Reply To: Pix’s Golfing Grand Tour
Those IF games look a bit late to qualify as DOS games thankfully. The list is plenty long enough as is.
4. Golf’s Best (1985)
This started off recreating Pinehurst and then a year later got a second release with St. Andrews which is the version I ended up playing.
It’s another one typing in all the commands and are there ever a lot of them. It’s like the inerface of an Ultima game except here even the function keys all do something. Thank god for the included instructions. I’m wondering when the first game to have the usual swing interface is going to show up.
Interface aside, this one has a bit more going for it with sloping greens and much more accurate aiming. The downside is that you literally enter a clock time in to aim, right down to the individual minute. It’s kind enough to draw a line showing where that is but if you want to change it, type a whole new time again. It has a nice little animation when you hit the ball at the bottom of the screen and a few little beepy sound effects. It also zooms in when you are nearer to the hole. It’s the first game that actually feels like something someone might have paid money for.
