Nester's Funky Bowling:

A long time ago, a spunky little boy named Nester ruled the pages of the American Nintendo Power magazine's comic section. Conceited as ever, Nester is breaking into the new genre of video games with the first 3D bowling game.

Shine your shoes and buff your ball, you're going bowling! Nester and his twin sister, Hester, treat you to a fantastic game of knock-the-pins-down. This 3D bowling experience is fast paced and red hot. Both bowlers are competitive and very involved in their games. You'll agree as you witness some of their Funky expressions. Are you up to a challenge?

I think they should have at least put in a comic intro, Nester being from that fame, but alas the very funny in-game animations make more than up for it, top stuff when you see how much Hester and Nester gesture and put up funky expressions when you've thrown the ball! Some are 2D others 3D, but most notable some of those animations even come with crystal clear voice samples who have a nice Americano accent to them.

In the game you get to choose from three different soundtracks which you'll hear while you bowl, all very funky (do you see a trend here?) and fun to listen to. But ultimately you'll get enough of them when you try to concentrate on throwing a strike, which is why there's the option of turning the background soundtrack off.

Besides that it's nice to know the game follows the all the laws of bowling and keeps a frame-by-frame scoring. You'll also get plenty of options to set to your own liking. 
Mode: Select 1 Player or 2 Players (alternating after each frame);
Game: Select Bowl (normal game of bowling), Practice (set up pins to practice your skills), or Challenge (practice computer generate shots).

But just before you can start you have to enter your name, select if you want to play with Nester or Hester, switch to a left- or right-handed bowler and even select the weight of your ball! Ranging from 8 to 16 pounds. All very realistic.

The most fun option of all is that the game has a 1-2 alternating players option, so you and a friend can compete against each other, which is a welcome change from the lone time behind your VB without others knowing what the heck you're doing.

The player, bowling ball, and pin movements are all as fluid as they would be for real. A big thumbs up for all the perfectly performed 3D positioning and environment, which granted all comes down to just that one bowling alley. But in the end you just got to love the sweet sound of a Striiiiiike!  And THAT'S what you will want to come back for. Hope you win that cup.

In short: Definitely a worthwhile game for the bowlingfans, and even if you're not into bowling it'll be a funky 3D experience on the bowling alley, but not more fun than real bowling. Having said that, you can decide for yourself if you want this game to play or for in your US Virtual Boy collection. At least it shows this game together with 3-D Tetris is a second-generation game by the usage of 3-D in the game. Both of these were the only VB games to be released in 1996.

My opinion:  Funky  Bowling with Nester & Hester is as funky as bowling can get. I think it's only  funky  fun for a  funky  little while, but a funky little while at that.