User Summary Simple 1500 Series Vol. 18: The Bowling is a Japanese PlayStation budget title published by D3 Publisher and developed by Tamsoft. It was also released in the United States as Bowling by Agetec. As the name states, it is a bowling game for one to four players. There are a few different variations in the game. There is Standard game (uses standard bowling rules), Quest game (try to beat different 3-pin set-ups), and Special game (there are 45 pins rather than 10 per frame and the player is given 3 balls per frame to knock down all of the pins).