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Kingpin Bowling – Family Game Review
Kingpin Bowling is a Family/Sports/Sports game from Frosty Pop Games Inc., first launched in 28th March 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 13,135+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Kingpin Bowling Stand Out
The scene: 1979 Iowa State Bowling Championship. Primetime is your middle name, and the pressure is right up your alley. After all, it's how you roll. But keep your mind out of the gutter, pal. It's down to this: Munson, McCraken, The Jesus, and you. Let's do this.
Kingpin Bowling is an endless arcade bowling game with a bevy of cute and clever characters to keep you dancing on the tips of your bowling shoes. Avoid giant hotdogs, gargatuan soda pops, oversized clipboards, massive pencils, flying popcorn, and a few surprises, all while knocking down pins in your lane to the State Championship.
You were born for this, and this game is a strike!
Kingpin Bowling features:
• Simple one touch control scheme perfect for mobile devices
• Epic bonus rounds
• Randomly generated gameplay to keep things perpetually fresh
• Unlock-albe balls like El Diablo, El Scorcho, El Sofia and more
• Share scores with friends and family
• Over a dozen achievements and Leaderboards
• Whimsical characters and soundtrack
• Kids mode for the young ones
• Dope iMessage sticker pack
• Cool and impeccable design
• iPhone X optimized
• Haptic feedback
This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Kingpin Bowling is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th October 2018
Recent improvements include:
• Fixed Haptic on iOS12
Download & Availability
Kingpin Bowling is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Kingpin 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:
This was a w game when we were younger we used to play it on our moms phone for hours.
This game is so much fun to play.
This game is amazing, before we any other bowling games ,but then we found this one and we cant stop playing it.
We have only been playing this game for a few day s and we already love it!!The cute faces on the pins and the sounds they make are adorable. We love when you get a new ball is a mystery and you dont know what is is. The only thing we wish the game has is this thing were you can change the music. But is is still a great game.
Frosty pop studios always have fire games. Never fall to impress.
We love that Kingpin is simple and still gives players rewards to work at, like the different bowling balls or even just reaching a high score. Its an arcade game through and through, we enjoy playing.
We had bought a couple of this developers other games (Deck Em, Ten Large) and they were so well done we thought Id give this one a try. This is the best endless runner type of game Ive ever played. Super smooth, the art style is very cool, this is great to play when you have a spare minute but you always want to try again. We immediately paid to remove ads to support a good developer like this. We then also downloaded their game Sprnkls and did the same thing. We dont know the developer, we found his games randomly, and we think this is our favorite developer now. Thanks for making great games and monetizing so fairly.
This game is very cool and fresh! We love the bit where youre in the rainbow road, that whole experience is very cool! Guys keep making more levels and love that funky jam, you guys are a bad mother – shut yo mouth!! LOL.
We love this game and it is awsome.
This is a great game! Creative concept, cool features, and great music.
Ive had this game for a while now, and we can say without a doubt it is our favorite game on mobile. The gameplay is great, the animation is wonderful, and we could play for hours on end without getting bored. Thanks to the developers for making such a great game.
Its easy to play dodge,hit and collect coins play it once and youll wanna play it forever.
We loved it and always got stuck on the donut thinking we can go threw the donut hole.
Good game for passing time between things in your daily schedule.
We love this game soo much there are like no mistakes that were made in the making of this game we love the obstacles and STRIKES they are SICK we also love all the bowling ball skins. The things you hit (sorry we dont know what there called) are adorable and the sounds they make are super cute so if you are looking at our review and kinda wanting to get this game PLEASE DO IT IS THE BEST APP EVER IN THE HISTORY OF GAMES.
This game is too cute! The cartoons are simple yet creative. They just make us smile. Theyre not like those 3D simulators. Theyre funnier. We love that the obstacles are food items or even pencils and other stuff. Its so funny when you hit a bowl because they just start yelling things like yeepee! Or whoo hoo!. Theyre just so cute. And whenever we get a strike it fills us with joy to see the plain aisle turn into such a pop of color, we even appreciate the Mexican touch. Just a few things could be fixed/added like in the game you can get other bowling balls but you cant unlock other backgrounds or aisles, that would bring an some thrill and color to the game. The other thing is the music, its not bad but we feel like after a few days playing the music might just become a little annoying, maybe in each round you could get a different tune. But apart the game is perfect! One hundred recommended for people who love cute things, color, and mariachis! P.S. Sorry for our terrible grammar.
We cant get around so we play , and this is the BEST GAME EVER.
Our boyfriend wants to know why all of the bowling balls have spanish names? We think it is great! Keep it Frosty Pop.
It is without a doubt an awesome app.
So much fun to play! Only played 3 mins and Im addicted.
This is one of the most fun addictive killing time games Ive downloaded in a while. We are enjoying it a lot. We just have no idea what we are supposed to do with our coins now… We have unlocked all of the balls. Do more skins come with each update? Our only complaint is that we want more.
