---
title: Meadow Lanes
tags:
- bowling
- sport
years:
- '1977'
params:
  image: /media/museum/software/arcade_meadow-lanes_s0.png
  specs:
  - label: year of release
    value: '1977'
  - label: companies
    value: Meadows Games
  - label: type
    value: game
  - label: media
    value: arcade cabinet
  - label: systems
    value: Arcade
  - label: number of players
    value: 1 - 2 players (alternate)
  screenshots:
  - title: title screeninsert coin
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/arcade_meadow-lanes_s0.png
  - title: menu / options
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/arcade_meadow-lanes_s3.png
  - title: let's start a one player game
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/arcade_meadow-lanes_s1.png
  - title: strike
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/arcade_meadow-lanes_s2.png
  - title: end of game
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/arcade_meadow-lanes_s4.png
  - title: 2 players game
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/arcade_meadow-lanes_s5.png
  - title: spare
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/arcade_meadow-lanes_s6.png
  - title: player 2 won
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/arcade_meadow-lanes_s7.png
  - title: ''
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/arcade_meadow-lanes_cab.jpg
  machines:
  - /museum/misc-arcade-video-games
  company: /companies/misc
  oc_id: 329
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230602110139/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=329
    date: '2023-06-02'
---

This is one of the first Bowling arcade video games, coming just after [Robot Bowl](/software/robot-bowl/) by Exidy released at the begining of the same year. The only bowling game released as early as 1977 for a home console is the [RCA Studio II version](/software/bowling/).

It seems like Meadows Games copied directly (and obviously) Robot Bowl, but doing the impossible: designing graphics even cruder than those of Robot Bowl.

Apart from that, the gameplay is exactly the same. To play the game (1 or 2 players), you have to move the bowler into position, bowl the ball fast or slow, and then hook the ball left or right.

In opposition to most other early Bowling games released later, you place your bowler where you want. Sadly this tend to make the game much too easy, strikes being fairly easy to achieve. Other games usually move automatically your bowler (or ball) continueously from left to right, challenging the player to throw the ball at the right moment.