Elf Bowling: "Bigger Than Quake or Doom!"

[@kizmetmars]

Did you know you can kill the reindeer with a gutter ball? Blew my mind when I first did it.

[@LGR]

I remember being able to do that in one version, but somehow couldn't make it happen with the original executable. EDIT: the CTRL+D cheat worked! Thanks!

[@kizmetmars]

Mmm, maybe it was a later version? I can't remember exactly how it was done. I think it had to be close to the edge, but not too close. I'm going to look it up. Edit: There's some information about it, no videos. One says it has to be the last arrow. Another source says you can cheat it out with ctrl + D.

[@matani2001]

Tried it with both versions, in the one that was added to the Super Elf Bowling collection (Which removed refrences to Nvision), and the original executable. It worked in both. You just need to press space when the last arrow is lit, and it will hit the reindeer. Ctrl+D seems to activate a mode where you get a gutterball no matter where you press...

[@kizmetmars]

***** Awesome, thanks!

[@NemtYT]

I remember doing this with a special key combo. I don't remember being able to hit the reindeer with a normal shot, no matter where it's aimed.

[@K12machinima]

Nearly a decade later, I still wonder... I still question... I still writhe in my sleep... I wake up in cold sweats, and from seamless dreams, sometimes screaming... all from ONE question, that' I've yet to fully grasp in my adult years: "Is that all the balls you've got, Santa?"

[@indeimaus]

When is Christmas LGR getting his own channel?

[@rip_city_and_ptfc_fan]

Never lol

[@TheOnlyToblin]

INDEI? What the heck man? Been subbed to forever, but had no clue you're an LGR bro.

[@YoManRuLz1]

Elf Bowling is probably the first PC game I've ever seen. I must have been 4 years old visiting my aunt for christmas and someone was playing this on their mysterious computer thingy.

[@JaKeW138]

+Jeff J literally the story with me

[@benjaminpryse3802]

Yup

[@StimpyThe1]

Your christmas clone is ADORABLE! :D

[@manadrivexl]

What happens to your Christmas clones when the month is over? Do they return to the Christmasphere? Shrivel up and turn into ash like a vampire in sunlight?

[@LGR]

One of the great mysteries of our time.

[@MaskedGEEK]

Lazy Game Reviews I think in Clint's younger days he had more clones and were even more annoying. And as he said in the video that Nvision bought anything they could, they bought most of Clint's clones (obviously being younger they were smaller back then) from him. They were annoying in their office as well, so someone likely threw something heavy at them and someone else thought it was funny, and after 30 minutes of silly laughter made it into a game and lo, Elf Bowling was born. Unfortunately not all Clint Clones were bought so they still roam the earth stalking Clint every Christmas.

[@Stonehopper1067HMG]

I think they go back to there space ship that looks similar to a CompUSA store.

[@tristanmcfrosty2588]

1:58 "Summary: Elf Bowling 1 and 2 lets you bowl with elves. Twice." Lmao that's gold

[@ThoroughlyBaked]

Hey! The old intro.... with the Dr. Pepper. Nice!!

[@FooPanda]

DankTendencies Refreshing even!

[@Vojingamer]

*badum tss*

[@28Pluto]

I believe this is actually a newer intro that he made a few months back. It's like a remaster version of the old classic intro.

[@Vojingamer]

Well, it is

[@The8BitGuy]

Wow, I've surprisingly never heard of this game. But this review was one of my favorite LGRs.. it was very entertaining an educational!

[@LGR]

Glad to hear it, sir?

[@Andrew982_]

The 8-Bit Guy I have elf bowling

[@bunnyboyking5215]

The 8-Bit Guy 8 didn't hear about it until I saw Elf Bowling 1 & 2 on GamesRadar's worst games of all time list. But after that I forgot about it until I saw MrEnter's review of Elf Bowling The Movie.

[@sethfinley8378]

I just love your way of reviewing things.You just sound so professional. I remember putting KZbin up on my televison with one of your videos and my parents thought you were a legit televison show. I must agree, you do have that tone that all good televison reviewers have.

[@19simplyme93]

I love your reviews, even if I have never played the game. They're just entertaining.

[@LGR]

Thanks!

[@adiveler]

So this is the Angry Birds of last generation?

[@Greyspecies9999]

kind of.

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

It's the dark souls of the angry bird world

[@UltraThunderSurge]

Very few things capture the Christmas spirit as well as LGR's Christmas specials, you know as far as video game reviews go. Look forward to this every year, the perfect thing to sit down and enjoy for a few minutes on a December afternoon.

