Textfire Golf -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author(s): Adam Cadre Genre: Game Website: http://adamcadre.ac/if.html#TextfireGolf Language: en First Publication Date: 2001 License: Freeware Rating: 4.0 (based on 25 ratings) ABOUT THE STORY Stand steady at the tee... head down... slow backswing. Now, drive your tee shot 220 yards down the fairway, splitting a pair of sandtraps. Loft a five iron onto the green. And sink a twenty foot putt for a birdie! You control the swing and aim throughout 9 championship quality holes. The fairways and greens are beautifully manicured, but the sand traps are deep... and the rough is... rough! EXTERNAL LINKS golf.z5 Requires a Z-Code interpreter[1] golf.exe ACgames.zip converted to PalmOS .prc file EDITORIAL REVIEWS SPAG > [...] A halfway Z-abuse (not completely ASCII art-based like Z-snake, for > example), Textfire Golf also incorporates an interesting storyline for a > quick 9-hole game of golf. What makes this game really work though, is the > arcade-like feature of being able to control your ball's pace and > trajectory. [...] Brass Lantern > [...] The NPCs work for one of the classic reasons: your interactions with > them are carefully restricted. They don't respond to conversational gambits. > The only significant way you have to communicate with them, to impress them > or make them angry, is through your golfing behavior. At the real heart of > this game is the negotiation of your social position, which is, to people > like me, far more interesting than the problem of moving a little round ball > over uneven ground. [...] REFERENCES [1]