Actua Golf is a simulator developed by Gremlin Interactive, released 9 July 1996 on PlayStation, Sega Saturn and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Actua Golf is
Actua Golf is a simulator game developed by Gremlin Interactive and released in 1996. It is available on PlayStation, Sega Saturn and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Actua Golf is a golf simulation with full 3D terrain and characters. It comes with two courses to play at (country and tropical), customizable characters and multi-view shot tracking and action replays. Actua Golf uses similar game controls as older golf titles did. With a swing meter, where you have to time correctly to hit the ball right.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Actua Golf holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 100 MB RAM. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Actua Golf launched on 9 July 1996, within three weeks of Super Mario 64, Nights Into Dreams..., Triple Play 97 and Star Gladiator Episode I: Final Crusade. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Super Mario 64, Nights Into Dreams..., Triple Play 97, Star Gladiator Episode I: Final Crusade.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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Quick answers
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