I picked this game up for $60 about 3 years ago. I love the music, especially the start menu, main menu, and the credits theme. Pretty decent little bowling game.
This remains one of my most favorite games on the system. In November 2013 I had just decided I was going to go after all 296 US released N64 games. Went to my favorite local spot for video games and found a copy for what was considered really cheap back then, even by 2013 standards when it would sell for maybe $30-40. I remembered reading it was quite uncommon and was pretty ecstatic to have a rare title in my burgeoning N64 set, alongside such elusive pieces like All Star Baseball 2000 and Automobili Lamborghini, LOL. I wouldn't realize just how lucky I was to find a copy in person that first ever game hunting trip... Eight years of game hunting later and I have never encountered another one since here in the Midwest US. I couldn't get the game to work right away and almost returned it, but was relieved when I finally managed to boot it up after several rounds of cleaning. Played through the whole game in a matter of hours and immediately loved it. Such a simple and modest yet addicting little game. My brother and I have played probably hundreds of rounds on the VS mode. I've followed the N64 collecting scene for almost a decade now and it saddens me to see how expensive things (especially this game) have become. I've got to be one of the biggest fans of this game out there, and I wouldn't be able to pay the going rate for this. I always wanted to get the box + manual to complete a copy of this game that I enjoy so much, but I'm not holding my breath anymore. Now at 295/296 N64 games and this still sits near the top of the list for me. I still play through it frequently, and have even posted the entire main game mode, as well as all the music from the game, to my RUclips page. I care about preserving it that much. This game brings back the warm, fuzzy memories of my earliest days exploring the N64 library and of my earliest days of game collecting in general. It means a lot to me.
@@71dembonesTV Space Invaders! Not even an uncommon one or anything. I haven't picked it up yet because I'd love to come across the last one organically. It would feel cheap to just scoop it up on eBay without a second thought and finish it off so unceremoniously. I've got no problem patiently sitting back and waiting for an opportunity -- most people who complete the set seem to have done it many times quicker. Admittedly I also don't want it to end!
@@mpacz9987 haha nice. Is your collection CIB or just going for loose? Mine is loose but all good condition. I've gotten much of my collection thru ebay because most of the deals at the thrift stores and garage sales in my area get snatched up quickly! Still have found some treasures via Craigslist and what not. but ebay sniping has been good to me but, it has required patience to get good deals! Of course, whatever type of collection you're building; it doesn't have to end with the NA library! Lots of cool peripherals and Japanese exclusives out there!
@@71dembonesTV It is a loose set, but I've accumulated a good amount of boxes & manuals in my travels. I don't know if RUclips needs another collection video, but I might post one to commemorate reaching all 296. Most of my cartridges are in pretty great shape too, mostly by dumb luck. Super Bowling, coincidentally, is probably the only one with serious front label damage off the top of my head. And you're totally right. There's a good chance I'll never be fully finished. I love having the original boxes and instruction manuals, and will probably remain vigilant in looking out for those once the cartridges are all finished off. I also started collecting for the Wii a few years ago, so I'll stay busy!
Another quality video Mr. Plant! I appreciate the ones that involve games I didn't take the opportunity to play back in the day so thank you for doing what you do.
Retro gaming has gotten stupid expensive. I'm so glad things like the Everdrive exist. I think it was a little over a decade ago that I found my old N64, and a few other old consoles, in storage at my parent's. I was going to collect, but I gave up. I sold most of my games, and used the money for Everdrives, and just got a Retrotink, and now have a pretty good time playing good old games in my living room. I might not be a "real" retro gamer, but I have fun, and don't really see the benefit of having shelves full of old carts with dying batteries, when I can just have one cart that also lets me play translations and fun romhacks, too.
Also retrotink 5x is too expensive. I wish there was a 5x mini the same as the 2x mini without remote control..just simple plug and play and 1080p... $150 tops..
@@rblc86 I agree, it was more money than I wanted to pay, but I love what it does. So far I've only used it with the N64, Dreamcast and PS2, but they all look fantastic upscaled on the flatscreen.
