![]() In others, it’s about as strategic as guessing how many marbles are in the jar on your 3rd grade teacher’s desk.īut before all that sets in, the game starts out innocently enough, namely with a stylized intro backed by Owl City’s “Clap Your Hands”. In many ways, the framework is beautifully intuitive. ![]() Or rather how the game sets you up to use its mechanics. So if I enjoyed the PS1 classic and I basically knew what I was getting into, why has the freshly rebooted Everybody’s Golf rubbed my rough the wrong way? Why did I want to rename the game to Everybody Is Good At Everybody’s Golf Except Mitch or maybe Absolutely Nobody’s Golf: Curse The Heaven’s Edition? The answer lies deeper, somewhere within the mechanics. Credit: Mitch Wallace/Sony Interactive Entertainment A 4.0 GPA meant a sweet after-school trip to Electronics Boutique at our local mall. But hey, 1998 was a solid year for the original PlayStation, and all I had was allowance, Christmas and my birthday. You know, stuff like Crash Bandicoot: Warped, Brave Fencer Musashi, Spyro the Dragon and even Bust-A-Groove. Though it’s probably because, at the time, I only received new games for special occasions, so Hot Shots Golf was likely bumped out of the running by what I thought were more “worthy” games. We just kept progressing through the same set of holes, over and over, repeat after repeat, having a blast but complaining that there was no variety. ![]() There was a short demo, consisting of maybe one or two courses at the very most, on an early PlayStation Underground disc that I played with my best friend on what felt like a perpetual loop. I actually have really fond memories of the first Hot Shots title, even though I never officially owned a copy. You underestimated my capacity to get along with others. Late ‘90s Sony, I’m a little offended, to be honest. ![]() Apparently, SCEA’s marketing team didn’t think inclusivity would move black-bottomed discs, and that we Americans are more about showing off solo than teeing off together. Everybody’s Golf has always been the Japanese moniker for the franchise, but when we got the first (and totally 32-bit) game in the US back in April of 1998, the name was changed for localization purposes. Now, I’m no stranger to Hot Shots Golf, the long-running Sony series that started way back on the PS1. ![]()
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