[@AlphaStarDX]

I gotta say I look forward to seeing the Clone every December, just to see how he finds and haunts you next. XD And always love seeing a childhood favorite any time of year. Thanks Clint! :D

[@LGR]

Haha, glad to hear it!

[@schadenfreudebuddha]

I like xmas clone better than real clint. so festive and enthusiastic in a not-at-all-creepy way. he's almost as great as duke clint. I wish I could be my own friends.

[@Yusuke_Denton]

The clone keeps getting dumber every year though. Must be genetic damage from over-cloning.

[@Yolligraphone]

LGR, I appreciate your impeccable grammar.

[@LGR]

thanx u 2

[@nicorkydude]

I literally clicked on this video in the hope that my Christmas cheer would be met with similar enthusiasm. I was not disappointed. Thank you also for the nugget of knowledge from the decade I was born in!

[@JackTheHatGuy]

I always love the intro skits you do this time of year. Looking forward to this year's Christmas reviews!

[@NerfPlayeR135]

I was born too late to experience the Elf Bowling craze, but I did end up playing a 1 hour timebomb version (remember when those were a thing?) of the seventh game when I was young.

[@kbwaterbug29]

I remember my grandparents had it on their computer and I played it all the time when I was a kid

[@SabrinasLaptop]

I keep rewatching this just for the intro!

[@kohowch]

Wow, going from your older videos to this surprised me. You've really improved your production values! And I thought your older videos were great already! Keep up the awesome vids :)

[@LGR]

Thank you!

[@RosePhoto1]

Yay, It's Christmas time at LGR!! A very enjoyable annual tradition. Thanks for all the great content.

[@digitaltos2696]

Oh my, the LGR christmas videos is my favourite tradition. Keep it up, you are as awesome as ever.

[@EngineeringVignettes]

Elf elf baby.... aaaaaa! The good ol days... kept the mother in law quiet for _hours_.

[@Pumpkinnight120]

I used to play the crap out of Elf Bowling. One of my all time favorite games.

[@DukeNukem2417]

Christmas Clint is hilarious as usual. Nice to see that he can follow you even if you move to another house....hell, a Christmas Clint game might be something worth playing, if anyone ever made it!

[@JS-gd1ko]

I've absolutely loved watching your channel, thanks for posting!

[@HattmannenNilsson]

I always forget about your Christmas specials and they always make me laugh. Big, fat double-like just for that intro. Add another one for the review and a game I obviously missed, way back when. Perhaps it didn't catch (as much) on over on my side of the pond. Thanks, Clint! I am now sufficiently full of nostalgia and holiday cheer to last me all year. ^^

[@MillieBoBilly]

man I loved this game as a child. my mom and I would laugh so hard when they would fart, taunt and when I'd hit the deer in the head with the ball.. the big Oof! sound was priceless

[@katyfaise]

This was one of my dad's favorite games ever. I remember sitting on his lap and playing with him when I was maybe 8 or 9. This vid brought back a lot of good memories of him, thanks for this.

[@delta7890]

Good God I had this and distinctly remember it. Thank you for bringing us the backstory I never knew I wanted to a game I'd almost completely forgotten about! (And holy crap HOW did this get so many sequels?! AND A MOVIE?!?!)

[@evanpeters87]

Love me some Christmas LGR, congrats on the new place as well!

[@MegaMaurizione]

I think Christmas Clone should have his own Netflix series. It doesn't get much better than him.

[@finnishgamer92]

"Is that all the balls you got santa"😂😂

[@jabelsjabels]

bless you, christmas clone :P

[@WayOutGaming]

Yay! I've been waiting since October for LGR Christmas reviews!

[@Melipeli]

The beginning was so incredibly awkward but hilarious. I laughed the whole time. Thank you so much for that.

[@JonnyInfinite]

3:23 - so is that what you could call....'viral marketing'? I'll get my coat

[@Astech31]

God I need this today, that intro was a unexpected surprise.. thanks for making me day better.

[@bigedwerd]

My family loved elf bowling at the time

[@Cantimule]

Wooow, this takes me back! Fascinating that it made it to Nintendo consoles. Also totally forgot Frogapult existed until now. I have no idea how it came to be on my PC since I didn't have Internet access back then.

[@sharkfinbite]

I had a professor who told me during the "Dot com boom" there were a lot of businessmen/suits and entrepreneurs scrambling to find any creative individual to help them be part of the big economic craze going on to a point some companies directly hired graphic designing students still studying their majors, anyone still studying anything related to computers straight out of the college classes before they graduated, or anyone that understood and could do impressive stuff with computers and software without any formal training (self taught mavericks). This is some of the many reasons (there were many factors besides this) to cause the crash. Out of this scouring of recruits of various people came individuals like the three founders of KZbin itself, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Though it's been a while since I heard this and deserves fact checking but when I looked at Jawed Karim's wiki it mentioned he left campus for early employment before graduation, so I believe there is truth to what my professor said.

