Great Golf on the Master System | Octavius King

[@samuellawrencesbookclub8250]

4 Octavius videos in as many weeks? Truly this is a blessed age

[@raijin2950]

I hope this means shes doing well.

[@glarynth]

"How do golf players not make innuendos nonstop?" We do. It's pretty much a requirement.

[@Grayvorn]

With that statement, you have restored my faith in the sporting world.

[@Relugus]

"Think you can get it inside mine?" - Craig Stadler

[@michaelgeorge6559]

Wow, that takes me back. The original three games we had for our Master System when we got it were Great Golf, Great Baseball, and Phantasy Star. Odd collection. We didn't know any better as kids.

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

Great Ferret Legging review when? Lovely stuff!

[@oldhedders]

Did a double-take when I saw that.

[@DevinGates]

Right after the review for Great Shirling

[@zh84]

And did it have a special controller?

[@ZakTDuck]

@@zh84 Yes! It's for all intents and purposes a predecessor to the Rez Trance Vibrator, only with sharp teeth.

[@philstraintravels9281]

I always love it when creators take the time to hide a joke in plain sight.

[@slopesgameroom]

I played sooooooo much Great Baseball back in the day

[@RetroAmateur1989]

"great" sounds like a line of discount products of varying types. Like, "great toilet paper", "great cola" and the best of all "great hand lotion".

[@ThomTomful]

"The Mega Cartridge" means it's 128kb large. You should try something like Out Run, which is an incredible 'Two-Mega Cartridge'. It's twice as mega as Great Golf will ever be.

[@GeoNeilUK]

"Well, I'm at the swinger's club... why are none of you dressed for golf? ...in fact, why are none of you dressed?!"

[@tahustvedt]

He actually throws tufts of grass to check the wind direction? Best golf game ever.

[@maya60778]

It's actually the Golf version of Salt Bae....... Golf Bae

[@verficationaccount]

I hadn´t checked into this channel for a while until recently - and I have to say that I really really like every single video! The jokes, the ideas, the info-bits - it´s just perfect! Thanks for making these!

[@AdrianWoodUK]

2:09 - " is just the cool-sounding name Sega gave to their Master System cartridges." It may have started that way... I'm unsure... but this definitely wasn't the case across the range, where it usually referred to the size of the cartridge itself. So "The Mega Cartridge" or "The One-Mega Cartridge" (As in Fantasy Zone: The Maze) meant it held 1 megabit of data, "The Two-Mega cartridge" (like Space Harrier) meant it held 2 megabits, and "The Four-Mega Cartridge" (like After Burner) meant it held 4 megabits - there were, as far as I know, never any 1 megabyte (8 megabit) or larger Master System carts. Great Golf, was, indeed, 1 megabit, so the pattern matches here. Some games just said "The Sega cartridge" , which generally meant they were under a megabit in size - My Hero (which had this) was only about 32 kilobytes! Later on, a lot of games dropped the subtitle altogether, presumably alongside Sega loosening their stylistic guidelines on cases in general.

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

That's good to know! In recent years I've heard about new cartridges having more memory on them but wasn't sure if it was a thing back in the day... now I know that the "Mega" thing makes sense. Sneaky that it's bits not bytes :)

[@googaagoogaa12345678]

I assume max 330 mega on the neo geo bootup means the same thing?

[@AdrianWoodUK]

@@googaagoogaa12345678 Yup! The system was originally designed to handle carts of up to 330 Megabits. Some games exceeded that using "bank switching" (basically, splitting the data of the game into chunks of less than 330mb and swapping between them as needed), and apparently they could change the bootup sequence accordingly.

[@petrolhead0387]

You may not be able to beat Tiger Woods on the golf course. But you could probably beat him in a car race.

[@rtsgod]

yeah i was like i guess she made a whoops. haha

[@shia_labeouf]

Golf still uses yards, even in the UK. It's one of those sports that's hanging on to tradition even to its own detriment.

[@JohnRineyIII]

I'll never understand why the graphic designers thought hey, we should make all the covers look like a high school kid doodling on his graph paper.

