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+---
+title: Bowling
+tags:
+- bowling
+- sport
+years:
+- '1971'
+params:
+  specs:
+  - label: year of release
+    value: '1971'
+  - label: companies
+    value: RCA
+  - label: type
+    value: game
+  - label: media
+    value: tape
+  - label: systems
+    value: RCA Fred computers
+  - label: number of players
+    value: 2 players (alternate)
+  - label: staff
+    value: Joseph Weisbecker (Programmer)
+  screenshots:
+  - title: Start of the game. First frame, player 1, first ball
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: First frame, player 2's second ball
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Frame 3, first player second ball
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: 5th frame, end of the game.. Player 1 wins
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  machines:
+  - /museum/rca-fred
+  company: /companies/rca
+  oc_id: 851
+  source:
+    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20211027104635/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=851
+    date: '2021-10-27'
+---
+
+This game is simply the first ever Bowling video game known today !
+
+It was programmed by Joseph Weisbecker on the 16th of august 1972 while developping the Fred concept at RCA.
+
+This bowling concept eventually led to the bowling game found built-in the RCA Studio II videogame, also programmed by Joseph Weisbecker.
+
+This version is a two players game, identified with X & O on the display. The game is played in 5 Frames, with 2 balls per frame for each player.
+
+F1, F2 etc. indicates frame number on display. X1, X2, O1, O2 indicates player and ball number.
+
+More incredibly, this game used sounds on tape when a ball is rolled ! The sounds on the tape were recordings from a bowling ball hitting targets, repeated multiple times.
+
+There is no hook effects or anything like that. The player just has to press a key to launch the ball. But the randomness and incertitude of the game comes from the fact that the ball goes up and down in a erratic way, making it difficult to launch the ball at the desired position.