''Sensible Golf'' is a 2D golf game released by

Sensible Software Sensible Software was a British software company founded by Jon Hare and Chris Yates which was active from March 1986 to June 1999. It released seven number-one hit games and won numerous industry awards. The company used exaggeratedly small sp ...

in 1995 for the

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. It uses the same pin-like characters as ''

Sensible Soccer ''Sensible Soccer'', often called ''Sensi'', is an association football video game series which was popular in the early 1990s and which still retains a following. It was developed by Sensible Software and first released for Amiga and Atari ST ...

'' and ''

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''. The theme tune was written by the lead game designer,

Jon Hare Jon "Jops" Hare (born 20 January 1966) is an English computer game designer, video game artist, musician and one of many founder members of the early UK games industry as co-founder and director, along with Chris Yates, of Sensible Software, on ...

, and a promotional video was directed by

Carl Smyth Cathal Joseph "Carl" Smyth (born 14 January 1959), also known as Chas Smash, is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the secondary vocalist, trumpet player and dancer for the English band Madness from their inception ...

from the group Madness and filmed in

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, London. The game received lackluster reviews and sold poorly. A

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version was planned but never released.

Reception

''Sensible Golf'' was awarded the company's lowest ever score by

Amiga Power ''Amiga Power'' (''AP'') was a monthly magazine about Amiga video games. It was published in the United Kingdom by Future Publishing and ran for 65 issues, from May 1991 to September 1996. History The first issue of ''Amiga Power'' was publi ...

of 66% and marked a sharp decline in the fortune of Sensible Software. It was to be their last commercial Amiga release, with only ''

Sensible Train Spotting ''Sensible Train Spotting'' is a video game by Sensible Software for the Amiga computer. It is Sensible Software's last Amiga game and was available only on an ''Amiga Power'' cover disk from issue 53, dated September 1995. Because of this, it is ...

'' to follow. In an interview carried out almost twenty years after its release, Jon Hare said of the game: "''Sensible Golf'' is a disappointment to me; I'm not happy with it ... We were greedy. We diluted our quality. To be honest, I was focusing on ''Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll'' at that time, and it was such a massive game. Between that and ''Sensible World of Soccer'', I didn't have time for ''Sensible Golf'', and it just slid".

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* 1995 video games Amiga games Cancelled Sega Genesis games DOS games Golf video games Multiplayer and single-player video games Sensible Software games Video games developed in the United Kingdom Video games scored by Allister Brimble Video games scored by Jon Hare Video games scored by Richard Joseph Virgin Interactive games {{golf-videogame-stub