We gained a bunch of subscribers thanks to the Sega Genesis "Next 10", so now it's time to lose a few in order to keep the universe properly balanced out. I've had a fascination with golf video games ever since I got "Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach" for the NES when I was maybe 12 years old. When I got into the TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine maybe 15 years ago, I ended up with a couple of golf games for it, and ever since then I've thought it would be neat to try to collect all of them (since they're so cheap anyway).
I was finally able to realize my dream (lol) and get a copy of basically every golf game for the system. There were only 2 golf games released for the TurboGrafx-16 on HuCard, and I have both of those, but I don't have the only game released on North American Turbo CD because I have the Japanese version. There was also some anime-based interactive novel type of game released on the Super CD called "Go! Go! Birdie Chance", but I don't even really count that one because while it uses golf as a backdrop, and you do play some golf in the game, I wouldn't personally consider it a proper golf game.
Show notes:
- I tried something a little bit different with this video, in that while it features recorded voice over, I didn't write a script. Instead, when I played each game I took notes, and then I sat in front of my microphone with my notes in front of me and just talked about each game. After that I recorded a bunch of game play footage and edited it all together.
- I have to thank a viewer and Discord regular named Eric for encouraging me to make this episode. He is like me a golf game aficionado, and when I casually mentioned that it would be neat to make an episode like this, he voiced his approval.
- Speaking of which, if you hate this video and hate that I wasted your time talking about sports games for almost an hour, the person you want to talk to is called "Eric", and you can find him in the official CGQ Discord.
- Speaking of which, if you'd like an invitation to the official CGQ Discord, just shoot me an e-mail (address on the channel "About" page.) While the Discord server is tied to the Patreon page and you get an automatic invite if you sign up for that, it is not a Patreon perk and anyone is welcome to come hang out.
- Although as you can see I own physical copies of all of these games, I recorded all of the gameplay footage using my MiSTer. It's just easier.
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