ADG Episode 205 - Mean 18

[@seahawksanders]

One of the few games I ever got to play with my dad. Thanks for the memories.

[@LGR]

I friggin' love DOS golf games. Dunno why, but it's _the_ most appealing way to play virtual golf to me.

[@Pixelmusement]

+Lazy Game Reviews Personally, I wish more came of the game "Golf?" because I really loved the aesthetics and club mechanics of that one. Rocket Juice FTW! 8D

[@michaelg2502]

@@Pixelmusement Yep, it's on Steam as Golf for Workgroups now lol

[@Pixelmusement]

+Michael Giblock And has been in early access for 2 1/2 years... Hopes are not high that it will ever be finished, but at least what's there is pretty much the same game as before. :B

[@andyclarkable]

brings back memories of my dad, grandpa, and uncles all playing this game. One time they were in the middle of a game and it was dinner time. i finished early, and rushed back to the computer and took my uncle's shot from 2 feet from the pin with a driver apparently, and it hit the pin dead on, and did the weird animation where it just ricocheted repeated off the pin and went in. (I was 6)

[@kitt5329]

I've been trying to figure out what golf game I use to play as a kid and this is it!!! Thanks for sharing!

[@PumpkinStrikesBack]

ADG is one of my favorite youtube show nowadays!

[@ADarkandStormyNight]

yeah me too, one of the only channels I look forward to lately

[@StephanS]

Aside from a very special taste in games, the reviews are very detailed and technical.

[@Mahaveez]

Ahh...I'll never forget the time I got a slam on the second stroke of a par-5 hole. My jaw dropped...I couldn't believe it was possible! They only talk about these things in legends! It slammed straight in the hole, no bounces. It was just unbelievable!!

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

Links Golf and Microsoft Golf were my childhood. This game I never went into, because I was more into newer and more realistic looking golf games at the time I got my start in PC gaming, which I believe was back in early 1991.

[@Eshaktaar]

3:29 Holy blocky pixels that make C64 graphics look like high resolution, Batman!

[@josephfanning1241]

I had this game on my first computer! I remember that little gopher.

[@BeyondTheScanlines]

Unti you mentioned the CGA composite support, I was initially giving it a bit of an odd look with those chunkier graphics. I do have to admit, I really did dig the faux-rotation of the view - I don't really remember many golf sims from the era which actually did that…

[@Pixelmusement]

+hellfire64 I don't think there's any. I'm, fairly certain this was also one of the first games to have a properly rendered 3D view, as opposed to just faking one, but that was harder to determine which is why I didn't comment on it. :B

[@BloodyCactus]

I remember playing Leaderboard on C64, I think it came out same year as this? 86? they make for an interesting comparison

[@holden6104]

Never had any interest in golf as a kid, but still played the crap out of this.

[@michaelg2502]

You can use woods from sand but it is pretty rare, hybrids are common now though. Deep rough is always more penalizing than sand though in real life, so that's accurate. I like the power bar and how it's harder to gauge perfect distance 80% and above. That's how it is in real life, it's hard to take just a little bit off a shot.

[@stillgaming]

The Tandy 1000 SX was my computer for years. Now I suddenly remember that I wasted countless hours playing Leaderboard Golf. Other games like Quest for Glory ran also, but barely. 7.16 MHz of RAW POWER!!

[@Pixelmusement]

+Still Gaming Ours had a 286 Express Card built-in, which essentially took over the functions of the 8088 CPU and ran twice as fast... at least until we later upgraded to DOS 6.2 which wasn't compatible with the software to use the Express Card. Whoops. :P

[@andrewmjenner]

The "two greys being the same" could be related to composite CGA. When using the standard CGA composite mode, the is in fact only one shade of grey (bit patterns 5 and 10 both give a 50% grey). If they did the composite CGA mode first and then based the EGA mode on that (choosing the closest EGA colour to each composite CGA colour) that could explain it. However, that doesn't explain why the two greys are represented by different colours on RGBI CGA. Weird!

[@Pixelmusement]

+andrewmjenner There's probably a perfectly valid reason which will remain a mystery for all eternity. :B

[@NickeP86]

Can this game be played on Windows 98 in DOS mode? Anyone who knows?

[@Pixelmusement]

+Niklas Pihl It should work, but the sound effects may not play back properly and anything transition/animation related may go super-fast. :B

[@NickeP86]

Thank you for your answer! Which type of computer are recommend to play these kinds of games? Does it works better with an 486DX22/66? Cheers!

[@Pixelmusement]

+Niklas Pihl I actually recommend just using DOSBox on a modern system since if you want to go with real hardware you'll need multiple setups if you want to cover the whole spectrum of DOS games. If you MUST have a real system, but don't have the room/money for more than one, put one together that will more closely cover the era of DOS games you enjoy the most, or most want to have real hardware for playing.

[@feamatar]

Have you heard about PCem? That's the best PC emulator along with its derivative 86box right now, on the rare occasion DOSBox has inaccuracies you can rely on PCem solving your issues. I would also suggest to make a review of that program, there isn't much online yet.

[@Pixelmusement]

+feamatar I have heard of PCem I just keep forgetting it's an option any time I run into issues since I run into issues so infrequently. ^_^;

[@Sonict11]

I had this game on the Amiga 500. I do remember going into the editor at one point and... I edited all the trees to be a giant all black square! And yes... I saved it... Oops! The silly things you do when you are young!

[@Pixelmusement]

+Sonict11 Case in point: Most of my 5 1/4" disk sleeves are mixed up and have childhood writing on them, so I'm constantly shuffling them around to show good ones whenever I present any such disks on video. :P

[@667illin]

Where OB was red and greens were light blue.

[@Solis4Champ]

live streams soon?? please?! :)

[@TheMoogleMaster]

With a name like Mean 18 I thought this would be related to Wicked 18.

[@Doiteify]

You may want to invest in a 5' Floppy Interface Cable to USB Cable for your older games. I bought one years ago for 30 dollars and you would be suprised at how often I still use it (Mind you it also supports IDE and SATA).

[@Pixelmusement]

+Doiteify It's not really TOO imperative; I have access to most of my 5 1/4" games through other means. That said, when I started ADG almost seven years ago, options for connecting a 5 1/4" drive to a computer were severely lacking, but that's definitely improved since then. :B

[@anonamatron]

I loved this game on my Amiga. The Amiga version looked and sounded a whole lot better than this though...

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

Funny, I'd never heard of this golf game - and I had (and still have the disks for!) a bunch of different golf games back in the MS-DOS days. (PGA Tour Golf, Links, MS Golf...) Yet, I never learned to play golf for real! (Tried a couple times, was *TERRIBLE*.)

[@Pixelmusement]

+Anonymous Freak I know how to play golf for real but I wasn't too great at it, plus due to unrelated knee injuries from when I was a teenager I'm not able to do a proper golf swing without collapsing to the ground in pain so... probably never going to learn to play better. Ah well; I prefer mini-putt anyways. :B

[@1xWertzui]

The graphic assets scream so blatantly C64 conversion that it's almost painful.