As a rule, I don’t really get into golf games. I just typically don’t find the video versions very exciting.
Golden Tee is a little different, and a bit more interactive than most golf games, so maybe that’s why I played it as much as I did. And when I say ‘interactive’ I mean that the control is a little more… involved than your typical golf game.
In a regular golf game you pick your club, press a button to start your swing, press another button (or the same button) with the right timing to dictate the power. And your golfer does his thing. In this one, you have a trackball, and your motion with it dictates the swing. You roll the ball real fast, and your golfer hits the ball harder. It’s such a simple and intuitive thing that I can hardly believe it took so long to make it into a game.
The main problem I had was that you had to pay through the nose to play this game. In the arcades I went to, you spent three tokens (or quarters) for three holes for each person playing. This meant spending a lot of money just to see the whole course, even with discounts for buying multiple holes.
But that didn’t stop me from playing the first three holes of each course over and over again. Out of the dozens of games I played, I don’t think I ever finished a round. I just didn’t have the desire to pump that much coinage into the machine. But I did manage to get a couple of ‘best shots’ in the demo mode, so that’s got to count for something, right?
Right?
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