Classic Game Room HD - GOLF for Atari 2600 review

[BlayzedBlue]

Great story about seeing Tiger at the U.S. Open, Marc! I enjoyed hearing that more than the game.

[darkstonecastle]

Dude, your a fool if it takes you that long to figure out how to swing the club. Fail. This was a great game for its time. Quit whinning.

[finmarc]

try this with 36 hits!!!

[uofm97]

I love the water part: "Get over it...get over it (bleep!)" lol

[jcking33]

this is also cool... but i prefer to play golf in reality...

[uriituw]

Compare this with Intellivision golf.

[juancarlos85506]

AND I THOUGHT PLAYSTATION 1 GAMES WERE BAD

[DecaPodge]

Golf on the Atari got Tiger Woods into playing golf? Can't have done, he's black, he wouldn't have had an atar- no I mustn't, I'm sorry.

[VelvetKevorkian]

I have a relative who's huge into golf and he tells a story about once he and his golf friends went to the Masters or something similar and Tiger Woods was walking by in a swarm of media and people trying to get an autograph, and he apparently went to shake Tiger's hand and Tiger kept on waking like he was a billion-dollar celebrity or something. So now he hates Tiger Woods because Tiger blew him off at the Masters, like they were best friends before.

It's not a very good story.

[jtomally9681]

I am sorry to say but I gave a thumbs down, not for the video itself but because of the game. Golf on Atari 2600 was a waste.

[dfortae]

As always, awesome review!  Very entertaining.

[MattTheSaiyan]

This looks even more annoying than "Palm Springs Open" on the CD-i (I kinda like that weird system (not as much as the lovely Atari 2600, obviously), but ugh, that golf game is painful!).

[GUKingOfHeart]

LOL Tarazed

[XxxGamer5641xxX]

"You have made : 2 Half-Life 2 references today!

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[BRGxRandomHero]

maybe tiger woods played golf for the atari 2600 with his one of his 2600 mistresses 

[highwaysonyfan87]

omg, 3:14. only sort of emotion what so ever that this guy will ever have

[TheXLink]

I think golf is relly boring to watch, but this is just awesome :D

[FleshMan7063]

I feel sorry for the kid who got this on their 2600 20 years ago for their birthday.

[robichj]

@FleshMan7063

That would have been me....only it was 30 years ago, not 20

[thenintendogamer]

Lol "hey tiger woods what do u think of golf for the 2600??" XD

[daro2096]

Has anyone ever managed to score 36 on this?

I once managed it on Miniature Golf.

[SteveTheVahn]

/golf clap

[brotherjames10]

you look like a big nosed person using you finger to hit a grape

[mikeusat]

I kicked serious ass in this game. You on the other hand completely suck, as does your review.

[Bittergamer1886]

@mikeusat I'd like to see you do a better review.

[VinceIP]

GOTY, all years.

[Jellogel]

I always thought "Volleyball" was a pretty decent 2600 sports game

[xXshamm3rsXx]

i still play this game fuckin awesome been playing it for 25 years

[georgelunna]

WTF

[Andylocksigma]

I had this game for my atari :),

My atari had a built in keyboard on the top of it. What model had a keyboard on it??

[tombert256]

atari 800 computer?

[Andylocksigma]

@tombert256 Nope, it defiantly looked like a 2600, had 2600 games, and it had a keyboard built onto the top of it!

[tombert256]

I see. Well, you might have had a Coleco Adam with the Atari 2600 expansion model, or you have a model I'm unaware of (more likely).

I don't suppose you have it and would be willing to sell would you :-).

[Andylocksigma]

@tombert256

It's not a Coleco Adam with the Atari 2600.

I think my perants friends have the system. I'll try and find out from them if I can get hold of it!

[emmittgrovenr]

wow this is totally rad its always played during the summer with my brothers they are absolutely brilliant at it. I was lucky enough to get it totally free for my ps3 from here - 115 games . com there are literally hundreds best thing about it is they are all free too oh i almost forgot 2:14 to 3:54 was superb

[segafan7]

Actually, for the time period, this game was pretty good. You've got to remember that just about every game for the Atari 2600 had blocky graphics like this. I wonder if the guys from the "Classic Game Room" were even around during the mid to late 70's when the Atari 2600 was THE thing to have??

[Luigi84289]

wow this looks like they put no thought into this what so ever. Has thrown out there for a quick buck written all over it.

[dustyatari]

this is one of those crappy first release games like video pinball, bowling and space war. although, first release games like warlords, video olympics, space invaders, missle command and asteroids were great.

[nutherefurlong]

I know that's supposed to be his hat, now, but I always thought he had a huge nose.

[Mrpantymelt]

crummy game

[cookie123456789012]

This game looks fun to me!

