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Rockin Bowl-O-Rama

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Description

1950s themed video bowling game with a retro-styled cabinet. Rockin BowlORama is a future- retro styled video bowling game for one to four players. In addition to regulation bowling it features three variations Trick Shot, where players compete to convert difficult spares Ten Pin Poker, where players are dealt a playing card for each mark and try to get the best poker hand and Blackjack Bowling, where players get three full racks of ten pins each per frame and try to knock down twenty-one without going over. Teasers which look like animated 50s TV commercials taunt or cheer the player. The game includes an onscreen jukebox loaded with thirty tracks of music from the 1950s.

Rockin Bowl-O-Rama was produced by Namco in 2005.

Namco released 310 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1977. Namco was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Namco during the time period Rockin Bowl-O-Rama was produced include: Casino Winner, Phantom Ship, Checkpoint Rally, Maximum Tune, Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune, Tekken 5, Donkey Kong - 2005 Release, Pac-Man 25th Anniversary, Mario kart Arcade Gp, and Cobra The Arcade

Specs

Name Rockin Bowl-O-Rama
Developer Namco (Japan)
Year 2005 - 2006
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 13616
Class Wide Release
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard - Full Size Upright
  • Alternative - Pedestal Version

Rockin Bowl-O-Rama KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.50 (1 vote)

Fun Factor: 5.00

Overall Like 5.00
Fun (Social) 5.00
Fun (Solo) 5.00
Collector Desire 5.00

Technical Rating: 4.00

Gameplay 4.00
Graphics 4.00
Originality 4.00
Sound/Music 4.00

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Rockin Bowl-O-Rama Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 17 known instances of this machine owned by Rockin Bowl-O-Rama collectors who are active members. Of these, 15 of them are original dedicated machines. One is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Rockin Bowl-O-Rama machine for sale.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

This game ranks a 1 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

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Our members have reported that Rockin Bowl-O-Rama is playable at 1 locations:

Name Location State Country Details Check-ins
Bit Bar 278 Derby St, Salem Massachusetts United States Unknown 1

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Year Count Median $ Average $
2015 3 747.50 728.33
2016 3 230.00 210.83
2018 2 132.75 132.75
All Years 8 233.00 385.38

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