Classic Game Room HD - GOLF for Atari 2600 review

"Just because the graphics are better doesn't mean the game is better" CGRHD pars up a bogie with a birdie in this game of 9-hole retro video game golf action on the Atari 2600. Long before Tiger Woods 2K8 golf on the Xbox 360, or Golden Tee, we played Golf on the Atari 2600.

The Atari 2600 had lots of sports games like bowling, football, baseball, ice hockey, boxing and yes... golf.

You don't visit some of the most exotic golf courses in the country like Pinehurst, Pebble Beach, Oakmont, Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Winged Foot Golf Club, Oakland Hills, Olympia Fields or Bethpage State Park. There aren't celebrity golfers like Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino or Jim Furyk. You don't even play 18-holes of championship golf. You play 9 holes of Atari golf.

Be sure to watch the original Classic Game Room episodes. Classic Game Room was the original classic video game review show on the Internet in 1999-2000, now on DVD. The HD series is reviewing PS3, Genesis, NES, Atari and Xbox 360. Xbox Live Arcade XBLA.

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[LadyofTheSummer]

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

[greatbison]

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

[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.