[@TheSonicsean]

I can't tell which is dumber. The one where the player completely missed the ball or whatever Pro Wrestling is

[@jsc315]

These bunch of videos in the last few weeks have been a lot of fun.

[@DarkSphinxx]

looks like your medication has finally kicked in because you are crushing it with the uploads

[@maxcooper6554]

3:38 Thank you for that! I needed that image to brighten my dull day! Thanks again Oc!

[@StuartCGadgetRev]

“Foot fingers”. I thank you, that will now be part of my daily vocabulary. Entertaining and informative!

[@lewisd5004]

My partner's learning about bones with a course she's doing through work. I've learnt through her foot fingers are actually called metatarseholes. I know that's not the correct spelling but I'm keeping it.

[@UnknownXero]

So glad you are making videos often again. It just brightens my day when my notification pops and it's you

[@monkshoodable]

Living in Toronto, which has both the influence of the Commonwealth, ad well as numerous South Americans, means SMS and its games and parts are actually quite available.

[@Sedric-and-Charlie]

Sega's history of cumbersome, unwanted add-ons turns out to stretch further back than I had thought

[@TheTomimt]

I bet Tiger Woods was at that club.

[@gbraadnl]

14:03 Great Soccer -> Sports Pad Play Optional, so that is an additional game that supports it ?

[@robotface74]

how do you not have more subscribers? your videos are very informative and entertaining.

[@Larry]

Golf games are really just there for Dads. Dad games that you'd mention to lure your father into buying whatever console you were after. But it had a "sort of" sequel too, Golfamania.

[@Agamemnon2]

And it totally works too. My dad's never played a console game in his life, unless you count the couple of goes he had at Duck Hunt and Wii Sports, but I guarantee he'd be down to at least watch me play a modern golf game on the PS4, if not give it a bash himself.

[@Cmm4626]

Word up so true haha

[@cjtquk]

Golfamania was good

[@BobMonkeypimp]

Really appreciate that you've been uploading so much recently. Thank you.

[@ProBreakers]

Just love finding a new content creator with a large back catalog and getting to work my way through hours of great new videos. 👍

[@geekforeverpixelgamingsurl5007]

You're being very productive. Very good! *Throws confetti*

[@hdestotallyunoriginalgamin3555]

I actually played golf for a bit in the '90s. My thinking was that eccentric rock stars, presidents of the United States and captains of industry all played it, so maybe if I tried it, I'd be that successful. Just sold my clubs on Ebay. It was surprisingly hard. To sell the clubs, I mean. Not golf. Except, golf is hard. I was crap at it.

[@CeeJayThe13th]

I mean golf is kinda dumb anyway

[@hdestotallyunoriginalgamin3555]

@@CeeJayThe13th - I'll say. I never got to hang out with billionaires ONCE.

[@dykodesigns]

Talking about getting hit by a golf ball, there is a game where that happens. It’s the first stage of Ninja Rabbits, a rather obscure and not so good budget game for various systems such as the C64. I’ve got the MS DOS version, it was hard to avoid the golf balls.

[@dogeymon83]

You have to hit the meter at the right time versus just setting the bar how you want cuz……that’s more true to how the sport is played. I don’t program a robot to take the shot in real life so I can’t program a game the same. Otherwise I’m just gonna set it perfect every time and it won’t be a challenge.

[@sourcecode6467]

I always take an extra pair of trousers when I play golf, in case I get a hole in one

[@AstraVex]

4:55 To be fair, this is actually the best idea to trick people and POP out as a bunker-monster! 😃

[@phil1s]

Octy has begun her golden age!

[@mattlamb]

I always need more more stroke than usual to finish

[@grahamstavers5130]

I used to have a master system controller in that condition, used it for some c64 and amiga games as removing the dpad cover meant you could cheat at games that involved waggling the joystick by pressing down on the left and right pads at the same time.

[@hyzenthlay7151]

I am really curious about Great Ferret Legging... Sounds like one hell of a hidden gem to me...

[@Harbourmaster68]

Loved this - my first proper Octavius video

[@grantm902]

not to be confused with banned Animal Hospital spinoff, "Rate Rolf"

[@SMlFFY85]

I never owned a Master System but growing up I was always kind of fascinated by the minimalist box artwork for the games.

