feeling of ten pin bowling, but at least you'd expect a bit of a challenge, or a sense of competition. All you get with this game is frame after frame of pretty simple bowling. Choose your angle and power rating, and let the blocky ball bowl along, possibly hitting one or more pins.

You can choose a character, giving the effect that you're part of a gang for the tournament, but if you like this title, you're really all on your own.

Graphics 60%
Not good.

Sound 40%
It's making 'plonky noises'.

Playability 60%
Better than pulling hair out.

Lastability 60%
It passes five minutes.

Overall 52%
Below par bowling. Only for fanatics.