Great video! This is a cartridge I know I can't afford anytime soon. Will be saving this one for near the end of my collection so hopefully I can hit the later first!
Sculptors cut is so high from years of hype and people believing that because it was a blockbuster exclusive it was rare. There are less copies of super bowling by a long way so it’s only a matter of time before it surpasses CF once people smarten up 😋
I remember renting this at my local video store, the visuals and sound always stuck with me, it's still pretty unique for a bowling game. I feel somewhat bummed I didn't buy it when the store was getting rid of their N64 stock.
That's the problem with the N64 world these days. The prices have just been so artificially over inflated. But I guess that's a hole other topic in it's own right. Though your review makes me want to revisit this one. Now where did I put my copy, Hmmmmmm
@@n64glennplant ? I come from the far distant future of 2008 and we have super high tech consoles here that run at a whopping 1080p called the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
I've been waiting for a long time for you to review this. One of my favorite N64 games. I currently have the Acquisition Mode speedrun world record (that I've been meaning to try and improve upon).
@@Get_Low that’s a very good time, I think it took me about 3 hours when I captured footage for the review but I was trying to get some interesting shots not a speed run 😃
Even well-known games like Banjo-Tooie, Conker or Paper Mario cost absurd amount of money now. I'm not a collector and I'm not spending a significant portion of my salary on a single cart, unless it's Everdrive.
This is actually a very fun bowling game. Easy to learn but gets difficult pretty quickly. I forget exactly how but the "River" lane is broken and you can hit strikes every time if you stand in the right spot. Bought a new CIB copy from Japan for $10 shipped a few years back before the sellers wised up and started selling CIBs for $100 and up.
@@n64glennplant one of the many fun price charts out there! Mario 64 around April 2020 is one of the most remarkable events I've seen. Guess everyone wanted to play their favorite game one more time before the world ended. Stunt Racer in September 2016 raises an eyebrow too. No idea what caused that. Doesn't seem that there was any specific "e-celebrity" gamer that gave it attention or anything.
A bowling game is the most expensive Nintendo 64 game and even though the game play is ok it can be great If it gets on the Nintendo Switch Expansion Pack subscription just to try it out and see what's all the hype about. Cool video. ^_^
I don’t even bother collecting anymore. Market has gotten so ridiculous. But damn, 10 bucks for a cart only of this 10 years ago?!? That’s when I was heavily into collecting N64 games too.
Supposedly Bangai-o from Japan had just one print run of 10,000 copies compared to Scultors cut 20,000 I can't find any info on print runs of Super Bowling but I'd guess they're close.
I've been wanting to pick up the bowling games for 64. Happy to see this video Most expensive? Ouch. I only emulate games if I've played them physically so I will have to wait.
@N64 Glenn Plant cant remember which one it was, played it as a kid on a windows xp pc. All i remember was it was a basic bowling alley with a red bowling ball and typical old pre rendered graphics
This game is ridiculously expensive now. I missed this game at a yard sale and my brother in law picked it up for $5 with another game. I was mad at myself. At the time a year ago it was $650, however he always gives me discounts or deals. I payed $400 for it. It's still ridiculous, but we all put are money somewhere like gold for example. I don't see it going down in the future either.
@@GamePatter collecting lost its fun around that time. Prices got silly and I don’t like clutter so to speak I like quite a minimalistic living style. Plus I’d already owned pretty much every game complete in box at some point so apart from moving to another console there was nothing left in terms of thrill of finding something rare
Is this the most Sega Saturn looking N64 game? It just reeks of 90's arcade aesthetic, I kind of love it. Why isn't there more outlandish bowling games with cool characters like this? I want to see a bowling game where you can cause an earthquake to get a strike or use telepathy to win a 2 pin split
I got this a number of years ago when I got a lot of the "block buster games" wasn't very much like 50 I think, fairly average to me for a bowling game.
I hate to sound like a 24 year-old boomer, but I miss the old days when you could actually pick games like this up for cheap, and the market wasn’t being overpriced for the sake of fraud (see Super Mario 64’s insane listing). Hopefully N64 prices actually become closer to what you’d pay for PS2 and OG Xbox games some day.
