Description
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.
Links catapulted to the top rung of the golf simulation ladder and the series has managed to stay there for over a decade.
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Trivia
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)
