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Bowling Alley

  1. Game infos
  2. Sound
  3. Driver
  4. Inputs
  5. Controls
  6. Display
  7. Dipswitchs
  8. Roms list
  9. Chips list
  10. Categories
  11. MAMEinfo
  12. History
  13. High scores
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Game infos

Description Bowling Alley
Name bowler
Manufacturer Midway
Year 1978
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 4P alt
Added to MAME .034b01
Romset size 10 KB
Romset file 5 files
Romset zip 7 B
Language English
Evaluation 10 to 20 (Horrible)
Genre Sports

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

Driver infos

Driver status imperfect
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound imperfect
Driver graphic good
Driver cocktail
Driver protection
Driver savestate yes

Inputs infos

Input service no
Input tilt no
Input players 1
Input buttons
Input coins 1

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
trackball 0 255 10 10 yes

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 90 no 260 224 59.541985 4992000 320 0 260 262 0 224

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade d.cpu 2048 e7dbc9d9 05049a69ee588de85db86df188e7670778b77e90 maincpu 4000 good no
arcade e.cpu 2048 4da65a40 7795d59870fa722da89888e72152145662554080 maincpu 1800 good no
arcade f.cpu 2048 ba8a0bfa bb017ddac58d031b249596b70ab1068cd1bad499 maincpu 1000 good no
arcade g.cpu 2048 ca26d8b4 cf18991cde8044a961cf556f18c6eb60a7ade595 maincpu 800 good no
arcade h.cpu 2048 74c29b93 9cbd5b7b8a4c889406b6bc065360f74c036320b2 maincpu 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
8080 maincpu cpu 1996800
DISCRETE discrete audio
Speaker mono audio

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.34b1 [Al Kossow]


Artwork available


TODO:

* Complete sound


WIP:

- 0.180: ImJezze fixed games with off-screen backdrop artworks (e.g. Atari Football and Bowling Alley) that white out the screen when you enable HLSL.

- 7th December 2009: Mr. Do - Some time ago, I asked Dan at The Arcade Flyer Archive to send me a hi-res scan of Midway's Bowling Alley. I finally got around to using it, so the game's artwork now has lamps like it should. Special thanks to Twisty for helping identify the font.

- 0.114: Derrick Renaud emulated foul sound in Bowling Alley. Added Discrete sound.

- 28th January 2007: Mr. Do - Zsolt hooked up the lamps for Midway Bowling Alley. I have some nice reference material for Midway Bowling.

- 0.111u4: Zsolt Vasvari and Derrick Renaud added lamp outputs to Bowling Alley. Changed 8080 CPU1 clock speed to 1996800 Hz and visible area to 224x256. Changed description to 'Bowling Alley'.

- 0.103u3: Bob Seidel improved dipswitches for '4 Player Bowling Alley'. Added dipswitches 'Demo Sounds', 'Game Time', 'Difficulty' and 'Cabinet.

- 0.61: Changed visible area to 224x280.

- 6th May 2002: Zsolt Vasvari added the off screen bonus display to 4 Player Bowling in the 8080bw driver.

- 0.37b12: Changed description to '4 Player Bowling Alley'.

- 0.36: Added 3x 'Unknown' dipswitch.

- 0.34b1: Al Kossow added '4 Player Bowling' (Midway 1978).

- 26th February 1998: Kevin Klopp dumped Bowling Alley. A Midway game with large trackball.


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* Laser


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History


Arcade Video game published 41 years ago:

4 Player Bowling Alley (c) 1978 Midway.

An old black and white bowling game for up to 4 players.

- TECHNICAL -

Upright cabinet
Midway Model No. 730

Cabinet dimensions : 72.5inch high x 28.5inch deep x 38.5inch wide

Main CPU : Intel 8080 (@ 1.9968 Mhz)
Discrete circuitry

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 280 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 2

Players : 4
Control : trackball
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

4 Player Bowling Alley was released in April 1979.

Also released as a Cocktail Table model: "4 Player Bowling Alley [Cocktail Table model]".

One of Midway's myriad bowling games, this was the first that featured the popular 'Flash' variation with its timing-based scoring scheme. To support this, an external display was used to highlight the appropriate section of the score scheme.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=18&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01



mode: flash

bravocorazon____________________8.410
hulkiii_________________________2.915


mode: regulation

bravocorazon______________________300
sawys_____________________________278
hulkiii___________________________235