{"id":11846,"date":"2014-05-09T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T00:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=11846"},"modified":"2014-05-03T20:05:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T20:05:28","slug":"9-holes-of-carys-top-golf-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/09\/9-holes-of-carys-top-golf-games\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Holes of Cary’s Top Golf Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOLF1\"<\/a>In honor of the recent release of Mario Golf: World Tour on 3DS, I thought I\u2019d list my top 9 favorite golf video games.\u00a0 Why 9?\u00a0 Because there are 9 holes in golf.\u00a0 Well, actually there\u2019s 18, but half that and you get 9.\u00a0 Plus I couldn\u2019t think of 18 golf games I liked.\u00a0 And when my dad used to play golf, if he didn\u2019t have all day he would just play 9 holes, so I think it\u2019s legit.\u00a0 Anyway, golf may sound like a boring sport, but there are some video golf games that I think are pretty fun.\u00a0 Just be warned that all my picks are, not surprisingly, silly and whimsical golf games.\u00a0 So you won\u2019t see any Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, or Lee Trevino on here!\u00a0 So let\u2019s tee off!\u00a0 FORE!<\/p>\n

Hole 1: NES Golf<\/strong><\/p>\n

No, we\u2019re not talking about NES Open Tournament Golf; we\u2019re talking about the old school, original Golf game on the NES.\u00a0 You know, the one where Mario looks all fat and dumpy.\u00a0 You can play it on NES Remix on Wii U.\u00a0 Anyway, this golf game isn\u2019t particularly good, but I have special memories associated with it because it\u2019s one of the only NES games I could get my dad to play.\u00a0 Well, that and Rad Racer, he liked that one, too, for some reason.\u00a0 When I bought him NES Golf, it was already pretty old so I got it real cheap.\u00a0 When NES Open Tournament Golf came out, I thought about getting him that, too.\u00a0 But I was just a kid with a limited income and couldn\u2019t afford many new games.\u00a0 But it\u2019s just as well.\u00a0 I think he was happy enough playing the original NES Golf anyway.<\/p>\n

Hole 2: Neo Turf Masters<\/strong><\/p>\n

I loved my Neo Geo Pocket Color handheld so much.\u00a0 For a while I even liked it better than Nintendo\u2019s Game Boy!\u00a0 Years later, when companies repackaged NGPC games really cheap, I got Neo Turf Masters for next to nothing.\u00a0 It\u2019s a pretty enjoyable handheld golf game.<\/p>\n

Hole 3: Ribbit King<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was originally a Japan-only PSOne game that got an enhanced port on the PS2 and GameCube, and that\u2019s when they brought it to the US.\u00a0 In this game, you actually play \u2018frog golf\u2019 and must catapult a frog with a hammer into a hole.\u00a0 There are different hammers and frogs that do different things, kind of like the clubs in golf.\u00a0 This is a very quirky, Japanese game.\u00a0 Your caddy is a walking, talking picnic basket, for instance.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the greatest, but I liked it anyway.<\/p>\n

Hole 4: Wii Sports Golf<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before Wii Sports, my favorite sports video game was Super Dodge Ball on NES.\u00a0 So it was a big deal when Wii Sports dethroned it.\u00a0 The learning curve was a little higher on the golf game, but it was still a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

Hole 5: Monkey Golf<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first two Super Monkey Ball games were fantastic, and one of the things that made them so good was the mini-games.\u00a0 These mini-games, which included Monkey Bowling and Monkey Target, were good enough as stand-alone games.\u00a0 The bowling game was so good that I never felt the need to buy another bowling game on my GameCube!\u00a0 The golf game in the first Super Monkey Ball was more like mini-golf, but I spent a lot of time with it.\u00a0 Speaking of mini-golf, I actually like playing it in real life (one of the only sports I can actually play fairly well).\u00a0 Also, in many 3-D platformers on the N64 and GameCube that featured licensed characters like Rugrats or Madagascar, they also had a mini-golf game included and some of those were actually pretty fun, too!<\/p>\n

Hole 6: Monkey Golf 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

I know this is kind of cheating, but it was hard enough for me to think of 9 golf games I liked.\u00a0 In the Super Monkey Ball sequel on GameCube, the mini-games returned, some of them as sequels.\u00a0 While the first Monkey Ball golf game was more like mini-golf, the sequel\u2019s golf was more like \u2018big boy\u2019 golf.\u00a0 But it was just as fun.\u00a0 I probably wouldn\u2019t have gotten another GameCube golf game since this was so good, but there was another that we\u2019ll talk about shortly.<\/p>\n

