{"id":482,"date":"2008-07-21T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T17:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=482"},"modified":"2008-07-21T17:43:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T22:43:35","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-mecarobot-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/482\/retro-scan-of-the-week-mecarobot-golf","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Robots + Golf = Brilliant!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/mecarobot_golf_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/mecarobot_golf_small.jpg\" alt=\"Mecarobot Golf Ad - SNES - 1993\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Something is crooked in the state of Denmark.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Leave it to the Japanese to create a fantasy golf game with androids, robotic caddies, and floating islands in the sky.  As usual, they were quite forward-looking in 1993: they knew that some day, androids would be better at golf than humans.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve actually tried my hand at this game a few times, and it&#8217;s weird.  While the 3D engine is cool, it&#8217;s painfully slow; you can easily doze off while waiting for the screen to redraw.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[ Correction &#8211; 07\/21\/2008 ]<\/strong> I just played <em>Mecarobot Golf<\/em> again, and it seems that my memory was flawed.  The whacked-out SNES Golf game I recalled above was actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smokingtree.net\/SNES3.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Devil&#8217;s Course<\/em><\/a>.  Now <em>that<\/em> is a crazy golf game.  <em>Mecarobot Golf<\/em> still contains robots, but it features a smooth Mode 7 engine.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly, June 1993 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s your favorite video or computer golf game?<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something is crooked in the state of Denmark. Leave it to the Japanese to create a fantasy golf game with androids, robotic caddies, and floating islands in the sky. As usual, they were quite forward-looking in 1993: they knew that some day, androids would be better at golf than humans. I&#8217;ve actually tried my hand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-humor","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}