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10th Frame cover

1986 · Indie Built · Bowling · Sports

10th Frame

A bowling game simulation for up to 8 players. You can play an Open Bowling mode or a League mode and try several game difficulties. Except for an old graphics, the game is still enjoyable for one or more bowling players.

Released
1986
Platforms
Amstrad CPCAtari STAtari ST/STECommodore 64Commodore C64/128/MAXMS-DOSMSXZX Spectrum
Genres
BowlingSports
Developers
Indie Built
Publishers
U.S. Gold
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Third person
Country
United States

About

10th Frame is a ten-pin bowling sports video game published by Access Software in 1986. Up to eight players can take part in open bowling or a tournament. It was released for the Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, IBM PC compatibles, MSX, and ZX Spectrum.

Keywords

  • bowling
  • cga graphics

Media

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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

The lane is viewed from behind the bowler, with the pins towards the top of the screen in a 3D perspective.

The scorecard for the current player is displayed above the lane. The player can move left or right on the lane before starting the run-up by holding fire. A target cursor can be moved by pushing up and then moving it left or right (pressing down returned control to moving the onscreen player's position).

Reception

Computer and Video Games reviewed the Commodore 64 version in issue 65 and called it a Game of the Month with a 9/10 score. Zzap!64 awarded the game 85% in issue 22, calling it "another slick and extremely well programmed Access sport simulation". Your Sinclair gave the ZX Spectrum conversion 7 out of 10, stating that "10th Frame requires a lot of skill and is a pretty good simulation".

Rick Teverbaugh reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Tenth Frame is on my top 10 sports games list of all-time and I think it will be on yours also."

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
ZX Spectrum31 December 1986Europe
Amstrad CPC31 December 1986Europe
MSX31 December 1986Europe
Commodore C64/128/MAX1 October 1987North America
Atari ST/STE31 December 1987Europe
MS-DOS31 December 1987North America

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