Hole 7: Pangaya<\/strong><\/p>\n

This unusually named game is actually a free-to-play online PC golf game.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s still around, but back when it first came out, I got into it a little bit because it featured cute characters, and you know I\u2019m a sucker for those.\u00a0 It also played a lot like Mario Golf, so it was easy to pick up and play.\u00a0 It got popular enough that some console versions were made.\u00a0 One was on the PSP, and I have that one.\u00a0 Tecmo also published a few Pangaya games on the Wii, and renamed them Super Swing Golf.\u00a0 I have those games, too, but haven\u2019t had a chance to try them out yet.\u00a0 The Wii game let you dress up your characters like other Tecmo stars, like Kasumi from DOA, Ryu from Ninja Gaiden, and even Bomb Jack!\u00a0 Capcom also made a similar Wii golf game called We Love Golf, and you could dress up your golfer like classic Capcom characters!<\/p>\n

Hole 8: Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aside from Wii Sports and Super Dodge Ball, this is probably one of my favorite sports video games ever.\u00a0 What amazed me most about this GameCube title is how good the control was.\u00a0 If you wanted your ball to land in a specific area, you could.\u00a0 They even made challenges requiring you to send your ball through rings and other targets, and while it sometimes looked impossible, the fantastic play control made it happen.\u00a0 My friends liked the game, too, and some of them even claim that this was their most played GameCube title!\u00a0 That\u2019s why I bought Mario Golf: World Tour on 3DS since the GameCube one was so good.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t played the 3DS game yet, because I\u2019m too busy playing other games like Kirby Triple Deluxe.\u00a0 But I\u2019ll get to it soon.\u00a0 And speaking of Kirby\u2026<\/p>\n

Hole 9: Kirby\u2019s Dream Course<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since I just wrote about this game last time on my Kirby blog, I\u2019m just going to cut and paste that paragraph into this blog.\u00a0 Yeah I know it\u2019s lazy, but hey, I write on average about 2 to 3 game reviews a week, so I think I\u2019m allowed to be lazy every now and then.\u00a0 But yeah, Kirby\u2019s Dream Course is my favorite golf game.<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, I didn\u2019t get hooked on Kirby games right away.\u00a0 The original Kirby\u2019s Dream Land looked cool, but I was just a kid with a limited income back then, and I didn\u2019t see a reason for me to spend full price on a game that I could probably beat in an hour.\u00a0 Even when the great Kirby\u2019s Adventure came out on NES, I didn\u2019t get it because I was already knee-deep in SNES territory, focusing more on games like Final Fantasy 2 and Secret of Mana.\u00a0 It was actually Kirby\u2019s first outing on the SNES that got me into the series, and no it wasn\u2019t Kirby\u2019s Avalanche.\u00a0 It was the other one: Kirby\u2019s Dream Course.\u00a0 Ever since I got my SNES, I would always see screens on the back of the box and posters advertising a game called Special Tee Shot, which looked like a mini-golf game mixed with Marble Madness.\u00a0 I love mini-golf and Marble Madness is one of my favorite arcade games, so I always kept my eye on it.\u00a0 Years later, when they reworked the game to have Kirby in it, I finally rented it and discovered how cool it was.\u00a0 It was then that I knew that I shouldn\u2019t pass up any more Kirby games, and I\u2019ve been a fan ever since.\u00a0 Kirby\u2019s Dream Course plays like a mix of mini-golf and bumper pool.\u00a0 You have to hit Kirby as the ball into all the enemies on the playfield, and then sink him in the hole.\u00a0 Some enemies give Kirby copy abilities when you hit them, and they\u2019ll help you bypass obstacles.\u00a0 The ice power lets Kirby skate over water hazards, for instance.\u00a0 You can even turn into a UFO and fly and land in the hole if you\u2019re skilled enough!\u00a0 Anyway, I\u2019d love to see a sequel to this.\u00a0 It could either be isometric 3-D like the first one, or they could make it be totally 3-D.\u00a0 But I think it\u2019s a good enough game idea for revisiting.<\/p>\n

Country Club Conclusions<\/strong><\/p>\n

And those are my favorite golf games.\u00a0 In the comments section, tell me what you think of my picks, and let me know YOUR favorite golf games!\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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