Links: The Challenge of Golf (1990)
Links: The Challenge of Golf is a 1990 simulator video game made by Access Software and Papyrus Design Group.
Links redefined what golf on the PC should look and play like; it migrated golf from a sports game to a simulation. Good use of VGA's 256 colors made for a realistic course with trees, water, sandtraps, and the fairway. The addition of ball physics, mulligans, changing the lie of the ball, real digitized environmental sounds (even through the PC speaker), and the ability to view a replay (even from multiple angles) gave PC golf games a new echelon of quality to match.
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What is Links: The Challenge of Golf about?
Links redefined what golf on the PC should look and play like; it migrated golf from a sports game to a simulation. Good use of VGA's 256 colors made for a realistic course with trees, water, sandtraps, and the fairway. The addition of ball physics, mulligans, changing the lie of the ball, real digitized environmental sounds (even through the PC speaker), and the ability to view a replay (even from multiple angles) gave PC golf games a new echelon of quality to match.
When was Links: The Challenge of Golf released?
Links: The Challenge of Golf was released on 31 December 1990.
Who made Links: The Challenge of Golf?
Links: The Challenge of Golf was made by Access Software, Papyrus Design Group and Virgin Interactive Entertainment.