History Maker Golf: Foursome

I have now played twice as many games with History Maker Golf than I have with any other golf game in my collection:  two.

This time I grabbed 4 golfers who I had played with in a round in ASG Golf, from the ‘2000s Stars’ set that comes with the game, and had them play at Spyglass Hill at Pebble Beach.

I’ll probably try a tournament sometime this week.

Stay tuned!

History Maker Golf: Nicklaus vs. Palmer

For my first golf match, I decided to play two of the greatest golfers in history, at the course that I’ve seen the most on TV.

Jack Nicklaus, circa 1962

Arnold Palmer, circa 1954

Admittedly, I mostly just watch the Masters, if I ever do watch golf on TV.

The two golfers come from the All-Time Greats set, which rates them based on the year they turned pro, so this is 1962 Nicklaus vs. 1954 Palmer.

Like most if not all of PLAAY’s games, History Maker Golf weaves a story as you play, at it was honestly like watching a golf match on TV.  You could hear the crowd responding to the golfer’s shots, both good and bad.  You could see the ball as it traveled from the tee, onto the fairway, and eventually on the green.

And as luck would have it, these two greats ended up in a tie after 17 holes.  And both golfers hit for par to end the round still tied.

I decided to play sudden death to determine the winner.

Palmer bogeyed the first hole.

But Nicklaus DOUBLE BOGEYED, giving Palmer the win.

I really like this game.  I’m probably going to play a few more matches with 2-4 golfers, then try the tournament mode, and then start creating my own golfers, including Happy Gilmore, Shooter McGavin, maybe myself, and any of my friends who may be interested, or who actually play golf.

Stay tuned!

Armchair Golf

Once I figure out how to create golfers in History Maker Golf, I’ll need some names to go with these golfers, much like I needed names for that wrestling federation that I created.

If you’re interested in adding your name or your nickname to my golfer list, let me know.

Stay tuned!

Football Replay

I need to find a way to play these football games in a shorter time period.

I’m only halfway through the Super Bowl LI replay, which I started around the coin toss of the actual game on Sunday.

Halftime score:
NE 10
ATL 21

I guess I can just put this aside for now, and play something else, like the new golf game.

Stay tuned!

Game Winning Drive Football: ’78 Steelers vs. ’16 Patriots

A few years back I bought the Super Bowl edition for Game Winning Drive Football by Downey Games.

GWD Football is a quick-play football game, with each roll of the dice representing a ‘drive’ by each team.  It is VERY abstract but plays satisfactorily when you don’t have time for one of the bigger football games.

I got the Super Bowl LI teams in email yesterday, and decided to play the 2016 Patriots against the 1978 Steelers instead of a Montana-led 49ers team.

Result?

1 2 3 4 OT Final
78 Steelers 0 0 0 0 0
16 Patriots 14 7 7 0 28

Hmph.  Perhaps I should pit them against a Montana-led 49ers team.

Stay tuned!

FORE!

  1. The name of a CD that I remember buying back in high school
  2. Oh, like I don’t have enough games to play:

PLAAY Games appeal to me in that they don’t use raw stats to grade a player in a game.  They generally use qualities or attributes which pretty much describe the athlete in question, in the sport in question, and through the use of charts and dice, fairly realistic results are generated.

Having never played golf (maybe for a week in high school, driving golf balls across a soccer field toward a hula hoop), I seem to have unusually high interest in golf games, as this is the fourth one in my collection, 5th if you include the one that I bought over 20 years ago and have not seen in about 15 years.

Oddly enough, I was about to pull out one of those other golf games to play with over the weekend.

The game itself comes with about 100+ golfers from the 2000s, and I ordered an all-time greats set with about 100 more.  And I got the ‘how-to’ guide to build my own courses AND create my own golfers.  If anyone wants to be included, let me know, and I’ll try to generate a card for you.

I plan to create myself, and maybe Happy Gilmore and Shooter McGavin.

Stay tuned!

SBLI

I started a Second Season football preplay of Super Bowl LI right before the game started.

I had finished the first quarter as the game ended.

And then I got the updated Super Bowl teams file from Downey Games for their Game Winning Drive Football game.

I may try to finish the Second Season one this week, while playing the GWD Football one as well.

Stay tuned!