no joke i've been looking for footage of these kinds of bowling alley animations online for ages and haven't been able to find anything. you're a lifesaver.
I've been looking for a different breed of AMF animations: The slightly more modern ones where the pins are anthropomorphic and have different costumes. Some of them were uploaded but I can't find a significant chunk of them.
@@twoblocksdown5464 In terms of events, yeah I agree. In terms of art style, our time would be better described as "depressed." Mostly grayish colors, and the "heroes" are more like something out of propaganda from a communist country. 90s art style was wild, as was 80s and much of 70s.
Most stuff that I'm interested in was before my time. But this is a perfect dose of nostalgia that I experienced first-hand. My goodness, I thought I'd never see these again.
Omg I was hoping to find these- they had this at a bowling alley I visited as a kid during a vacation. The blue bowling ball with the eyes and limbs particularly freaked me out (particularly the dance floor one where he does the splits- which actually isn't in this video), and combined with a creepy adult song someone was blasting on the jukebox, induced a meltdown in kid me- my parents had to carry me out of the alley in tears when our game was over. Worse- where we were staying on vacation had not one, but TWO spherical hanging lamps- and every time I saw them, I imagined them transforming into the creepy bowling ball to haunt me at night. Fun times ^^; Seeing these animations again, now that I'm older and better able to deal with anxiety, it's strangely nostalgic- I remembered some of these much better than I thought, and it's actually pretty cool to see animations I never would have in a regular session (like the Turkey ones). Anyway- I guess that's the story of my bowling animation memories. Thanks for reading.
Childhood memories. The bowling alley in my little home town is still using these animations to this day. When I studied engineering at the college, we went on a day trip to look behind the automatic pin setting system to learn about how it worked.
They're not actually low budget, They're just from 1996 if you look at the watermarks in the corners. Even tho toy story was out around this time it looked astronomically good for its' time. This is kinda how 90s animations looked at the time.
literally my childhood, my parents would bring me to the local bowling center all the time and I remember cowering in fear when these animations played I still do, had to call up my dad when I started this video to tell him to turn it off
I remember one time I was bowling, and the ball got stuck to my fingers, so it came of a little later in the throw, it soared in the air, and I got a strike... …on the lane next to me.
There are some missing here (like the split ones), but it's still amazing how many you found. I've been looking for these for way too long, and now my search is (almost) over. Thanks for uploading this!
I remember seeing this system at my local bowling alley that was opened in 1998 however the system was unfortunately replaced with a newer and more modern scoring system in late 2019!
I just visited a bowling alley and was so intrigued by these cute animations!! Then I decided to search for it by the watermarks and I did!!! I’m so glad I found these,these are super nostalgic and very Microsoft vibe(?) indeed. Some of them are even sarcastic!Will bowl again because of these random animations.
Ingenuity of the 1990s animators + efficiency within the constraints of the early 3D animation software. This is brilliant. The constraints are obvious, and add extra flavour. Niko from CorridorDigital perfectly captured the spirit of bare-bones rendering engines with only the most primitive transformations available, and perectly imitated this style.
I'm gonna assume that the bowling balls and the pins hate each other or just messing around. We need to hear about the lore of these pins and bowling balls.
I always assumed its like a Tom and Jerry thing. Biologically dispositioned to hate each other. but behind closed doors, they need each other maybe even love or respect each other
1:06 it gets worse the more you think about it... It's kind of meta actually. A bowling pin and a bowling ball with three holes. The symbolism is... Striking! *tumbleweed rolling across*
When ever my dad would come over to spend a week or weekend with me and my brother, we would always go bowling and I could remember most of these play.
This makes me shed a tear from the nostalgia of how much I went bowling when I was young. And if I'm correct, AMF, the people who made these animations, were the people who created the machine where you're bowling ball comes back after rolling it. I'm not sure if it's true, but the one at my local bowling alley has a AMF logo.
They played these exact animations at the alley that used to be down the road from me. It's a storage facility now because of bad business decisions, good times though.
I remember seeing some of those animations when I was a kid and teenager. They were shown at Leisureplex in Stillorgan, Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 years ago but sadly Leisureplex isn't at Stillorgan anymore and it has been demolished since August 2021 and it will be replaced by apartments. I missed that complex so much and I would never forget it.
We finally found it. The real bowling alley screen when you get a strike.
The original is always better than the memes it spawns.
