A port of World Class Leaderboard
Choose from three of the world's most challenging courses. Like St. Andrews, the most revered course in golf and Doral Country Club, Florida's "Blue Monster." Or play Cypress Creek, the largest and finest in Texas.
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(why ain't the bloody MD version here)
My fam had a Model 2 Genesis passed down from our Aunt with a handful of Sonic and Pac-Man games, a shitton of Disney and sports games (like 20-30 of them complete in box somehow, jesus christ), and the Ecco games. From 2003-2010, my ass never bought any more games for it bc my parents thought online shopping was 2 steps away from hedonism or some shit, and bc Gamestop and Wal-Mart sure aren't selling cartridges.
(also our system had faulty internals that made it a crapshoot whether it would work or not, had to angle the cables just right or it died. The fam didn't understand that, so they assumed it was completely non-functional and kept it boxed up most of the time)
2011 or so hits, my birthday rolls around and I get a random genesis hyperfixation from who knows where. i didn't realize sega genesis systems were still being sold, so like a dumbass I asked mom to buy me one of those clone handhelds that plays the cartridges and has down-pitched god-awful audio. it was a dumb, immaturely-informed decision, but hey! 10-year-old me could play genesis carts again! Lion King and Triple Play 96, you guys!
At the same time, I found out a retro games and media store opened up not far from home (could've been opened before then and my dumbass didn't know but whatevs). Mom took me there the same day and told me she'd treat me to a game for it. By then, my experience with Genesis was limited to bargain bin shit and whatever was in various collections I had on other systems - never played any Streets of Rage, Shinobi or other cult classics despite having heard of them. I had to have picked something kino, right?
Fuck no, I picked the 1 dollar golf game out of fear that anything else would set off mom's "is this satanic?" alarm. Played it once and hated it, never touched it again.
2022 and I played it again, this time going through a 9-hole session. It's still not good.
In terms of robustness and gamefeel, it's like at the awkward middle ground of NES Golf and T&E Soft's 16-bit games: Somewhat feature-packed but not very intuitive or satisfying. Courses use 3D polygons combined with scaled sprites, but they're not real-time or anything, they just batch-render at the beginning of each stroke. The swing meter is sucky and not worth the energy to learn, the putting has slopes but nothing to indicate which way the slant goes, and there's no background music to speak of.
A filler shovelware golf game through and through and a damn waste of a childhood birthday gift.
My fam had a Model 2 Genesis passed down from our Aunt with a handful of Sonic and Pac-Man games, a shitton of Disney and sports games (like 20-30 of them complete in box somehow, jesus christ), and the Ecco games. From 2003-2010, my ass never bought any more games for it bc my parents thought online shopping was 2 steps away from hedonism or some shit, and bc Gamestop and Wal-Mart sure aren't selling cartridges.
(also our system had faulty internals that made it a crapshoot whether it would work or not, had to angle the cables just right or it died. The fam didn't understand that, so they assumed it was completely non-functional and kept it boxed up most of the time)
2011 or so hits, my birthday rolls around and I get a random genesis hyperfixation from who knows where. i didn't realize sega genesis systems were still being sold, so like a dumbass I asked mom to buy me one of those clone handhelds that plays the cartridges and has down-pitched god-awful audio. it was a dumb, immaturely-informed decision, but hey! 10-year-old me could play genesis carts again! Lion King and Triple Play 96, you guys!
At the same time, I found out a retro games and media store opened up not far from home (could've been opened before then and my dumbass didn't know but whatevs). Mom took me there the same day and told me she'd treat me to a game for it. By then, my experience with Genesis was limited to bargain bin shit and whatever was in various collections I had on other systems - never played any Streets of Rage, Shinobi or other cult classics despite having heard of them. I had to have picked something kino, right?
Fuck no, I picked the 1 dollar golf game out of fear that anything else would set off mom's "is this satanic?" alarm. Played it once and hated it, never touched it again.
2022 and I played it again, this time going through a 9-hole session. It's still not good.
In terms of robustness and gamefeel, it's like at the awkward middle ground of NES Golf and T&E Soft's 16-bit games: Somewhat feature-packed but not very intuitive or satisfying. Courses use 3D polygons combined with scaled sprites, but they're not real-time or anything, they just batch-render at the beginning of each stroke. The swing meter is sucky and not worth the energy to learn, the putting has slopes but nothing to indicate which way the slant goes, and there's no background music to speak of.
A filler shovelware golf game through and through and a damn waste of a childhood birthday gift.