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Classic Bowling is a straightforward ten-pin bowling game that runs in the browser. There are no brawlers, no health bars and no opponents trying to knock you off a stage. You line up a ball, send it down the lane and see how many pins fall.

It sits on Super Smash Flash as a change of pace. Most of the site is fighting games like Gun Mayhem 2 and House of Hazards, where a match is chaotic and over in a minute or two. A bowling frame is the opposite: slow, deliberate and low pressure, which makes it a decent way to cool off between rounds or to play against a friend sharing the same screen.

Like real bowling, a game is made of frames, and each frame gives you a limited number of rolls to clear the pins. Your score builds frame by frame, and strikes and spares are what push it up.

How to play

The game is built around aiming and a power meter rather than running and jumping. From what the game's own files show, you set the direction of the ball, then a power bar fills over a fraction of a second and you release at the moment you want. Mouse or touch input is the main way to do this, so click inside the game once so it has focus.

The arrow-key and WASD controls that apply to most fighting games on the site do not describe this one. If a key does nothing, try the mouse or a tap instead.

Tips

• Watch the power bar for a round or two before throwing for real. It moves quickly, so timing matters more than speed of reaction.
• Full power is not always best. A slightly slower ball can be easier to keep straight.
• Aim for the gap just beside the head pin rather than dead centre; that is the standard bowler's approach to getting the pins to scatter into each other.
• On a spare, pick off the remaining pins deliberately instead of throwing hard and hoping.

Similar games on Super Smash Flash

If you want something that also uses sport as its theme, Big Shot Boxing and Rowdy Wrestling are the closest neighbours, though both are two-fighter contests with real-time hits. Punchers and Get On Top are quicker, more chaotic options if bowling feels too calm. Super Smash Flash itself is the headline game and a completely different pace.

Classic Bowling suits short sessions on any device with a browser, whether a laptop, a Chromebook or a phone. Nothing needs to be installed, and a single game takes only a few minutes.