Sensible Golf (1994) | Amiga | Let’s Play | First ever go (it shows!)

Having played a lot of SWOS in the previous week, I thought that I’d give Sensible Golf a play, seeing as I’d never actually played it before in my life.

Sensible Golf was released in 1994 on the Commodore Amiga (it was also ported to Windows) by Sensible Software. Following on from their wildly successful games such as Sensible Soccer and Cannon Fodder, Sensible Golf did not do as well – not getting the critical acclaim or the sales that those aforementioned games did. Amiga Power gave it a paltry 66%.

This golf game isn’t as intuitive as Sensible Soccer (which as soon as you play, you basically know what to do), which is probably due to golf being a trickier game to simulate on a computer. When compared to other golf games around at the time of release like PGA Tour Golf, it just wasn’t as good. Shame, as it looked great in the magazines, and if the mechanics of the game worked better, then it could have been a real belter of a sports sim.