Miniature Golf

aka: Arcade Golf
Moby ID: 19903
Atari 2600 Specs
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This is a computer game simulation of a miniature golf course. It attempts to refine your sense of timing and your perceptiveness in judging distance. As in a traditional miniature golf course, a variety of obstacles are placed in your path to the cup. Depending on the game that is selected, the course can be played solo, or a two player competition can be initiated.

Rather than a full 18 holes, this miniature golf variation has a nine-hole half-course. Your goal is clear: taking the various obstacles into account, hit the ball through the course and complete each hole by knocking the ball into the cup. The number of attempts you make for a single hole is tallied as strokes. While total strokes are unlimited, each hole still has a specific par assigned to it. So ideally, you should make it your goal to not exceed the par assigned to each hole.

Using the standard joystick controller, you can position the club to adjust the strength and angle of how the ball is hit. Remember that no matter how many strokes have accrued, it is necessary to get the ball in the cup before the game continues on to the next hole.

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Average score: 28% (based on 3 ratings)

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Average score: 1.9 out of 5 (based on 15 ratings with 1 reviews)

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The Good
The green field is evocative of astroturf

The Bad
Everything else

The Bottom Line
Atari attempts to bring home the thrill of miniature golf with a screen of boxes and, perhaps, the worst controls ever foisted on the gaming public. You attempt to put the small yellow box in the slightly larger blue box by moving an even larger blue box some distance from the yellow box. The angle and distance of the yellow box from the small blue box determines the angle and velocity of the small yellow box's movement. Somewhere in there the mini golf feel got lost.

Atari 2600 · by eratik (105) · 2016

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Game added by SirOrlando.

Windows, Xbox 360 added by Alaka.

Additional contributors: LepricahnsGold.

Game added November 10, 2005. Last modified March 12, 2024.