I own this game, and my cartridge has a lot of history behind it, somebody send it from Nicaragua when their political crisis started like 7 years ago, I bought it super cheap, I think 20 o 30 dollars, and it was sold to me because the guy who was taks to sell it in my country didn't know anyone else who might care to get such an obscure title 😅
Was always bothered there was no option to turn off the LIVE camera. Fullscreen would have made this game way more replayable. But I just get tired of looking at that narrow screen after so long.
I picked this game up for $60 about 3 years ago. I love the music, especially the start menu, main menu, and the credits theme. Pretty decent little bowling game.
Yeah that was a great buy in retrospect hey!
Now it’s worth over $600
I own the cartridge and instruction manual for this game 🥰🎳
Getting the box would be 💰
Were the cartridge and manual yours from childhood??
Congratulations! A true hero.
How's it feel to be a millionaire?
@@n64glennplant getting the Bix would sort out their pension
Customer: "Got any RPGs on the N64?"
Retailer: "Errr, just 1, it's ok"
Customer: "How about bowling games?"
Retailer" "Oh yeah, loads of 'em"
So true ha
This remains one of my most favorite games on the system. In November 2013 I had just decided I was going to go after all 296 US released N64 games. Went to my favorite local spot for video games and found a copy for what was considered really cheap back then, even by 2013 standards when it would sell for maybe $30-40. I remembered reading it was quite uncommon and was pretty ecstatic to have a rare title in my burgeoning N64 set, alongside such elusive pieces like All Star Baseball 2000 and Automobili Lamborghini, LOL. I wouldn't realize just how lucky I was to find a copy in person that first ever game hunting trip... Eight years of game hunting later and I have never encountered another one since here in the Midwest US.
I couldn't get the game to work right away and almost returned it, but was relieved when I finally managed to boot it up after several rounds of cleaning. Played through the whole game in a matter of hours and immediately loved it. Such a simple and modest yet addicting little game. My brother and I have played probably hundreds of rounds on the VS mode.
I've followed the N64 collecting scene for almost a decade now and it saddens me to see how expensive things (especially this game) have become. I've got to be one of the biggest fans of this game out there, and I wouldn't be able to pay the going rate for this. I always wanted to get the box + manual to complete a copy of this game that I enjoy so much, but I'm not holding my breath anymore.
Now at 295/296 N64 games and this still sits near the top of the list for me. I still play through it frequently, and have even posted the entire main game mode, as well as all the music from the game, to my RUclips page. I care about preserving it that much. This game brings back the warm, fuzzy memories of my earliest days exploring the N64 library and of my earliest days of game collecting in general. It means a lot to me.
Which game are you missing?
@@71dembonesTV Space Invaders! Not even an uncommon one or anything. I haven't picked it up yet because I'd love to come across the last one organically. It would feel cheap to just scoop it up on eBay without a second thought and finish it off so unceremoniously. I've got no problem patiently sitting back and waiting for an opportunity -- most people who complete the set seem to have done it many times quicker. Admittedly I also don't want it to end!
@@mpacz9987 haha nice. Is your collection CIB or just going for loose? Mine is loose but all good condition. I've gotten much of my collection thru ebay because most of the deals at the thrift stores and garage sales in my area get snatched up quickly! Still have found some treasures via Craigslist and what not. but ebay sniping has been good to me but, it has required patience to get good deals!
Of course, whatever type of collection you're building; it doesn't have to end with the NA library! Lots of cool peripherals and Japanese exclusives out there!
Whoa! Almost makes me wanna find and send you a space invaders to cap off your collection story!
@@71dembonesTV It is a loose set, but I've accumulated a good amount of boxes & manuals in my travels. I don't know if RUclips needs another collection video, but I might post one to commemorate reaching all 296. Most of my cartridges are in pretty great shape too, mostly by dumb luck. Super Bowling, coincidentally, is probably the only one with serious front label damage off the top of my head.
