Description
Links: The Challenge of Golf is a golf simulation that tries to implement realistic aspects of golf in a video game format.
The game uses VGA 256-color graphics, with courses containing trees, water, sand traps, and the fairway. The addition of ball physics, mulligans, changing the lie of the ball, real digitized environmental sounds, and the ability to view a replay (from multiple angles) helps to emphasize the realistic aspect.
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When Access made Links, they were really serious this time. According to the back of the manual, here's what it takes to design a Links course:
Play the course. Take over 500 aerial and landscape photos. Videotape the entire course. Obtain topographical and grading drawings. Gather information about prevailing winds and weather. Convert topographic maps into terrain data. Locate greens, tee boxes, bunkers, hazards, etc. Digitize actual vegetation found on the course and place appropriately along with other objects. Use a specially designed course editor to smooth and refine original terrain data. Digitize and install panorama. Install tee markers, ball washers, benches, clubhouse, etc. Playtest and refine for accurate course representation.
This process takes two men months to complete and generates approximately 700,000 bytes of course data--10 times more than other golf games! (...in 1990, anyway -- Editor)
