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Gutterball: Golden Pin Bowling HD Lite – Family Game Review
Gutterball: Golden Pin Bowling HD Lite is a Family/Sports/Entertainment game from Skunk Studios, Inc., first launched in 3rd September 2011.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 261+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Gutterball: Golden Pin Bowling HD Lite Stand Out
Do you have the Golden touch? Play Gutterball: Golden Pin Bowling and rack up some golden pins! If you’re looking for a bowling game that will exceed your expectations, THIS is the bowling game to play!
IMPORTANT!!! In this release we have added customizable bowling balls… see more below.
SUPPORTED DEVICES: all iPads
GUTTERBALL BOWLING HIGHLIGHTS:
• A true bowling game with dazzling graphics and amazing pin physics
• Clean & crisp throwing action lets you spin your bowling ball like a pro
• Golden Pins are earned for bowling well, allowing you to unlock new alleys bowling balls, 3 unique power ups and customizable bowling balls.
• Awesome Power Ups, including a BOMB, a SPLITTER, and an INFLATOR.
FEATURES:
• Incredible bowling alleys and fantastic bowling balls
• House, Style and Effect bowling balls to unlock, each more awesome than the last
• Customizable bowling balls. Add photos or use the textures from the game.
• Bowlers who spin the ball like a pro can earn up to 3x multiplier on their Golden Pins
• Game Center enabled with 8 Leaderboards and 40 bowling achievements
INCLUDED IN THE FREE VERSION:
• 1 Free Lane – Retro!
• 6 Bowling Alleys to unlock – Vegas, Mineshaft, Barnyard, Cosmic, Lotus Lane and Ice Dragon
• Dozens of Unlockable Bowling Balls
• 2 Free Bombs, 2 Free Splitter, 2 Free Steering Wheels
UPGRADE TO THE PAID VERSION TO GET:
• 10,000 Free Golden Pins
• 2 Free Alleys (Vegas Unlocked)
• Reduced Cost of Alleys and Balls
• FREE Tilt Steering
• No ads
(items purchased in the free version will not appear when later upgrading to the paid. iTunes does not support this yet.)
HISTORY:
The original Gutterball 3D bowling game premiered in 2002. It reached #1 on many portals and stayed in RealArcade’s Top 10 for an unprecedented 54 weeks. Gutterball 2 arrived in 2004 with all-new crazy bowling alley designs, much improved visuals and physics, and new features galore. And now, in 2011, Gutterball: Golden Pin Bowling is all-new and ready to go! We think it’s the finest bowling game on the App Store and we’ve played them all.
You be the judge… is this Gutterball the best bowling game ever?
This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Gutterball: Golden Pin Bowling HD Lite is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th May 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
• Minor bug fixes
• Alignment of end game share button
Download & Availability
Gutterball: Golden Pin Bowling HD Lite is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Gutterball: Golden Pin Bowling HD Lite on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 / iPad Mini 3 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 4 / iPad Mini 4 (Cellular) or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We got this game again and Im just remembering how we used to play with this on our old iPad. Still looks mostly the same from when we used to play it from around 2012-2016 (as far as we know).
If you would update the game that where we could cool custom bowling balls and new custom designs for our new cool bowling balls as well just making a suggestion that you should make new custom designs for the phone bowls when you build to make one when you go to make your own bowling ball and even that we can make our own custom size and let the sizes and the bowling balls every single one The game is fun can make are own bowling als that are custom as well with this idea that will be no way to discontinue the game and custom bowling pins as well.
Dear Skunk Studios we Really Like This Game And The Voices Are Kinda Very Nice And we Wish You Made Gutterball 2 On Mobile.
We are a loyal fan of Gutterball, finding it realistic, fun, challenging, and entertaining , especially when we are in the mood for canned insults. Seriously, we have to do tons of computer work each day, ugh, but Gutterball, the only game on our Mac, hits us up with a nice respite, especially in these unfortunate Covid 19 days. By the way, Ive tried the other bowling games and havent found one that equals the true bowling action, entertainment, and variety of lanes. Truly, whats not to like? So please, Gutterball, please update for iOS, Thank you.
We CAN NOT Believe THAT we GOT AN PERFECT GAME! We RATED THIS GAME 5 STARS AND 10/10 FOR THIS! THANK YOU CREATORS! YOU RULE!!!! :D.
WHERE IS THE UPDATE?????? Why arent our achievements showing.
We love it! Now that we cannot stand to bowl this is the next best thing! We love it.
Totally rocks sooooo addictive.
This is our first time ever rating an app we love this game it's is totally awesome. We love bowling apps this game is totally addicting we recommend this app so please download this app u won't regret it. Steph rocks.
We love the game, but Im sad that we cant purchased any gold pins.
For a free game this is very good. We wish there was an option to remove the ads but it might be more than Id be willing to pay. We just discovered that turning off your wi-fi disables the ads.
We have been playing this game since our iPad 2 but this version have to many ads plus they say in-purchase available but how? No support from developer, what are we suppose to do.
