20 Games Like Links: The Challenge of Golf(1991)

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A hockey game released in Sweden in late 1995. The gameplay is based on the NHL games but it's starring the teams and players from the swedish hockey league Elitserien.

The fifth game, and first portable golf title, in the Everybody's Golf series.

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Grab your clubs and play a few quick holes solo, or compete with friends in an 18-hole multiplayer tournament.

With zany customizable characters and an assortment of panoramic, challenging courses, both beginner and experienced golfers will enjoy teeing it up. Need some special touch to get a leg up on the competition? Use the unique “Focus” feature to read the green and control the ball’s in-flight spin! A huge combination of game modes awaits, including stroke, cup and match play, each with local or LIVE multiplayer modes!

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Sensible Golf is a 2D golf simulation.

Having been quite successful with their cute action soccer game Sensible Soccer, Sensible Software decided that the concept of "No fuss, just fun" could be applied to other sports, too. They chose golf.

Sensible Golf is not an accurate simulation of golf, but an action adaptation of the sport streamlined for quick and easy gameplay. Consequently, complications such as wind and terrain heights are not featured, although the green has little arrows indicating the slopes. Apart from that, the player's only concerns are the water and sand hazards, and the distance to the hole. As a result, Sensible Golf is instead a practice in target shooting, rather than a golf game.

Striking involves only two action: Aiming the pointer in the desired direction, and pressing the action button three times. The game uses the well-known three-click-control, with which you set power and swerve of the strike. The computer automatically suggests a proper club, but the player may change it manually. A pop-up map helps one find their bearing.

The courses are fictional, composed from a pool of holes which often appear in multiple courses, sometimes with minor variations. Play modes include single 18-hole rounds, a complete season and a tournament. Up to 72 human players may participate in the latter.

This first game in the series was originally released in 1990 for DOS computers, 1991 for Sega Genesis, Macintosh, SNES, and Commodore Amiga, and 1993 for Sega Master System and Game Gear. It was developed and published by Electronic Arts for DOS and Macintosh, ported to Genesis, SNES, and Game Gear by Sterling Silver Software, to Amiga by Bluesky Innovations, and to Master System by Polygon Games. The Genesis/Mega Drive version features 6 professional golfers as playable or as CPU opponents; Fred Couples, Mark McCumber, Larry Mize, Joey Sindelar, Craig Stadler, Bruce Lietzke.