@@anueutsuho7425 njjm
@@anueutsuho7425 hj
Yes
This is honestly weirder than most of the memes. The memes try way too hard to be weird and funny
See the funny thing is, while these where made in the 90's, bowling alley's don't update very often, so these might still be in use
I just came back from bowling and saw most of them
Yep they are. All of them actually. At least at my AMF.
The older ones are in use at the bowling alley I used to learn at as a kid. I still go bowling there occasionally
They are I honestly can’t believe they’ve never updated them maybe they thought it would be good for nostalgia idk.
@@troll4life662 it’s expensive to get new bowling computers.
no joke i've been looking for footage of these kinds of bowling alley animations online for ages and haven't been able to find anything. you're a lifesaver.
he really is
That's cus bowling alleys today are not using these kind of system anymore, the one you're seeing is an old AMF scoring system.
@@nickryan6787 the local bowling alley has more updated ones, and by updated I mean 2004
I've been looking for a different breed of AMF animations: The slightly more modern ones where the pins are anthropomorphic and have different costumes. Some of them were uploaded but I can't find a significant chunk of them.
jokes aside, these are creative.
I swear the 90s should be categorized as their own art style
Because it isn't?
There are some art styles actually, that spawned in the 90s, Y2K comes to mind but there were more
you could call them "Surreal"
ikr
V A P O R W A V E
I adore how they all gradually increase in intensity
1:06 there are just some things in this world that is best left unseen
What da fuck? Also we both have celestial and s in ourname
Agreed
I’d put my fingers in that
I came like 50 times
Why are the pins obsessing over someone who just killed several of their kind
1:06 YOOOOOOOOOO
No, please not this november
do they go all the way up?
Hard
the good ol stripper ball
Gon make me act up
these are basically fever dreams
The 90s was basically a fever dream.
@@101jir Well our time would more likely fit the defenition of "fever dream" . I mean with all those weirdos with their 10000 genders
@@twoblocksdown5464 In terms of events, yeah I agree. In terms of art style, our time would be better described as "depressed." Mostly grayish colors, and the "heroes" are more like something out of propaganda from a communist country.
90s art style was wild, as was 80s and much of 70s.
I love this style of crude and pixilated 3-D animation from the 90s. Really hits that nostalgic vibe.
That moment when you actually recognize some of these from your youth when you went bowling
It's a shame to me that I've played bowling for the first time around 2016-2017.
@@Carter-the-GOATed Some bowling alley screens luckily still have them
A bowlingnalley near me still uses these lol
Most stuff that I'm interested in was before my time. But this is a perfect dose of nostalgia that I experienced first-hand. My goodness, I thought I'd never see these again.
Same. I'm 30 years old and remember thinking that these types of animations were so high tech at the time.
You all know why we're here
this music paired with bowling alley screens is making me feel a new emotion
I predict this 4:07 alley scene will be the one to go viral
Yakuza: Like A Dragon (2020)
what about 2:26
4:29 ... *kinky*
Agreed
You're been hit by a smooth criminal.
Omg I was hoping to find these- they had this at a bowling alley I visited as a kid during a vacation.
The blue bowling ball with the eyes and limbs particularly freaked me out (particularly the dance floor one where he does the splits- which actually isn't in this video), and combined with a creepy adult song someone was blasting on the jukebox, induced a meltdown in kid me- my parents had to carry me out of the alley in tears when our game was over. Worse- where we were staying on vacation had not one, but TWO spherical hanging lamps- and every time I saw them, I imagined them transforming into the creepy bowling ball to haunt me at night. Fun times ^^;
Seeing these animations again, now that I'm older and better able to deal with anxiety, it's strangely nostalgic- I remembered some of these much better than I thought, and it's actually pretty cool to see animations I never would have in a regular session (like the Turkey ones).
Anyway- I guess that's the story of my bowling animation memories. Thanks for reading.
Wow
U our psychologically messed up now
@@OneHunnitNoCapStannitOnBidnisz That's what going to therapy and counseling were for x'D
Damn dude, that story could be a bowling alley screen itself.
2:28 I’m getting very excited looking at this
2:22 EWW this one crushed the DinoPins and it pop it’s guts out!
The next one is Disco Time!
Childhood memories. The bowling alley in my little home town is still using these animations to this day. When I studied engineering at the college, we went on a day trip to look behind the automatic pin setting system to learn about how it worked.
