Links: The Challenge of Golf

Overview

Links redefined what golf on the PC should look and play like; it migrated golf from a sports game to a simulation. Good use of VGA's 256 colors made for a realistic course with trees, water, sandtraps, and the fairway. The addition of ball physics, mulligans, changing the lie of the ball, real digitized environmental sounds (even through the PC speaker), and the ability to view a replay (even from multiple angles) gave PC golf games a new echelon of quality to match.

Developed by

Access Software, Papyrus Design Group

Published by

Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Access Software

Facts

Game modes

Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Player perspectives

Third person

Series

Links

Release dates

• DOS: 1990
• Amiga: 1992
• Sega CD: Sep 1994