From Freezair: It's an all-out battle in the lanes! When Team Rocket takes over Saffron City, leader Giovanni traps several intrepid Pokemon trainers in a bowling alley. But Giovanni forgot that he'd accidentally stashed a secret cache of stolen Pokemon beneath the lanes, and now they've broken out and are running free! Using your specially designed Bowling PokeBall, hunt down the loose Pokemon and build up your team to stop Giovanni! * 17 wacky lanes! * Catch 'em all like never before! * Customize your own trainer! * Bowl over Giovanni!

Pokemans. It's nigh-impossible to escape them- would that anyone had a desire to do so. Genetically engineered to be as cute as humanly bare-able, Pokemon offer us interneters a powerful charm without which we would be diminished. Doughy, wet eyes are super effective.

My first impulse was to go dark with this but I think everyone's first impulse is to go brooding and threatening with Pokemon. They're tiny monsters that fight and harm for their master's pleasure- which is pretty creepy on the face of it. I decided to let to just leave a player to the playing. So here's your cute. Here's your adorable. Let's get excited about stuffing hapless creatures into our pockets!

Would I play this? One of my secrets is I've never played a Pokemon game to completion. I've got no objection to the games; I just haven't gotten around to beating any of them. How great would it be if the first Pokemon game I beat was a spin-off/hybrid game? "Pretty great" is the answer.