 Every so often I say screw it and do a video on a game I know for a fact won't get much of an audience and I don't care. Ichi and Scratchy Miniature Golf Madness combines three of my favorite things, Golf Games, The Simpsons and the original Game Boy. I admire the Game Boy so much they squeezed so much out of this thing, without any additional peripherals or anything it produced incredible feats of gaming from the 16 player compatible Facebook 2000 to games that are still worth playing today as is like Kid Dracula and Link's Awakening. Ichi and Scratchy Miniature Golf Madness is, uh, not a landmark achievement in gaming but it's totally in my wheelhouse. I already did a video on another Simpsons Game Boy game years ago, Bart vs the Juggernauts and while that game may be extremely dated in a lot of ways, one thing I admire about it is that it does a nice job capturing the early Simpsons humor. Miniature Golf Madness similarly does a decent job getting the Ichi and Scratchy vibe down reasonably well. The premise here is to complete each mini golf hole while dealing with obstacles and dodging the incessant Ichi who comes after you with guns, knives and bombs and flamethrowers and machetes and tons of other stuff. The Ichi and Scratchy vibe here is represented well like I said and that's because the sprite work here is surprisingly pretty good. Scratchy's death animations are pretty funny and even on Game Boy they're still nice looking. If you can't already tell from the footage here this is a mini golf game disguised as an action platformer. That's kind of why I wanted to take a look at this one because it's such an odd combination that I don't think I've seen any place else and yet somehow it works, sort of, at least for a Game Boy game. You get nine lives of course to finish each hole. You stand either to the left or the right of the ball depending on which direction you want to hit it. You press up and then you hold down the B button which brings up a power meter and you let go of the button at the right time to either blast the ball or tap it lightly. Each hole is usually something like par 25 and you meander around these huge platforming levels avoiding obstacles and dodging Ichi while hitting the ball. You do pick up weapons so you can fend for yourself as well like knives or baseball bats, but you get limited ammo for each. Your default weapon is a golf club and that's this game's big flaw. The hit detection for hitting Ichi with this thing is freaking terrible. If you don't have any weapons you're better off just staying away from using this thing. So yeah, there's not much else to say about this one. There's nine holes and nine lives and it's pretty simple and straightforward. Mini-Trip Golf Madness doesn't have any kind of battery saver password system it's just a pick-up-and-play game that's very much a product of its time. It's not meant to be played for any long period of time or even an hour. It's very much in the spirit of the old original Game Boy where you play it for 10-15 minutes at a time and then put it down. That said Mini-Trip Golf Madness is actually a pretty cool idea for a game. It's kind of nuts to combine an action platformer with Mini-Golf. But if anyone can do it, it's Ichi and Scratchy.