No joke, my bowling alley has low budget animations like these and it’s awesome seeing it
yup
@@gameboy8425 Thanks, Nintendo Gameboy
They're not actually low budget, They're just from 1996 if you look at the watermarks in the corners.
Even tho toy story was out around this time it looked astronomically good for its' time. This is kinda how 90s animations looked at the time.
Not low budget, this is just how 3d animation looked in the 90's.
Such a nice animation! I cant wait for future bowling animations and nothing weird is about to happen :)
I sure hope so
I really hope no one makes porn out of it. After all, not everything that exists has porn of it.
@@jesuiscrespo r34
@@jesuiscrespo what have you done
literally my childhood, my parents would bring me to the local bowling center all the time and I remember cowering in fear when these animations played
I still do, had to call up my dad when I started this video to tell him to turn it off
The bowling alley I went to as a kid used these animations until 2015, so happy to find them again
I lived by a bowling alley that had these animations, but I can't tell if it were 2014 or 2015.
4:29
Fun Fact: Brunswick made a screen where the bowling ball is asleep and the robbers (just call them bowling pins) escape.
When you failed to make strike or spare.
@@uevortex2958 which is also called an open frame
The 2nd alt frame for open?
I remember one time I was bowling, and the ball got stuck to my fingers, so it came of a little later in the throw, it soared in the air, and I got a strike...
…on the lane next to me.
There are some missing here (like the split ones), but it's still amazing how many you found. I've been looking for these for way too long, and now my search is (almost) over. Thanks for uploading this!
Didn’t all of these animations also have sound?
OMG IT'S THE REAL PAPERKING99
Like ax one?
I can't believe it's the real paper king!
That….that gif will never stop haunting me.
this is going to become very popular soon, i know it
thank you very much for putting these up
Imagine if you had no idea what bowling was before this and you only had these animations to go off of.
This 6 minute compilation brought me more joy than any feature length film has in the past decade. 👍
This music gave me goosebumps, why is this so epic?
Four Rows of Jacks by Mannheim Steamroller!
@@KOrgan0414 Thank you!
I remember seeing this system at my local bowling alley that was opened in 1998 however the system was unfortunately replaced with a newer and more modern scoring system in late 2019!
2:22 this one fucked me up as a kid honestly. just the thought of bowling pin dinosaurs leaking bright green blood put me off
Thanks Corridor Crew
This makes me want to go bowling again.
The meme is about getting a strike, but the animations for getting a gutterball are much more interesting imo.
And then there's the blue bowling
I will cry when the brunswick stuff comes out i swear
There are a few that have been found and uploaded by other people. Here's a compilation of some: th-cam.com/video/ljxu68ehlyI/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/Xa57i-n8lKU/w-d-xo.html
I cant stop thinking of it when I see this
I know what you’re talking about and I hate it
Went bowling about a month ago in my local bowling alley. They still had these animations lol
The ones you remember vs have never seen before tell you how good of a bowler you were
I hope they never decide to update these animations and make them "good"
I just wanna say thankyou for this! This is actually seriously important archiving work!
The primitive 3D animation just makes these even better.
I just visited a bowling alley and was so intrigued by these cute animations!! Then I decided to search for it by the watermarks and I did!!! I’m so glad I found these,these are super nostalgic and very Microsoft vibe(?) indeed. Some of them are even sarcastic!Will bowl again because of these random animations.
4:07 if among us had no kill cooldown
Sussy
Amo Gus syndrome sususususussy sus died in electrical died in electrical died in electrical !1!11!!11!1
when the imposter is sus
@@fishy_boi734 *Sussy baka*
@@shinydoritos0159 No
There’s something so charming about these old animations :)
I finally found it. I've been looking for this
These animations just have so much character!
Credit to the guy who connected a capture card to the TV at the bowling alley and then bowled a 300 game.
1:06 damn, now i have nightmares
4:33 hmmmm this reminds me of something i saw on twitter
💀
Ingenuity of the 1990s animators + efficiency within the constraints of the early 3D animation software. This is brilliant. The constraints are obvious, and add extra flavour. Niko from CorridorDigital perfectly captured the spirit of bare-bones rendering engines with only the most primitive transformations available, and perectly imitated this style.
