Just echoing my appreciation for Fuji Golf. I got to play it when I was 12 years old, in a university student computer lab while my mom went to class. My mom told me the door lock password to the lab, and I’d sneak in there when it was quiet and pretend I was a student, so I could play Microsoft Entertainment Pack games.
Fuji Golf (and Jezzball, and Rodent’s Revenge) were on there, and I had a TON of fun with them. It didn’t take long to figure out how to copy files from the university lab’s Novell Netware server drive to a floppy disk, and take pirated copies of the MEP games to play at home.
Not-DOS, yes.. but Win 3.1 is just a fancy DOS shell anyway! 😉
The other game I played a ton of – and I haven’t seen it mentioned here yet – is PGA Tour Golf (1990) by Sterling Silver Software/EA. While most people automatically think of Links 386 as the ubiquitous golf game, I think PGA Tour had a better mix of arcade and realistic gameplay. As a kid, I found Links a bit too stodgy and complex – more like a flight simulator than a golf game. The television style fly-by animation at the start of each hole absolutely blew me away as a kid, and to this day looks just wonderful.
It’s just a shame that while the intro has a gorgeous MT-32 track, the rest of the game has horrendous non-digitized PC speaker sound effects.