[@nicolasievich7864]

Nice editing today mate! I like it :)

[@Panthersfan2]

I remember playing this on my Dad's work computer all the time way back when. Cool to find my memories weren't imagined.

[@xBeyondBeliefx]

I can't believe i saw this on your channel. This game was my life around Christmas time when I was a kid.

[@kirilichushanka1357]

The old intro's back, HUGE thank you!!!

[@Xpancakes11X]

I love that you bring out Christmas clone every December. I remember a couple weeks ago I was re-watching previous years and wondered if Christmas clone was going to make an appearance this year ^__^

[@paulnash9851]

Xmas LGR, yay !!! I wish you a happy one Clint (and everyone else). Long may LGR keep going for many more. You are one groovy/entertaining/informative guy. Merry Xmas/DOSmas...

[@paulnash9851]

Also, don't know if you are aware, but here in the UK, the salvation army have released a new "official" Father Christmas game, you can even get it on cd if you donate money/goods at some of their shelters, don't know if its online, but I guess it must be somewhere.

[@AmericanChronicles360]

I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS GAME!!! My grandparents had it on their computer and I would play whenever I went over there as a kid.

[@bluedragon9925]

One game I would *love* to see you review during the month of December is "3D Ultra Lionel Train Town." A puzzle game made by the same people behind the "3D Ultra Pinball" series based on Lionel's electric toy trains. It's not exactly a "Christmas" game per-say but to me it kind of counts as one since *many* of the game's levels (or "jobs" as the game calls them) explicitly take place at the north pole, with the goal of nearly every single one those "jobs" being to "save Christmas" in one way or another.

[@messngretz]

Elf Bowling made its way around the web back in the late '90s...I remember sitting in my company's office and you'd hear "elf elf baby" and the elves laughing all throughout the office. It was a huge web game hit, right up there with Snowball Fight.

[@og3171995]

I LOVE early Internet history, it's so fascinating to me.

[@Drew1749]

Man I remember playing this! Great nostalga as usual LGR.

[@Clamurtits]

NOW it feels like December with an LGR Christmas video :)

[@mirta000]

well I just found my childhood lol. This was one of the things I played!

[@Tailstraw_xD]

Holy crap, what are the odds I'd randomly find a comment from you on this random ass video? xD

[@The_Laser_Channel]

My History teacher in high school had this on the computer. He allowed students to play it after we finished our work. Was so much fun. For a few years, I would put this on my computer around Christmas time. I even got my mom playing it

[@MichaelXX2]

0:16 Just follow my moves and SNEAK around, be careful not to make a sound

[@HetaliaStuff]

I had completely forgotten about frogapult until I saw it on here! I must have been 6 or 7, going back to the computer in the back room of my grandmothers house to play elf bowling and frogapult. I looked up a gameplay video of frogapult, and the sound effects brought back so much nostalgia! also, GUTTERBAAAAAAALL!

[@kismetcho]

THANK YOU for doing this review. I remember being part of a huge crowd of children around a single computer where we were (covertly, of course) downloading and playing this game. It was so amazing to us then and I couldn't remember what the game was, but thought that you've probably reviewed it haha. Glad I was right; this takes me back :) I still feel just as rebellious as I did back in the day seeing those elven derriers wiggling in the air

[@greenmonalisa]

Thanks for the reminder! I have fond memory of playing this game back around 1999. :)

[@KyosBlog]

This reminds me that there was a time here in Germany where everyone went crazy about Moorhuhn, an ad game from Johnnie Walker where your only goal was to shoot cartoonish grouses. It even included a Boss-key to hide the fact you were just wasting time at the office. After the success of the first two games they kept making spin-offs with the mascot like platformers or cart-racers with now over 20 entries in the series. That was also around the time where people played a black, male sheep called Sven Bømwøllen (which would translate to Sven Cøttøn in English) that tried to satisfy as many white, female sheep as possible until he got caught by the farmer. I guess like Elfs' Bowling, it those games that use the lowest form of entertainment to go viral.

[@GentlemanBentley]

You know the Christmas season truly begins when LGR releases a series of Christmas related game reviews!

[@-DeScruff]

I had forgotten about this game, and didn't even recognize it. But then the "Ahhhhh" scream gave me a violent flashback of playing it and other flash/java games in late 90s and early 2000s.

[@sergeantpanther678]

Your house looks really good, I like the wall colour and the thingies on the lower parts of the walls.

[@LGR]

Thank you! And yeah, that's beadboard wainscoting :)

[@sergeantpanther678]

Lazy Game Reviews Well, that's a new word to me... Are you planing to redecorate?