And you're totally right. There's a good chance I'll never be fully finished. I love having the original boxes and instruction manuals, and will probably remain vigilant in looking out for those once the cartridges are all finished off. I also started collecting for the Wii a few years ago, so I'll stay busy!
Another quality video Mr. Plant! I appreciate the ones that involve games I didn't take the opportunity to play back in the day so thank you for doing what you do.
Thanks Karl!
Retro gaming has gotten stupid expensive. I'm so glad things like the Everdrive exist. I think it was a little over a decade ago that I found my old N64, and a few other old consoles, in storage at my parent's. I was going to collect, but I gave up. I sold most of my games, and used the money for Everdrives, and just got a Retrotink, and now have a pretty good time playing good old games in my living room. I might not be a "real" retro gamer, but I have fun, and don't really see the benefit of having shelves full of old carts with dying batteries, when I can just have one cart that also lets me play translations and fun romhacks, too.
Yeah I sold up probably about 6 years ago now. The insane prices just killed off the fun of it for me
Especially now we know the market is purposefully ruined.
Repro carts can be fun to own and play. And won't break the bank
Also retrotink 5x is too expensive. I wish there was a 5x mini the same as the 2x mini without remote control..just simple plug and play and 1080p... $150 tops..
@@rblc86 I agree, it was more money than I wanted to pay, but I love what it does. So far I've only used it with the N64, Dreamcast and PS2, but they all look fantastic upscaled on the flatscreen.
I will be honest with you I had no idea that this game was even out there but like you said this game is rare
Yeah, worth a play though it’s quite addicting once you get to grips with the controls
@@n64glennplant I will have to see if I can find this game if it's still out there
Este canal no solo tiene un tesoro con las mejores reviews de N64 de toda la web, sino que sigue actualizándose con nuevos videos. Gracias!
My Spanish is terrible but I think I get what you’re saying 😃
glenn te da semanalmente el aire fresco que nos hace falta a los nostalgicos veteranos!
@@n64glennplant Sorry. I thought RUclips had some kind of automatic translator.
@@backup_account_1 sadly not maybe one day though!
Glenn they do have a translator. That’s how I translate your O.G. English into our lazy slang English!
I bought this game at a garage sale for 50 cents with a bunch of other games.
Steal
I'd love to see something like this come back. Different surfaces, and ball/pin types would make a fun arcade bowler!
Yeah and I bet this would be fairly easy to mod
Games like Super Bowling & League Bowling on Neo Geo are chronically underrated. Thank you so much for covering this title Glenn!
Love me some neo geo games
Great video! This is a cartridge I know I can't afford anytime soon. Will be saving this one for near the end of my collection so hopefully I can hit the later first!
Or hopefully you can find a kind soul who will do you a deal on it
Never heard of this. I like the lane design and the 2P simultaneous play, but those character models.....beauty is in the eye of the beholder!!
Haha yeah maybe one day someone can mod better textures in for them
I lub them...
Clayfighter Sculptors Cut still appears to be more expensive. I'm seeing listings on ebay > $1k, and all listings I've seen for Super Bowling is
Sculptors cut is so high from years of hype and people believing that because it was a blockbuster exclusive it was rare. There are less copies of super bowling by a long way so it’s only a matter of time before it surpasses CF once people smarten up 😋
I remember renting this at my local video store, the visuals and sound always stuck with me, it's still pretty unique for a bowling game. I feel somewhat bummed I didn't buy it when the store was getting rid of their N64 stock.
Yeah hindsight is a beautiful thing right
@@n64glennplant Yeah, especially since I've made it a goal that I want to seek out and collect every game I rented as a kid.
im happy you are back!
Thanks - been back months now 👍
That's the problem with the N64 world these days. The prices have just been so artificially over inflated. But I guess that's a hole other topic in it's own right. Though your review makes me want to revisit this one. Now where did I put my copy, Hmmmmmm
Hopefully wrapped in bubble wrap in a special place haha
I did bowling for 2 years in special Olympics
Very cool!
