HyperBowl: From Sony Arcade to Windows XP Classic! An LGR Retrospective
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Jun 3, 2025 21:50
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Hyperbowl is perhaps most known for being in the Windows XP Plus! Pack and Media Center Edition in the 2000s, but it first was a (literally) huge arcade game attraction created by Sony for use in the San Francisco Metreon Center in 1999. While I've never experienced that machine, I played a ton of it on PC! So let's look at each different home version, including the newer Unity Engine releases.
● LGR things elsewhere:
https://www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews
https://bsky.app/profile/lgr-yt.bsky.social
● Other pertinent links:
WWG PlayStation Store Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iijVmH74jc
HyperBowl Prelaunch Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDtFA0tgBJE
Technicat: https://hyperbowl3d.com/
2022 Unity versions: https://github.com/technicat/hyperbowl/releases/tag/v1.0.0
Steam version: https://store.steampowered.com/app/847530/HyperBowl/
iPhone/iPad port: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hyperbowl/id344209253
● Background music licensed from Epidemic Sound:
http://www.epidemicsound.com
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