[TheSawtoothGrin143]

i thought the trees were umbrellas. haha

[Ishidasouken]

I'm born 88, so not really from that generation

but my first console was in fact a 2600

and I only had like 5 games

and this was one of them

I remember I could never figure out how to shoot

and I still cannot =D

[twibkidx]

lol the tiger story

[VampireGuitarist13]

This is a great review man!

I spat my beer across the room when i saw how you swing the golf club on the game.

Looks more like a bull whip than a golf club.

Im gona try the same swing as on the game next time i see a club!

[untreat]

This game is fucking amazing!

[Ch33s3k4k3]

Was Tiger Woods a Colecovision guy? xD

[SirShades]

I played this game as a kid, once with my mom and we had such screaming fights while playing this game. "No you're facing the wrong way"! When she heard about WiiSports, she did not to play that game. My mom thought it was going to be a repeat of 2600 Golf, screaming fights & all.

[jretin]

At first I thought the trees were umbrellas lol.

[dt332894]

OMG! the squirl is after me!!!!!!!!!

[yaywhewclips242]

An Atari 2600 ina dentist office. Dude, U were a lucky duck!! I HATED this game, we bought it originally in the 1980's for $8. It was a rip off!!

[notyoursavior78]

haha Mark yelling in this is great!

"YEA!!!"

[Bokyotheturnip]

uhh what did you expect?

[plurp7]

i dunno, the level set up with the castle styled green blocks sort of reminds me of some scenes in E.T. for the 2600.

those interested in a truly great golf game, pick up 'True Swing Golf' for Nintendo DS...its better than any tiger woods titles that i've tried.

[plurp7]

about 'True Swing Golf' - i wasnt comparing that to the game being reviewed, i havent tried that yet.

[puppetmaster983]

there are worse atari games.

[Lendorien]

You do crack me up with these reviews.

[JustyHakubi]

The game wasn't that bad, just because you suck at it doesn't make it bad... LOL.

[ZayanuZaroc]

He's a pro. a normal gamer would take years to complete a single hole!!

[bazfanv2]

im an avid atari collector, the only reason to have this game, is if you want to do a pokemon and collect them all.I wouldnt even attempt this god awful game.

[Admend]

Good review! But the game sucks! I had the 2600 and this game and in the 1982 the game won a free fly trought the window.

[WULFY1993]

i have this game and i feel that the atari could have dun better for this game it sucks! i have over 100 atari vcs games this is the most hated besides et and pacman ofcourse >:P

[RpKingman]

I actually have many fond memories of this game. As a kid in the early '80s, this sort of thing was incredible to me. I remember the akward frustration of the controls, but I enjoyed the fantasy of moving a guy on a screen with trees, and water, and grass. I'm being serious.

These sort of blocky graphics are part of my soul.

I just realized that the golfer is wearing a hat. As a kid I thought he was a strange fellow with a long nose

[argenatour]

i think it would have been easier to make a good gold game. this game floped hard. mind you i was laughing through the whole review

[d2girls]

Slim boots are sexy.

[DantePeeks]

this sucks extremly hard^^

[LadyofTheSummer]

lol and I loved how you got semi-off topic during the gameplay footage. Goof review ^_^

[notyoursavior78]

hahaha that was so funny at the beginning. I never played this one before, this game just looked miserable so I stayed away from it. It doesn't even look like the golfer is using a club, but a whip of some sort the way he spins it around. What a laugh. I like the clapping at the beginning :) And the fact that golf fans couldn't stomach this game.

Too bad you didn't yell at Tiger Woods about Golf for the 2600 that woulda been hilarious.

[greatbison]

I loved the original "Golf" for the NES. That actually played like golf. This on the other hand...

[zidaneff]

oddly enough, this makes me wanna play Hotshots Golf for PSX

[fattpieceofcrap]

wow this game is crappy. never even seen it before this review

[synthem]

that looks like a police officer covered in vanilla pudding beating a hamster with a giant dildo standing amid trees which look like umbrellas.

or is it just me?

[Pikachu132]

Eh, the game isn't THAT bad as long as you rid yourself of the notion that it's supposed to have anything to do with the actual sport. It plays more like some sort of psychotic billiard-like puzzle game. I'd much rather play this than Activision's Tennis, with it's ridiculously poor aiming mechnics and painfully long volley games.

[lackofselfcontrol]

I played this the other day on my Videopac (aka. Odyssey2) and, well, it's tedious.

[MutilatedMooCow]

Hilarious.

Are you going to do more NES reviews in the future?

[InecomCompany]

Classic Game Room HD is slated to do many more reviews from NES, Atari, Genesis, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Sega CD, etc...

[MutilatedMooCow]

Sweetness.

Keep on doing what you do best.

[siasko12]

@InecomCompany PC too?