[@lmcgregoruk]

@Karl Burnett I remember they had the "genre?" in the corner, like "sports" or "action", a white cover with black grid lines, and then maybe one picture of whatever the game was about, like a Ninja and the title at the top.

[@NintendoComplete]

Great Ferret Leggings?! I *must* have this game!

[@hjalfi]

Woah, woah, it's not what you think. It's 'Legging', not 'Leggings' --- rather than being about putting the trousers on the ferret, it's about putting the ferret in the trousers.

[@nickalotdegit]

@@hjalfi I don't care! Somebody must review this! :D'''''

[@calderarecords]

Oh Octy. You are so worthwhile. Honest, modest, vulnerable & sagacious. You care beyond the mundane & maintain a great sense of humour through enthusiasm it seems. Your haggard & scruffy costumes prove there is no way for you to look anything other than mesmerizing! lol!

[@almightyk11]

Look at you releasing frequent content. So happy for you ^_^

[@cinocefalo284]

1:05 A cow falling from sky? Earth worm Jim, are you still there?

[@Caddy666]

Dunno Octavius, we live in Great Britain, seems, kind of par for the course, pun entirely intended...

[@travismcdowell8352]

I enjoyed this game! I wish I owned a Master system when I was younger. I'm from the states

[@Capsulecorp1]

You are known as the attractive & entertaining version of the Angry Video Game Nerd.

[@shanewilliams9122]

You are one of the best. Keep these brilliant videos coming.

[@thesman32]

4:50 What do you mean the game doesn't want to tell you what the difference between the clubs are, what do you think those numbers are on the right next to the clubs with YD or next to them are, that is the strength of the clubs, you pick some long hitting clubs some medium hitting clubs and some short hitting clubs, and BANG you got yourself a game of golf.

[@CJJC]

Great Golf, Marty!

[@gigteevee6118]

Bogey men at 8:44 and beyond are frankly terrifying!!!

[@Drubnubjagr]

I could only hear "Face Bum" from that voice clip

[@Nerdthagoras]

I remember hearing yanny as a kid but now it just sounds like laurel.

[@hhdev]

Great golf was the first cartridge I had for the master system, back in '88. 11 years old. Fun time it was.

[@patton2773]

I wonder if the pad works with Marble Madness 🤔

[@NickShvelidze]

I'm so glad I discovered your channel from an Ashens video all that time ago.

[@RettMikhal]

That swinger joke was marinated perfectly.

[@TJBrumfield]

They are dressed for stroke play. But you can only have so many players on a hole at a time.

[@billygow5349]

good to see you making videos again and i loved the master system

[@benjamindurden481]

Beware the deadly bovine, falling slowly from the sky! You can choose the way you live, my friend, but not the way you die!

[@TotoGuy-Original]

Great video keep doing these love your humor makes perfect sense. well done!

[@Yesterzine]

It was "World Soccer" in the UK too. Great Soccer was card only in the UK and is as different as the two Great Golfs. Thanks Sega!

[@15-Peter-20]

Neo geo turf masters is the best 👌

[@johnsensebe3153]

Today I learned that throwing game boxes at people in slow motion stock footage cracks me up.

[@SsnakeBite]

1:03 - I choose to believe this was an Earthworm Jim reference.

[@MikeStavola]

This is why I have a copy of Great Golf for the SMS. It was $0.25 US.

[@BarbarianGod]

9:30 I thought it was saying "fetch them" or something

[@williamwright9079]

Fist pump! I reckon lolz.

[@squeakyelbows]

It took me way too long to figure out that Great Ferret Legging was a joke.

[@georgehilty3561]

YAY!! Another octavius video!!

[@yeoldenew]

Lot’s a good stuff all the time, love it

[@frankowalker4662]

I bought, (yes, paid money for) a Golf game in 1982 for the ZX81 that boasted realism and a thrilling game. It was text only, with minimal instructions. I loaded it once. It assumed you knew all about golf clubs. The best game of golf, (in my oppinion), is in GTA V. I play that for many hours.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Another great upload, no pun intended.

