Cosmic Bowling - It Isn’t What It Used To Really Be…Fun!
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Boy, do I remember the days back in the late 1990s when Cosmic Bowling was really the thing. You would have to wait over an hour to get a lane in a 44-lane bowling center like the one I bowl at every week. Back then, it had a DJ, prizes, dancing, free game giveaways, and cash jackpots up to $500. Even the pins were multi-colored and had UV light on them!
I went bowling today and it was all cosmic bowling until 5pm. During that time I was reminded of the past, because today’s Cosmic Bowling just plain sucks! All it has now is just the music videos, the flashing lights, the plain old white-lighted pins, and nothing else. We only had to wait 10 minutes for a lane and the place still had 4 lanes that weren’t being used!
Seriously, someone needs to get the word out that Cosmic Bowling needs a comeback. It’s fun for a lot of people, because, at least with a DJ, it can be a lot more fun than you can really think. That is just my thought.
Do you go Cosmic Bowling once in awhile? What’s in your bowling center when the lights go out and the UV lights prevail? What do you expect in Cosmic? Let me know in a comment here on Lockergnome!
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One of those BZ Employees Again
May 8th, 2008
at 9:53pm
Hello there again, Bowler4ever,
Just wanted to let you know that we do indeed still have Cosmic Bowling with the DJ, in fact he’s the same DJ that we’ve had since some time in the 70s, I believe 1977, actually. We also have the colored pins, free games, jackpot prizes, etc. It’s only on SATURDAY nights now, though. And if you don’t pay the full open bowling price, then you can’t win in any of the activities.
Now, for my personal opinion? Most bowling centers that do a rip off of Cosmic Bowling (which is only suppose to be called Cosmic Bowling, if using the Brunswick Entertainment Network system, which provides our music videos, music, etc, via satellite connection to Brunswick), or Glow Bowling, whatever they want to call it, only have just the neon/strobe lights, UV lights, and music. I’ve been to a center that just shuts off half the regular lights, turns on a small handful of UV lights, turns on their one stereo speaker, and calls that glow bowling. What a craptastic event that was.
I think we should be thankful of what Brunswick offers, compared to many smaller centers, who can’t afford much equipment, like the last one I mentioned.
The one and only thing I wish that we could have that some other bigger Brunswick centers have, is the room to store more of the colored pins. Right now on a Saturday night, we throw three colored pins in each pin setter, and that’s all. Some centers manage to replace every pin in a pin setter with colored ones, and they find a place to store the normal pins that were pulled out. We simply don’t have the storage space to keep near 1,000 colored pins needed to replace 22 pins per pinsetter.
Now, I apologize if I’ve ever come off as rude in this comment, or at any time in the past (i.e. bowling2u.com). I just don’t take well to people talking down about the center I work for, when there’s different sides to the argument that they may not know fully about.
Thank you for your time.
bowler4ever
May 27th, 2008
at 3:13pm
@ BZ Employee: Well, things have changed yet again. It seems this Brunswick now has the DJ back, the colored pins, and even a bigger jackpot prize. I’m sorry if I made you disappointed, but I had to let the stress out then.