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50 Golf Pro 2000 Downunder (1997) – Roadshow Interactive
The final game on the list so we have exactly 50 games unless someone can dig another up. This one came out of nowhere and competes with anything we’ve seen so far. Lovely graphics, very, very similar to Links.
Set in Australia, just like the publisher and you aren’t going to miss this fact with all the koalas and kangaroos in the photos for the into. The course is quite hilly which is very well represented in the game. Some of these games can feel a bit flat (literally) but not so here. It appears to have two commentators with one in each speaker – they do repeat each other a little and aren’t quite up to PGA standards but are still more realistic than Links. The ball physics feels spot on and all in all, this is a great game to finish off with. Very impressed they came out with this as a first effort.
I’m not about to pick a favourite but it’s fair to say the games got better over the years. There is precious little real difference in gameplay going all the way back to the likes of Mean 18 or World Class Leaderboard but the courses certainly get less flat and are a better representation of the real thing by the end of this list. I’ll be going back to spend a bit of time with some of the better efforts.
I’m really curious to play a modern golf game first to see if anything has changed in the 28 years since.
