I was always a Nintendo kid growing up, so going back and finding out that this was basically Camelot's prototype to Mario Golf 64 blew my mind. Everything about it resembles Mario Golf, from the overlay to the graphics to the camera angles to the sound effects. Really cool stuff.
When I was little and I played this game and saw the sun beams as you shot the ball, I remember being SO impressed thinking “wow… graphics can’t get any better than this” hahaha
This was originally developed by Camelot Software Plaining the company who developed the Mario Golf and Mario Tennis series. They first started as a Sega subsidiary before they became the name we all know as.
I remember playing the 9 hole demo on my PS1 back in the day. I got an Albatross on the second hole, but never a hole in one. Very relaxing game to play.
Motoi Sakuraba was-and still is-one of 🇯🇵’s top composers who composed 🎶 for both WolfTeam (later Namco Tales Studio) and Camelot Software Planning. Among the games Sakuraba did the score for are El Viento, Mario ⛳️, 🥵 Shots ⛳️ (Everybody’s ⛳️ in 🇯🇵) and Mario 🎾.
I had this game back in the day. I was pretty good at the game, beat all my friends at it. Havent been into the series since. Now I try to catch up and play the Ps3 versions. Everybodys Golf 5 & 6. Amazing games.
Playing through this right now. I'm so used to Mario Golf. Everything I know in that game is messing me up in this one. But I love this game. I like playing Mary Ralf Buzz and Susan
And it's HARD once you get to the last few Japanese characters at the very end. I only managed to beat Vader one time and that was a long time ago. I played through the game again much later on but I gave up once I reached Cougar.
I hated this game _(and maybe just a little nowadays)_ . the atmosphere was so vague it give me chills. I dunno, its something about those bird sounds playing repeatedly. Plus the campus is shown in the middle of nothing, like a dune. Anyways, childhood trauma lol