Can you please move the ads to the side? We used to love this game but now we cant see all the attributes of the ball when selecting.
This is a good game. But can you bring the original Gutterball game to iOS. Please remove the adds at the top of the screen. They cover up the top of the game. Or at least please make them smaller if they are to be there.
We want to buy the game, but the ads are annoying. Eventually we will delete the game if no chance to buy,.
We would pay a couple bucks to get rid of the adds. The big banner across the top of the page is annoying and if the option to opt out by paying does not happen, the game will be deleted.
Take the same up Id add off of the top of the screen. You accidentally hit it constantly. ITS ANNOYING. You want to put an ad in every few frames then fine. But that on top constantly is crap.
We actually enjoy this, but there is one problem. After finishing a game, the game freezes on a loading screen. Even after waiting a long time doesn't work, but it might be our old iPad. Only solution is to restart the app. If you could fix this, we would appreciate it.
We have loved this game for years. It is great on our iPod. Great on our old phone. But the HD version has the top covered in ads. Hate it.
Want more stars, buddy!? Let us know how and where we go to restore our purchases. We've paid to unlock lanes and things. We want em back. We should be able to restore em and not have to pay again for the same thing(s).
Its a fun game but get rid of annoying advertisements.
Too many ads in fact we don't want to see any ads while playing a game. Ads never ever make us visit a site or purchase what they are trying to sell. It does the complete opposite and after a while we'll stop playing this game if they don't get rid of the ads. Also why doesn't all of the past purchases and achievements in the game transfer to other iPads with the same user.
Loaded this on our new iPad and the add at the top of the screen covers some of the content and is distracting when playing the game. Ive played this for years on our old iPad with no adds and loved it, if we dont find a way to get rid of the adds Ill delete it and find something different.
We used to really enjoy playing this game until they added so many ads that slowed the game down. When The ads pop up, they inhibit the game to the point of not allowing the ball to go down the alley properly.
What it should should be where you type in your name to play what is the player he unlimited.
We love bowling so it is just amazing.
When we try and add effects to the customizable falls and save anything we do after that point we get a message saying "quit pro shop The changes you make will not be saved then we are taken to a screen where we can't do anything and we have two quit the game and run it all over again and then after all that the fall we tried to add a and affect to won't even work on the lanes when we try to use it to bowl with and we again have to restart the game! It's very annoying we don't like it! You need to come up with an update to fix this issue pronto.
The ball customizer won't work at all. It pretty much freezes the game.
This game has bugs to be fixed . Lanes down load with missing features. Pins resets and no pins show up . These flaws tend to spoil the game.
Every time we play the Lady in the game says mean things about us and makes us mad.
In the upgraded version, the achievements are not listed consistently listed,even when earned. Sometimes it's shown sometimes not. Most often not. Bummer.
We had not been into bowling until we played this app. Our speech therapy clients and we have played this game many times and had a blast. It has opened up their communication skills greatly.
App used to work fine. Now the app will not even open on iPhone or iPad ……..don't waste your time downloading until its fixed. Used to be a fun game.
We love this game. We always battle each other.We even play it at the mall! You can unlock other bowling balls and it's exciting! We love it! We love it.
Fun game, a little slow to load, but still a good time. Loads every time for us now.
Excellent app, but of late, won't stay up. Keeps crashing. Please fix. Tx.
This game was a family favorite until the most recent update. Since updating, the game crashes upon opening. Very disappointed and hoping that a newer update will rectify the problem.
We just bought one of the custom balls and was customizing it, game crashes and now it won't load, why is this happening.
We loved this game until a recent upgrade now causes it to crash upon opening. After reading recent posts from others this seems to be a widespread problem. Too bad, this was one of the better bowling apps.
Game won't load after recent update.
Would be an awesome app if it would work it dumps you off fix it and it would be super.
Latest update crashes on launch. Wait for new update.
Installed latest update and doesn't work now. After launching app immediately crashes. Deleted and re-installed app several times, still same result, crashes! We hope will be a fix soon, as we love this game.
We would give it less than a star if we could….after latest update game will not load. After last update it stopped working but the last update was taken out-both seem to have to do with Facebook and twitter…aggravating to say the least.
This is so frustrating! This would be an awesome app but it stops working and kicks you out. They need to fix it! We've deleted and reloaded it and still nothing! Delete the app completely if your not going to make it work.
Great fun. The best of the bowling apps we have found.
Game is awesome and great but recently it loads half way and then the app just forecloses. How can we fix this issue.
We think there is something wrong with the game. When we try to play the game, the app crash and we can't play it.
This game is overall a great game and we love playing it but recently it has been crashing. Please solve this problem so we can get back to playing!!! Thank you.
When we wanted to play the game it stopped working.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.1
- Size: 120.07 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Skunk Studios, Inc.
Last updated: 18th May 2017 | Genre: Family, Sports | Developer: Skunk Studios, Inc.