[@manoflego123]

Really digging the animated laser projector in the background, very cool.

[@deniromorales312]

haha! I love Christmas clone you! I love the old school intro! And I love Christmas on LGR!!!

[@warhawk638]

Your acting with the christmas clone is amazing

[@kasarific5]

One of my Favorite Christmas games I loved Elf bowling as a kid.

[@FlyingSQUIRRILLLS]

So glad you made this video, I was wondering what this childhood game was called

[@iLLixer]

1:52 I have that in my wallpaper shuffle folder. used t have the as a login splash screen.

[@DanPantzig]

THE CLASSIC INTRO! Just what I wanted for Xmas!

[@brainpills13]

Oh man, I loved the "Not viruses' folder at 4:11

[@arigato7788]

OMG the memories are rushing back! I played the hell out of this back in the day!

[@iandavidwolfe]

Freaking hilarious vid Clint! I played a ton of Elf Bowling back in the day. I was 15 or 16 at the time. Like many guys around that age, I loved that kind of dumb humor and whatnot... until I got my drivers license, played in a band, played sports, and started dating lol. At that time my Elf Bowling days were over lol! Now I'm in my 30's, so it's probably about time to bust out the Elf Bowling again ;) Great video man!

[@itsGeorgeAgain]

Man that clone's laugh cracks me up. Really nice splicing effect btw. Not just in the implementation, but also in the way the ... two of them interact and timing.

[@sonicpelaaja]

I remember playing elf bowling 2 when I was still a child. It was on a disc that came with a computer magazine. Cool to see what the 1st one looked like.

[@AidGum]

I will always love Christmas Clint. ;)

[@thealaskanproducer3274]

I remember playing this game as a kid in Alaska. Ah yes. The sounds of screams from the elves filling the living room. 👌

[@fartcat8569]

Thx Clint for the vids every week that way I can watch at least one KZbin video without wanting to fight someone because I'm drunk an belligerent.

[@StalwartSpartan]

I used to play this with my Father back when i was a kid. Massive amounts of nostolgia!

[@thedungeondelver]

Haha! Oh man we had a blast with this at the office back that year. By which I mean pulling it off of user's machines! (Not because of the "virus" scare - we knew that was crap, but because of the productivity issues.)

[@okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

so its like.... late 90s flash Angry Birds?

[@Tysakasa]

I remember playing this as a kid, would spend hours with it (then again, crappy PC back then so, couldn't play much). Never knew it had any sequels though.

[@LeePrototype]

Oh My God! I remember playing this when I was like 4 years old, completely forgot this existed!

[@64jimboy]

I do love the over complicated bass line on the intro tune. Rup-a-pum--pummm... Thanks.

[@SygnaAlex]

Any memories I had of this game, I pushed to the back of my brain, hoping it would never return. But goodness, now that I see it again, I do remember enjoying it.

[@matthewrice4419]

I kind of miss the older style video intros actually, so it's nice seeing it on the Christmas videos.

[@fizalex6612]

I love the clone skits so much, I always giggle when I see LGR in a Santa hat.

[@Furthermore26]

Christmas clone Clint is awesome. I can't believe I laughed so much over that intro skit. Hilarious.

[@timmer919hep]

I remember hearing about Elf Bowling on the school bus. I think Elf Bowling 2 was out at the time.

[@StarSeerPony]

Oh geez... I remember this as a kid. You should totally do an LGR Plays of the various games on that collection.

[@ThatManOverThere]

1:15 What is the name of the game to the left of Sim Earth and above Serious Sam? I kind of want to know, just in case it turns out to be some RPG I haven't heard of.

[@dmgdgamer9759]

I still play this game now! It's hilarious and I always remembered playing it when I went over to grandma's house on her old dinosaur of a computer!

[@Drinkabeerandplayagameofficial]

Nostalgia is right, god this takes me back

[@amm2media472]

The two times of the year I look forward to on LGR! Christmas Games and Edutainment Month! Nice house by the way!

[@TGAProMKM]

man these game i still remember when i played it on my childhood days.....nice review as always.......

[@AmayirotAkago]

0:16 Just follow my moves / and sneak around / be careful not to make a sound~

[@AnimalFacts]

OMG, I used to love that game and for a while, it definitely got me into learning how to construct things in Macrmedia (yes, not Adobe) Flash :-)

[@robertwhitley6233]

I wonder how many people at the time realized this game was Anti Union propaganda.The Elves try to organize their workers and here comes Santa to do some union busting.

[@i.want.a.very.long.name.bu8382]

Most of the games that the company made appear to have been propaganda.