- Original Platform: Java Mobile
- Original release: 2009
- Available to by: No
A golf game mixed with a 2D platformer. This golf game takes assets from the Mega Drive Sonic 1 and builds a golf game out of it, with three courses (Green Hill, Marble and Spring Yard), each with nine holes each.
Surprisingly, this game is a lot of fun. The levels have lots of platforms to navigate, jumps to make, bumpers to use to your advantage and even secret passages to skip parts of the levels, although these can only be broken through when you hit them at full power. The new assets merge with the original sprites really well, too.
While it initially seems like a silly idea, it just works really well. It’s like one of those games that shouldn’t work, but just does.
Where to get
- ROM Status: Available.
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Wow! Sonic Golf actually looks quite decent! (Horrible Java Jank aside)
It’s almost like a (very!) early prototype Cursed to Golf! I would’ve played the crap out of this if it were a proper DS game back in the day! 😀
Despite the Sonic 1 assets, they went with the Sonic 3 sprite. A smidge jarring, but it was probably easier to convert into golfing stances and animations.
Having no idea about the majority of these little games you’re showing us, I’m very thankful to read about them. I’m dumbfounded to see how much stuff Sega was outputting and outsourcing around this time.