[@Kingsly9802]

They could've been doing trackball golf a decade before Golden Tee Golf hit arcades, and instead we got trackball Great Football.

[@sonixthatsme]

I can try to print a new d-pad for you.(edit) found it, which color?

[@Neffers_UK]

"Great Ferret Legging", OMG STOP! That's hilarious.

[@chaospoet]

That's the golf course on the side? I thought it was a random picture from Microsurgeon on the Intellivision!

[@singaporesammy]

The strangest part is that golf is one of the few games that actually works pretty well with a trackball.

[@gameslappers]

PGA tour golf on the MS was fun

[@gbraadnl]

3:10 Golf can be quite intense you know. Hope it's not a CVA.

[@01302]

Awesome video as always.. Really should know the distance of a yard in the UK though, road signs all use them.. Humps for 250 yards is a personal favourite.

[@bernietea]

Take a shot after every sexual innuendo, unintentional or not.

[@ddjsoyenby]

but i don't wanna d13 by booze p01s0n1ng.

[@EdinMike]

I actually had Great Soccer and Great Basketball as a kid and they weren’t bad, I mean I vividly remember playing them so must have been ok !

[@BritishVideoGameNerd]

Great video as usual Octy. Just thought I'd mention about the Sports Pad controller can be used with Marble Madness even on the Sega Genesis.

[@prosfilaes]

A yard is an American word for meter. There aren't that many cases where the difference matters.

[@DocZFlux]

I wonder if it says something that we never got a mini of the Master System

[@TheDarkVampire666]

Thank you for that legend story as I live in Great Yarmouth it will help me sleep 😜😁

[@cubey]

During the first confetti bit, and ad for a vacuum cleaner came on.

[@theflyingninja1]

Nice. More Master System reviews please 👍

[@wolfsbane-rw7um]

Golf, possibly the only game where you can ask someone: Hey, got wood?

[@DavidCowie2022]

"Settlers of Catan," the board game where you can ask people "Got wood for sheep?"

[@orcwarchiefreviews]

If you want to make a golf game more fun just play some Slayer as your background music it makes any golf game actually playable

[@ddjsoyenby]

it makes all games instantly better.

[@thezood]

The + character faced children are now my new favorite children.

[@oldhedders]

So, next video is a Dark Souls speedrun on a Sega Sports Pad?

[@SteveBrandon]

I want to say that I rented Great Golf once around the same time that my late father got a totally legit and not a copied floppy (wink wink) version of World Class Leader Board for PC with relatively crystal clear digitized voices even through our non-sound card-expanded IBM PS/2 internal speaker courtesy of Access Software's "RealSound". I'm not exactly sure if this was the case (we had the Sega Master System at least a year before we got the PS/2 computer) but, even if I had played Great Golf some time earlier (not sure), obviously, World Class Leader Board blew Great Golf out of the water, both graphically and gameplay-wise (plus the RealSound audio but I already mentioned that, although the Sega Master System should have at least sounded better than an IBM PS/2 without a sound card). The Sega Master System port of Electronic Arts' PGA Tour Golf looks amazing in comparison, not as good as World Class Leader Board but that was running on a proper computer.

[@ninjacat230]

Now it's time for Pebble Beach golf Links on the saturn

[@ChrisFranklyn]

Once I discovered you could hit the reset button before the ball landed to retake the shot for free my scores were somewhat lies on this.

[@adultmoshifan87]

I first saw this game on a Sega Mega Tech cabinet at a leisure center in Gravesend in 1999!

[@Thrakus]

Great Friday The 13TH , Someone make that romhack happen!

[@philsmith3261]

The Japanese version of Great Golf is my fave 8 bit golf game.

[@LaurenGlenn]

Wasn't Mega cartridge = 1Mb = 128kB of storage ?

[@TruculentSheep]

08:52 - That Dominic Cummings gets everywhere...

[@Liofa73]

Even in a pandemic...

[@OneCreditClassics]

Great Video, quite fittingly. A Great Sports Stream would be amazing. I think I've done Great Soccer before from that list and maybe Great Volleyball as well. Very subjective clearly!

[@menkomonty]

The words "Great" and "Golf" are two words that don't work when put together in my lexicon.