Links: The Challenge of Golf

31.12.1990
Genre: Simulator Sport
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.

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31.12.1991

Links: Championship Course: Firestone Country Club is a golf course add-on for Links: The Challenge of Golf. The add-on features the South Course of Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio.

31.12.1991

Links: Championship Course: Pinehurst Resort & Country Club is an golf course add-on for Links: The Challenge of Golf. The add-on features Pinehurst #2 course of Pinehurst Country Club, located in Pinehurst, North Carolina, USA.

31.12.1991

Links: Championship Course: Bay Hill Club & Lodge is an golf course add-on for Links: The Challenge of Golf. The add-on features the Bay Hill Club located in Orlando, Florida.

31.12.1992

Additional course for Links: The Challenge of Golf, featuring the Troon North Country Club, located in Scottsdale, Arizona.

31.12.1991

Links: Championship Course: Barton Creek is a golf course add-on compatible with Links: The Challenge of Golf, Links 386 Pro and Microsoft Golf. The featured 18 hole course is the Fazio Course located in Barton Creek, designed by architect Tom Fazio. The course is one of the four championship courses located at the Barton Creek Country Club in Austin, Texas. Also included is a photo tour of the Barton Creek course and facilities.

31.12.1991

Links: Championship Course: Bountiful Golf Course is a golf course add-on for Links: The Challenge of Golf. The add-on features the Bountiful Municipal Golf Course located in Bountiful, Utah.

31.12.1991

Links: Championship Course: Hyatt Dorado Beach Resort is an expansion pack for Links: The Challenge of Golf.

31.12.1993

An add on course for Links, Links 386 Pro and Microsoft Golf. Banff Springs Golf Club is located in Alberta, Canada. Designed in 1928 by the late Stanley Thompson, one of the worlds most foremost golf architects, Banff features a course which rolls gently along the Bow river under the snow capped peaks of Sulphur Mountain, Mountain Rundle and Tunnel Mountain.

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Links (last 3 games)

11.11.2003

Links, the best-selling golf franchise for the personal computer, has been rebuilt—from the ground up—exclusively for the Xbox video game system. Links 2004 delivers one of the most realistic and competitive golf experiences for Xbox. Golf fans worldwide can compete online in friendly matches with old golfing buddies or compete in tournaments against the best golfers in the world via Xbox Live. Links 2004 also features top championship courses and top professionals, including cover athlete Sergio Garcia.

30.09.2003

This is a compilation of Links 2003 and Links 2003: Championship Courses. It has the 6 original courses that were in Links 2003 plus the additional 20 from Championship Courses.

19.09.2002

The newest version for the Links golf series featuring new swing types like the real time swing, ultimate realistic graphics, career play playing with real golf players or created ones, a strong multiplayer community increases the online play experience and a practice facility for the new players.

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31.12.2020

CONNECTING GOLFERS, GAMERS, AND FANS TO THE FUTURE OF GOLF E6 CONNECT is the highest-quality, most lifelike and customizable golf software ever created. Use it with launch monitors to teach or train on the driving range, to compete in leagues and online events at a commercial facility, or just play fun games at home with friends and family. E6 CONNECT features stunning 4k graphics and more flexibility, customization and control than ever before. What makes our new generation of golf software truly revolutionary is its massive network designed to connect golfers around the world, from private peer-to-peer play to custom to global tournaments.

27.08.2019

Award winning Cloudlands: VR Minigolf has an official sequel that's bigger and better than ever. Cloudlands 2 builds off of the fun of playing and building minigolf courses and adds the ability to play full sized golf courses. Arm yourself with a putter, wedge, and driver and hit the links in the clouds.

21.05.2019

Step on to the course like never before in the most immersive Everybody’s Golf experience yet!

31.12.1979

Pro Golf 1 is a single player golf game featuring an eighteen hole golf course. Each hole is drawn using the Apple II's low resolution graphics mode and includes hazards such as water and sand traps. The keyboard is used to play the game. First the player has to enter which club to use and then shots are taken by entering the angle (0-360) of each shot. When putting, the length of the put is also entered. The game consists of three parts: front nine, back nine and an intro. The first two include all the holes of the Silicon Pines Golf Course while the intro program contains instructions as well as a driving range and a putting green.

31.12.1984

An golf simulation for 1 to 4 players written by John Horan and published by Adventure International.

31.12.2001

Golden Tee Classic was produced by Incredible Technologies in 2001.

13.09.1996

The final golf game for SNES from T&E Soft. The cartridge contains the SA-1 enhancement chip, so there are less waits during gameplay, graphics are also improved. In previous work, the terrain that had been drawn as flat polygon became a more of a pointillist style painting. There were many interface improvements and the main controls moved from a window to being displayed around the player sprite.

15.09.2006

Leaderboard Golf is a typical golf game with courses inspired by the European and US Tour. Included are four different modes of play: quick round, match play, championship mode and practice Mode. Leaderboard Golf delivers the best in realistic ball physics and swing control as well as a host of stunning courses to play! The intuitive swing system allows control of your back-swing and follow-through for the perfect shot as well as the ability to angle the club-face for all the hook, slice or fade you'll need.

31.12.1995

Microsoft Golf 2.0 (or Multimedia Edition) improved the graphics as well as adding video segments, more voiced samples and sounds for a more interactive experience. The layout of the UI is also changed a bit but the game largerly remained the same.

01.03.1986

Mean 18 is a golf video game designed by Rex Bradford with graphics by George Karalias, both of Microsmiths, and released by Accolade for MS-DOS compatible operating systems in 1986. It was ported to the Amiga, Apple IIGS, Atari ST, and Macintosh. It includes an editor allowing players to create their own courses. In 1989, Atari Corporation published a port for the Atari 7800 console. A version for Atari 8-bit computers was in development in 1989 but was cancelled.