AMF Bowling Worldwide Inc. owns and operates AMF Bowling Centres in the United States and four other countries. The centres offer multi-lane Ten-pin bowling for all ages, support league play, and often also serve food, snacks, and beverages, and sometimes other entertainments such as pool tables, air hockey tables, and/or arcade machines. Other features may include glow in the dark Xtreme Bowling, where the overhead lights are turned off and UV lights are activated along the lanes along with disco lights and music, Bumper Bowling, in which the gutters are blocked by bumpers to prevent gutterballs (usually for children or beginner players), or late night specials in which players can purchase several games in a package combo with snack food and a soft drink/soda. Image File history File links AMF_Bowling. ... Ten Pin Bowling Ten-pin bowling is a competitive sport in which a player, called a bowler, attempts to knock down as many pins as possible, thereby scoring points, by rolling a ball along a pathway called a lane. ... This article is about the various cue sports. ... Air hockey is a game for two competing players trying to score points in the opposing players goal. ... This arcade cabinet, containing Centipede, is an upright. ... Gutterball is a compound word devised from gutter and ball, which has several meanings: Gutterball is a phrase often used in American ten-pin bowling to describe a delivery that falls into one of the gutters before it reaches the pins. ... A soft drink is a drink that contains no alcohol. ...

AMF are the organisers of the world famous AMF World Cup, a prestigious ten-pin bowling event. 2004 AMF World Cup logo The AMF World Cup, now a joint partnership between Qubica and AMF (now called the Qubica/AMF World Cup), is one of the world’s largest annual international sports Ten-pin bowling championships in terms of number of participating nations, next to the Weber Cup...

AMF originally stood for American Machining Foundry and now it is just AMF.

AMF merged its automatic scoring and bowling machine business with Qubica in 2005 to form Qubica/AMF Worldwide. The bowling centers remain a separate entity of AMF.

Video Games

There are video games AMF licensed for many systems such as AMF Probowl 3D, AMF Bowling 2004 (XBOX), AMF Xtreme Bowling 2006 for PS2/XBOX and AMF Xtreme Bowling 2D/3D for mobile phone. AMF Xtreme Bowling(3D) is highly acclaimed as with most cellphone bowling games^[1], however all other games suffered many criticisms ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}.

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