Amazing work it really relaxing nice job.
We love this game so much , it brings us to challenges. Even if we dont succeed we always strive to do it again and do betterI love the different features of the bowling balls, ketchup squirting, and also the donut holes. Its a good way to learn how to compete against your highest goals. This game always gets us in the game mood and honestly helped be better at games like this . We will say that Im not much of a gamer person but we still recommend getting this game.
This is a great game we did this for this spasific game its great because you feel approved when you play it.
Great game. Definitely keeps us going. We love the sound effect when u hit the pins its cute.
Absolutely addicting game with of the best haptic feedback we've ever used. Gorgeous cartoon graphics as well.
This game is so cool and so fun we love to play it.
This game makes you laugh, and we like playing games that are fun.
This is a very fun game and very addicted. We do think there is something missing. Like more reason to collect coins or a multiplayer in some way and different game modes.
We love this game. Perfect controls and great for 5 minute play-times. But, once we paid to lose the ads, it didnt take a week to acquire all balls. Now, we have a crap load of coins, and nothing to spend them on. Need more buy-ups, or IAPs. Our money is ready to fork over, if you guys can provide more custom pins, lanes, etc.
We like to play this while Im hittin it from behind..nuf said, ya feel us.
Say that the invitation to continue playing to get to your goal STILL IS NOT WORKING. We have reported it several times, but.its a great game, but ALL of it needs to workthanks.
We just downloaded this game and honestly, not disappointed. The little bowling pins are so cute! This game is good for when youre bored and just wanna focus on something for a little. We really recommend.
Like this new way to play bowling arcade.
Love the game and have paid to remove ads but haptics have stopped working after updating iPhones. Haptics dont work on our iPhone 13 Pro Max and still arent working on our iPhone 15 Pro Max. Haptics being broken take a huge amount of satisfaction away from hitting the pins and makes the game far less enjoyable as a whole.
We like the game (quite a bit) but we find ourselves often wishing it was just a little better. First, to echo some other criticisms, its hard to tell what a strike is in the game. Second, it lacks depth. Why arent there more things to do with the money you earn? Different pins, environments or maybe some interesting power ups? Nope. A new ball that doesnt do anything other than just look different. We want more from this game. A lot more.
This is a functional game but thats about it. It is unnecessarily cutesy. It does not offer anything new or creative at all. We mean. Its like a clone of 100s of runner games before it. There is also no point in theming it as bowling because there is absolutely no physics of any kind either on the ball or on the objects you hit. On top of that they show you an add and ask you to pay to remove it. But what for? For this game? Save your $1 for games that are more fun and more original.
This game initially felt like a throwback to the old iOS games of yore; a fun concept with good art and simple gameplay. Every so often, there would be a video ad but it wasnt extreme. Somewhere recently it updated to include an oops, you died watch a video to play a little longer mechanic, and its really frustrating. This is so maddeningly widespread, and this game is sadly not immune. Heres the deal: we would happily pay $1.00 for a game like this. Will the developer buy a house with that kind of money? Probably not. But it beats adopting this nickel-and-dime garbage that so many developers have been lured into.
Crashes frequently, strikes are random, not very customisable outside of bowling balls.
So we in a way like this game is fun but its made in our point of view for younger kids and in Between 5-8 year olds but Im 9 so we dont thinks its made for us but some other people mite think the same or different its ok what people think so thats ok but we give this game a 3 out of 5 so yea.
We wish it would vibrate when we hit the pin.
All the lights in the back ground gave us a headache. Plz turn it down it. THX.
Our son and we were having fun with the game but its complete crap when you get an ad ( that you cannot exit out of ) and have to close the entire app and reload in order to play again.
Play for 30 seconds & watch a pop up 30 second commercial. Repeat. Its too bad. It could be fun.
Fun for about 20min until you realize how simplistic and repetitive the game is and that there is nothing to really strive for besides more skins that dont change anything. Basically, a cash-in game (via the many ads and anyone purchasing it) for the app company.
Too many ads just after one failed attempt.
This game is fun! But there is a major problem. In fact it makes us quite angry to be frank. In order to stop the ads you must pay. Ok. We fell for it. We paid. Guess what? It only stop some ads. Now, we get ads in the middle of a game play which completely ruins the game. The ads actually stop the game. We want to warn people.
Tried playing his game. But it makes you watch ads after almost every run. We can forgive this in most games and wasnt against the idea of paying the $2 to stop them. But then it stopped us in the middle of a game to show us another ad. That helped us decide to just delete the game and walk away. Took all of 15-20 minutes from download to delete.
Do not waste your time playing this game.
First thing an ADD pops up! Smh no thanks.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.2
- Size: 104.78 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Frosty Pop Games Inc.
Last updated: 11th October 2018 | Genre: Family, Sports | Developer: Frosty Pop Games Inc.