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Arcade Bowling™ – Entertainment Game Review
Arcade Bowling™ is a Entertainment/Sports/Family game from Skyworks Interactive Corp., first launched in 31st December 2008.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 320+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Arcade Bowling™ Stand Out
The title has had over 5 million downloads. And now it has a COLOSSAL update.
The highly popular game had the progressive mode, with only one theme.
NOW the game has the all-new BATTLE MODE! Battle multiple opponents and see if you can:
- Shatter Sigh Clop’s hurling boulders
- Stop Oozey’s Zombies
- Blow up Mugsy, steal Lilith’s heart
- Send Zem Qaf back to outer space
- Graffiti with Fo’ty Cent
- Crack J.P. Howell’s safe!
And battle Dinofrino, Jerry Atric, Mr. Roboto, Simon, Cricket, Bonez, and Skidzo the clown.
Use Homing Missiles, Freeze, Time and the “Nuclear Option” in your battles. And many other gadgets and power-ups.
Additionally, PROGRESSIVE MODE, has been dramatically enhanced. It used to be just one theme. And had no power-ups. Now called SURVIVAL MODE, it now has 15 different themes! And you now it also has power-ups!
To play this classic, every ones favorite boardwalk bowling game, you aim and use your finger to fling unique balls down an alley and up a ramp into scoring holes. Once the ball flies off the ramp, you can tilt your device to influence the ball’s flight in midair! You use the accelerometer to adjust your aim by tilting left and right, and adjust the ball’s speed by tilting forward and back.
Key Features:
- New Battle Mode with 14 opponents, power ups, and one shots
- Progressive Mode with multiple levels of 9 ball game-play with increasing score plateaus and bonus targets. 15 themes with power ups.
- Game Center with scores and achievements
- Music play from iTunes play list
- And ACCELEROMETER CONTROL OF THE BALL IN FLIGHT
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Arcade Bowling™ is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th April 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Cleaned up the game code and improved performance
Download & Availability
Arcade Bowling™ is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Arcade Bowling™ on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We are so excited we found this game!!! Ive played & downloaded this game about 7 years ago??? Changing phones so much we lost it! Just so happen to find it yesterday! Looking for an interactive game is hard to find like this Skeeball Arcade by Skyworks! Such fun when you can control your game! Always the best games!! Fun exciting and colorful graphics! Ive always enjoyed and downloaded skyworks games and zynga games!! From the beginning of cell phones and game apps! The best were in the beginning of the internet world!! Game apps are just not the same anymore! Free as we were the testers yet it didnt feel like it back in early 2k!!! Thank you Skyworks for staying your best selves! So much fun even more now.. Im playing with the memories of our kids calling us to get them something or its time to leave!! Smiling right now! We miss our full house. Sky works Arcade has made our days!! We believe Ive written a review or maybe many here! Aqua Love is the name given to us at the time of writing reviews.. Life was fun and now its just fun trying to figure out how to pay bills and get food.. Times have changed but not This game!!! Its March 10, 2025 and still loving this game.
Thanks for continuing to let us play your games all these years. We like to play the battle mode occasionally because it can beat you !! Lol Thanks again.
We love this game so much it has so many games you can choose from battle and survival and even boss battles.
Resurrected games from our original iPod. How fun.
Passes time by quick. & lots of fun challenges.
This game is blind friendly and still challenging.
Several variations of the game. Great graphics & sound. Not hobbled by ads. Fun.
A very fun game. Very easy and quick to get in a game when you've only got a couple minutes to kill.
Fun game and can even challenge our son for something to do.
Nicely done. Game is easily playable.
Love Skyworks. Thanks for updating this classic.
This is still our favorite Skee Ball game. Thank you for updating the code so it will continue to work in future iOS updates.
We love this game! It gives you more ski ball skills.
This is still a great game! Will buy an in app purchase if u update it for the new screen size! :).
We noticed when a ring is flashing, our ball goes past it. It was flashing on 30 and we were centered with the hole, it moved and went in 40. It was crazy.
