I'm still not sure League Bowling ever made the claims of the Neo Geo's 24-bit prowess actually believable. That along with Puzzled/Joy Joy Kid. I mean, they're good games, but they would work fine on the 16-bit poor man's Genesis. Heck, the 8-bit TG16 could do them.
Man….I’m sad to read this…
League Bowling could have been ported badly to home systems like the shitty ports of Fatal Fury, Baseball 2020, etc. I would never doubt that. You could port it to 2600, I guess. You can port MacOS to run on a HP calculator if you’re willing to make compromises everywhere.
The game uses a lot of hardware scaling that NEC and Sega had none of and Nintendo didn’t have enough of (before FX chips). Also the audio in League Bowling is sublime. The sound of League Bowling might be half the game. On Genesis and TG you’d have low spec samples cancelling each other out and on SNES you’d have that fruity reverb on everything trying to get back the atmosphere lost from the original.
Even Bust a Move Again took a hit going to the home systems, everything did if for no other reason than memory. LB is like 38 megas or something like that, small for a Neo game but bigger than almost any Genesis game.