Ball and puck bowlers

It's all about bowling machines!

Welcome to the BOWLER DataBase! Though not as popular as pinball machines, bowler games deserve attention. As of today, 555 machines from 50 manufacturers are referenced, there are 3958 pictures of 418 different machines and 12 resources (manual, schematic or catalog) of 6 different machines. You can help to enrich the content! Pictures or manual scans (even partial) are valuable input to add information to the database.

Lets be clear : nothing is for sale on this site except what is listed in the ad page.

The primary topic here is coin-operated ball and puck bowlers. In fact this place should be called IBDB, the Internet Bowler DataBase because the primary intent is to list all the machines of that type that existed. This site is absolutely non-commercial. The only purpose is to promote coin-operated bowler games. This site would not exist without all those that contributed. Many thanks to them.

Do I need to bring my ball and my shoes?

Wrong kinda bowling game. You are not expected to step on the board. Machines listed on site site look like this:

The board is not on the floor, and it is hardly smaller than a real bowling alley (I got to either shorten that board or get a bigger house to put this machine into the living room).

What's new?

Something has probably changed since your last visit. Here it is detailed.

How to get in contact?

If you must have information that is not on this site feel free to send an email to bowler@bowlerdb.org and you will get an answer!