It doesnt hold a candle to the best bowling game ever GTA 4.
"I suck at life, but I bowl like an angel!"
I don’t know any n64 game called gta4 ….what is this witchcraft ye speak of sorcerer!?!? 😄
@@n64glennplant ? I come from the far distant future of 2008 and we have super high tech consoles here that run at a whopping 1080p called the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
@@nobel11 let's go bowling cousin.
@@bigkmoviesandgames be gone vile beast!!! Back to Salem ye must return! 🧙
First I've heard of this game, the character designs really caught my attention, good stuff!
Yeah the secret characters are pretty darn unique
I've been waiting for a long time for you to review this. One of my favorite N64 games. I currently have the Acquisition Mode speedrun world record (that I've been meaning to try and improve upon).
Very cool - what’s the record time?
@@n64glennplant Just last night I got a new record of one hour and 33 seconds. :)
@@Get_Low that’s a very good time, I think it took me about 3 hours when I captured footage for the review but I was trying to get some interesting shots not a speed run 😃
Even well-known games like Banjo-Tooie, Conker or Paper Mario cost absurd amount of money now. I'm not a collector and I'm not spending a significant portion of my salary on a single cart, unless it's Everdrive.
Yeah that’s the way to game these days I think. Retro collecting lost so much charm when even crappy games were exchanging for silly money
Thanks for the review Glenn.
And thanks for watching!
This is actually a very fun bowling game. Easy to learn but gets difficult pretty quickly. I forget exactly how but the "River" lane is broken and you can hit strikes every time if you stand in the right spot. Bought a new CIB copy from Japan for $10 shipped a few years back before the sellers wised up and started selling CIBs for $100 and up.
Yeah the price charting looks crazy on it how much it’s gone up since 2016
@@n64glennplant one of the many fun price charts out there! Mario 64 around April 2020 is one of the most remarkable events I've seen. Guess everyone wanted to play their favorite game one more time before the world ended. Stunt Racer in September 2016 raises an eyebrow too. No idea what caused that. Doesn't seem that there was any specific "e-celebrity" gamer that gave it attention or anything.
Hey Glenn how about a top 5 n64’titles you recommend playing around the holidays?
Or too 7 n64 racers to avoid at all cost?
Good ideas I’ll add to the list
@@n64glennplant thanks and merry Christmas!
A bowling game is the most expensive Nintendo 64 game and even though the game play is ok it can be great If it gets on the Nintendo Switch Expansion Pack subscription just to try it out and see what's all the hype about. Cool video. ^_^
Looks like a nice game. Too bad it’s so rare. Maybe someday Limited Run Games will do a reproduction run like they did for Worms Armageddon.
Maybe, or more people will start flashing their own chips and counter fitting it
I don’t even bother collecting anymore. Market has gotten so ridiculous. But damn, 10 bucks for a cart only of this 10 years ago?!? That’s when I was heavily into collecting N64 games too.
Yeah I know right that’s what I was thinking
So which game has an estimated lower amount of copies, this or Clay Fighter? Great review btw
This by far
Supposedly Bangai-o from Japan had just one print run of 10,000 copies compared to Scultors cut 20,000
I can't find any info on print runs of Super Bowling but I'd guess they're close.
Retro gaming prices have skyrocketed since 2013-2014
I've been wanting to pick up the bowling games for 64. Happy to see this video
Most expensive? Ouch.
I only emulate games if I've played them physically so I will have to wait.
Good luck!
Who would have thought that a sports game would be considered collectable. I think there is a futball game on the n64 that is collectable as well
blitz special edition if you mean american football
ISS 2000 if you mean what everyone else calls football lol
Iss2000 is a rare one for North America
This has nice HI-REZ graphics, but why it always seems to be running on spitscreen mode, is honestly odd decition by developers.
I think it works because you can just bowl against your opponent instead of having to take turns - makes it much quicker to play
Good thing I have the EverDrive, I'd love to give this game a try
Yeah very playable and worth checking out
I have this game and I love it. I used to put so many hours just playing it 😂
Looks fun.