Theirs nothing wrong with the game itself, But when we pause the game or do anything else that pauses it! When we go back to resume it doesnt do anything! It gets stuck not moving forward! So lets say we pause the game when we just ended the round! For instance we go back, itll work to finish the round but to start the next one, it doesnt do anything! Please fix this, that would be Awesome! Otherwise the game is awesome and good.
Just updated to this from our old game and lots of fun.
Although we havent played another skee ball app, we think this one is enjoyable. We appreciate the fact that this game highlights a hole and you get 5 times the score! This makes playing last longer! We usually play the progressive version so we dont have to restart as often. We do wish in the classic original version it was easier/quicker to restart/ start a new game.
We enjoy and especially playing it with family.
The game is very enjoyable but every now and then if you play it for long extended period of time it freezes up we thought the first time was just a fluke but it happens quite often it keeps one from getting very high scores we dont know if this is done intentionally or not but its not good! And dont say because our phone is old, we have a brand new iPhone X.
Needs an update. We have lost many points in the battle due to it freezing after the last ball is roll.
This game is horrible. It is rigged so you cant win. Dont download this game.
WHYIS IT THAT WHEN we FIRSTDOWNLOAD THE GAME THEREISNT A FREAKING IRIGINAL MODE we HAVE TO BATTLE A STUPID DINOSAUR INSTEAD.
Im someone who prefers turning all sounds off in a game. Every time you open this app you have to turn off the sound effects, they dont stay off. Its quite annoying if youre somewhere quiet and want to play. Its also glitchy- it freezes a lot, especially in mid play. Hoping an update will fix these problems soon.
It toke us 2 years to get 2,453 coins and then a couple mounts later they take all of our coins and leave us with 190.
One of the worst apps Ive ever downloaded. We happily deleted this. Everything about this game is terrible. The original version was so much better.
This is the worst version of skeeball we have ever seen! Arcade Ball by Graveck is MUCH BETTER in graphics and sound, however there is no paid version for it. The "classic" version of this one looks like $#!+. The classic version in Graveck's version is ACTUALLY CLASSIC looking!! We don't know where the devs of THIS game got the "classic" meaning from, but it DOES NOT mean neon lights and crap! We downloaded this, loaded it, selected "classic" then quit the game and deleted it immediately! Piece of $#!+.
Game is cool but when you go to buy more coins that part stinks we bought coins and they said all set but did not get coins.
We think this game has potential. Needs more battles though.
Love the game and the fact that it runs well on our 1st gen iPad.
This game rox. We how it changes places in battle. It's so addicting!!!! Keep up the awesome work.
Este juego esta muy entretenido lo recomiendo ampliamente para pasar un buen rato divertido y sin muchas complicaciones, felicidades amigos los felicito por su juego es simplemente excelente… Sigan as en hora buena.
We like this game a lot. We only wish we did as well at an arcade.
Brings us back to the days at the arcade.
This game is amazing because you get to compete.
Yea! We're having so much fun with this App. We will totally tell everyone about this one.
We love this game it reminds us of the old days.
Best skee ball game for iOS by far, so many different ways to play, and progressive earning to purchase new boards! MUST PLAY.
HANDS DOWN! Best skee ball game app. Addicting and challenging.
Out of anything we could write, all we're gonna say is this game is just simply fun to play.
This game is great fun and challenging.
Love it. We have always like skee ball do much fun. Makes your eye hand cordination better.
Mindless fun, great game..addicting.
Good game. Just like amusement parks.
Easily one of the Top 5 best arcade games.
We'like it a fun game we play it all the time.
Really fun with different modes so there is a lot to do.
Takes a little bit to catch the technique, but it's well good fun. Love all the Skyworks games. Never nickel and dime you.
A fun game to play when you are on the go or at home.
We love it; it reminds us of the real thing.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.5
- Size: 89.09 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Skyworks Interactive Corp.
Last updated: 5th April 2017 | Genre: Entertainment, Sports | Developer: Skyworks Interactive Corp.