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Bowling / Micro Match	bowling memory game mind games sport	1978	specs screenshots machines company oc_id source label value year of release 1978 label value companies APF Electronics label value type game label value media cartridge label value systems APF MP1000 systems label value number of players 1 - 4 players (alternate) title subtitle text image title screen null title subtitle text image menu / optionshow many players ? null title subtitle text image bowling null title subtitle text image null title subtitle text image null title subtitle text image spare null title subtitle text image strike null title subtitle text image null title subtitle text image Micro Match null title subtitle text image Micro Match - word pairs null title subtitle text image Micro Match - design pairs null title subtitle text image Micro Match - color-box triplex null title subtitle text image Micro Match - word triplex null title subtitle text image Micro Match - design triplex null title subtitle text image Cartridge null title subtitle text image Cartridge null title subtitle text image Cartridge side label null title subtitle text image box null /museum/apf-imagination-machine /companies/apf 672 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230607050957/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=672 2023-06-07

This cartridge offers two games: Bowling and Micro Match

Bowling
This game is one of the earliest bowling videogame released, along with the RCA Studio II version (1977), the Fairchild Channel F bowling (1978) and the Atari VCS (1978). All of them seem to have been inspired by the first bowling arcade videogame Robot Bowl (1977).

You can play Bowling for the APF-1000 with up to 4 players. Like the other bowling games of the time, your ball is moving constantly back and forth and you must decide when you want to throw it by pressing the fire button at the right moment. There is no way to put hook effect on the ball here.

Micro Match
Micro Match is a memory game. The object of the game is to match the hidden object or word with a similar object or word. If you guess correctly, the squares will disappear from the screen and you go again.

Here again you can play with up to 4 players. There are 5 different game modes, from the easiest to the hardest, depending on what you must find (colors, patterns or words) and how many items (pairs or triplex)