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''Miniature Golf'' is a
There are nine playable holes in Miniature Golf. The goal of each hole is to get the ball into the cup. Each time the player hits the ball, a stroke is added to their score. The number of strokes the player may take are unlimited. A par represents the number to strokes the player ideally must take to complete the hole.
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...
video game developed for the Atari VCS (later called the Atari 2600
The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridg ...
) by Tom Reuterdahl and published by Atari, Inc. in 1979.
Gameplay
There are nine playable holes in Miniature Golf. The goal of each hole is to get the ball into the cup. Each time the player hits the ball, a stroke is added to their score. The number of strokes the player may take are unlimited. A par represents the number to strokes the player ideally must take to complete the hole.
Release
''Miniature Golf'' was released in 1979 and published by Atari, Inc. For the Sears Tele-Games release of the game published bySears
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, the game was re-titled ''Arcade Golf''.
The cover art of ''Miniature Golf'' was done by Cliff Spohn. Spohn started working as a freelancer for Atari in 1977 through Palo Alto-based agency called Steven Jacobs Design. Spohn recalled that he went out to a local miniature golf course and took photographs of everything around him to get images for the cover.
Reception
From retrospective reviews, Brett Weiss in his book ''Classic Home Video Games 1972-1984'' wrote that the game had unimaginatively laid out courses and that it had "some of the worst graphics in the history of video games", specifically noting the simple squares for objects and holes.See also
*List of Atari 2600 games
The Atari 2600 is a home video game console released in September 1977. Sears licensed the console and many games from Atari, Inc., selling them under different names. Three cartridges were Sears exclusives.
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