Ten-pin bowling duckpin bowling (conceived in 1895), popular in the Northeast United States, as well as Canada's own sport of five-pin bowling, all three of which use smaller diameter, lighter weight bowling balls when compared to tenpin bowling, without the necessity for finger holes in them. The , lane is bordered along its length by semicylindrical channels called "gutters", which are designed to collect errant balls. The overall width of the lane including the channels is . The narrow lane prevents bowling a straight line at the angle required to consistently carry (knock down) all ten pins for a strike. Most skillful
Animaniacs: Ten Pin Alley is also an option whether to have bumpers or no bumpers on the lane. If any of the characters bowl the ball properly, it will have special powers. "Animaniacs: Ten Pin Alley" got 7.1 out of 10 from "IGN", who criticized its difficulty. Animaniacs: Ten Pin Alley Animaniacs: Ten Pin Alley is a bowling video game released for the PlayStation in 1998. It is based on the 1996 video game "Ten Pin Alley" on the same system. A Nintendo 64 version was planned, but was cancelled because of the limitations of the N64 texture cache. In the opening cutscene, an