Love that video
Same
I still want to see that one about the domestic abuse thing
0:21 4 JUMPSCARE
Scared Mista Noises
pretty cool doncha think
AMAZING VIDEO I ALMOST CRIED I LOVE THESE
after all these years i finally found the animations that my local bowling alley uses. thank you
This gave me so much nostalgia
I remember being really young and me and my friend reenacting the first clip everytime it would show up
2:36 this has literally lived in the back of my head for around twenty years now holy fucking shit
why the bowling man so mean
Ikr?
I'm gonna assume that the bowling balls and the pins hate each other or just messing around. We need to hear about the lore of these pins and bowling balls.
I always assumed its like a Tom and Jerry thing. Biologically dispositioned to hate each other. but behind closed doors, they need each other maybe even love or respect each other
This is probably one of my favourite videos out there.
4:29
My Favorite One
These Pins Went To Jail
No Wonder They Are Orange
That Flew Over My Head As A Kid
The music choice works so well. Thank you for this video
Excellent and correct choice to have it repeat too
1:06 it gets worse the more you think about it... It's kind of meta actually. A bowling pin and a bowling ball with three holes. The symbolism is... Striking!
*tumbleweed rolling across*
Wot u on abt maye
2:09 I love that the pin is like: Oh no! Anyways…
THESE ARE THE ONES I REMEMBER DISTINCTIVELY OH MY GOD
When ever my dad would come over to spend a week or weekend with me and my brother, we would always go bowling and I could remember most of these play.
Thank you for uploading all of these. Now all we need is for the Steltronic and Brunswick animations to be archived.
0:29 that was a smooth transition
2:12 is the one that I can recognize
Marble Blast
Bowlercopter
0:58 This rollercoaster can leave an injury because of HOW SHARP that dive’s turn is.
you sir, are a saint for uploading this
We have the boss system at the alley we bowl for our HS team. These animations never get old.
8 year olds when they crush up smarties and sell them: 4:08
Man the legs on that ball when you get 10 strikes!
In a row
0:00 wow sonic movie sequel looks lit
These are absolutely bizarre and I love it.
Aaah this brings me back to a simpler time. When I wasn't so serious about bowling.
Only have been fortunate enough to see up to 10 strikes in a row animation. Still chasing numbers 11 and 12.
You guys don't understand how happy this makes me
I've got the joy to experience these just now playing in a venue, I've never ever laughed hard while playing bowling
This makes me shed a tear from the nostalgia of how much I went bowling when I was young. And if I'm correct, AMF, the people who made these animations, were the people who created the machine where you're bowling ball comes back after rolling it. I'm not sure if it's true, but the one at my local bowling alley has a AMF logo.
Yes amf also made the scoring system
AND the machine the resets the pins
5:07 the one that predicts Angry Birds.
You’re missing one
yeah he forgot this one th-cam.com/video/KYVDiZ13uT8/w-d-xo.html
There's 2 missing actually
Let me guess, fleshlight?
@@yvetteboughey8776 cease
Which one?
Ngl, this music is a jam
4:33 deviantart
They played these exact animations at the alley that used to be down the road from me. It's a storage facility now because of bad business decisions, good times though.
Our alley still uses them and i love it lmao
4:35 Mans went to thirteen different universes to sock you.
I remember seeing some of those animations when I was a kid and teenager. They were shown at Leisureplex in Stillorgan, Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 years ago but sadly Leisureplex isn't at Stillorgan anymore and it has been demolished since August 2021 and it will be replaced by apartments. I missed that complex so much and I would never forget it.
Now all thats missing is the smell of bowling shoes, the carpet smell and aesthetic and the other games going on
Reminds me of my earliest days when Dad was a bowling alley manager. B-Rock 47 in Sidney, Ohio... closed back in 02 or 03.
0:08 **bumps head** owwwwwww my foot!
What never held your foot in pain after bumping your head lol
So this is why my 8th grade health teacher told us not to go bowling while under the influence of hallucinogens...
This is it, these are the ones I remember seeing as a kid
1:06 This inspired Twitter to have a certain idea...
Holy shit the memes were pretty accurate
I went bowling yesterday, It's my first time!
everytime i hit some pin's, They got these animation's for me!
Man, I remember seeing a lot of these at Fun City in Littleton before it went bye-bye.
Oh wow I actually recognize some of these!
The Mannheim Steamroller music is the cherry on top here.
Name of this song is: "Four Rows of Jacks" by Mannheim Steamroller