Yeah worth a play
Im going to check this out on my EverDrive!
Enjoy it!
I love bowling videogames
Which ones your fav
@N64 Glenn Plant cant remember which one it was, played it as a kid on a windows xp pc. All i remember was it was a basic bowling alley with a red bowling ball and typical old pre rendered graphics
Looks like chun li was guest character lol
Haha very!
This game is ridiculously expensive now. I missed this game at a yard sale and my brother in law picked it up for $5 with another game. I was mad at myself. At the time a year ago it was $650, however he always gives me discounts or deals. I payed $400 for it. It's still ridiculous, but we all put are money somewhere like gold for example. I don't see it going down in the future either.
So do you own a copy yourself or is this emulation?
I never have emulation on the channel it’s all captured from n64 console
@@n64glennplant Everdrive?
@@GamePatter yes, I sold off my CIB collection a few years ago now
@@n64glennplant 😱
@@GamePatter collecting lost its fun around that time. Prices got silly and I don’t like clutter so to speak I like quite a minimalistic living style. Plus I’d already owned pretty much every game complete in box at some point so apart from moving to another console there was nothing left in terms of thrill of finding something rare
Is this the most Sega Saturn looking N64 game?
It just reeks of 90's arcade aesthetic, I kind of love it. Why isn't there more outlandish bowling games with cool characters like this?
I want to see a bowling game where you can cause an earthquake to get a strike or use telepathy to win a 2 pin split
Now you mention it the character models are distinctly Saturn looking aren’t they
@@n64glennplant They look like Fighting Vipers rejects or secret characters from one of the Winter Heat games.
I bought this game like 5 years ago for maybe 50 bucks at most
I know it’s crazy how much it’s gone up since then, that was probably the last good year in terms of price for jt
I got this a number of years ago when I got a lot of the "block buster games" wasn't very much like 50 I think, fairly average to me for a bowling game.
Good price! Although not sure why someone put it in the blockbuster games as it wasn’t an exclusive
@@n64glennplant My apologies I meant I got most of the games I thought where block buster games.
@@caleer8567 don’t worry I get ya 😄
I'll try this game on my retrotink 2x mini and 10ms input lag tv
Arright
lol glad i have my flash cart tho i doubt I'll be firing this game up anytime soon
Shame it’s worth an afternoon to complete it for sure
I hate to sound like a 24 year-old boomer, but I miss the old days when you could actually pick games like this up for cheap, and the market wasn’t being overpriced for the sake of fraud (see Super Mario 64’s insane listing). Hopefully N64 prices actually become closer to what you’d pay for PS2 and OG Xbox games some day.
Yeah it’s a sad time but at least ever drives exist for combating this plague of over priced carts
The only Bowling Game which made me playin' for more than 10 Minutes was in Yakuza 3😆
Haha never played any of those games
How much is this game?
I think a complete copy sold on eBay last year for pennies under 5 thousand dollars
Doesn't come close to the Mario Party 2 bowling minigame
If nothing else, at least Super Bowling won't make you chuck your controller into the TV & break it... *COUGH* Wii Bowling *COUGH*
Haha plenty of games on wii bowling back in my day
I own this game, and my cartridge has a lot of history behind it, somebody send it from Nicaragua when their political crisis started like 7 years ago, I bought it super cheap, I think 20 o 30 dollars, and it was sold to me because the guy who was taks to sell it in my country didn't know anyone else who might care to get such an obscure title 😅
Whoa that’s crazy!!!
@@n64glennplant I know right, that's why is extra special for me, has a somewhat disturbing story behind
for it to be so rare... ten pin alley is way better
Sadly this game along with a few N64 games has gotten expensive!
Kinda disappointed, so many missed ball, pin and hole joke opportunities.......
I left that for you dudes in the comments 😂
Just buy the japanese version and ure good to go
Yeah miles cheaper and menus are a breeeze
Was always bothered there was no option to turn off the LIVE camera. Fullscreen would have made this game way more replayable. But I just get tired of looking at that narrow screen after so long.