Golfshrine Online

I spent a lot of store credit at the local, for all this stuff.

What, precisely, do semi-luxury automobiles have to do with computer golf games?

Happy birthday to me!

What a wonderful sunny day it was, and on a completely unrelated note, I bought things again.

A second trip to Tapper's nets me a lightened load and a small haul in return, on a particularly foggy day.

Some long forgotten things that we already had, and some new things representing even older things.

Looking to expand your golf media literacy?

Better than the legend itself?!

Putting positive waves into the air.

Tumultuous times dictate that things be covered up with sticky notes.

A kind contribution leads to striking one of the weirder items from the Wishlist - and also a look into a world too rich for me.

Golfshrine's second-largest individual item to date, if it really counts as an individual item!

Two boxes of goodies: games for Palm PDAs, some PS1 demo discs, plastic Yoshis, and handfuls of other Weird Things!

For a Color TV Game Console that never left Japan, and from a video game video producer who is much, much bigger than I am; I'm just happy to have this thing in my hands now!

One more Links game!

The most well-respected series in computer golf history decides to try something different.

It's been stuck to the front lip of one of Golfshrine's many shelves for months - but does it still play?

The pocket version of NTM has a lot of familiar names on its scoreboard.

How, precisely, can I turn one Links title into a whole update?

Golfshrine starts the year off right(?)

Friend of Golfshrine, Herzog Zwei, found me something nice while out thrifting, so that more or less gets an update to itself, with a video clip even.

A few new golfers, snapshots of custom courses, and even our dear poor Schmoe have been added to the Gallery!

It's been waiting in the wings for me to actually do it.

The swing of a golf club is a remarkably complicated thing in real life - and simulations may or may not make certain assumptions about it, in the name of video game appeal.

In which I rant a bit about the nature of digital ownership, and what does and does not count as part of Golfshrine... and whether that even actually matters.

I've been to Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2024, and spent an entire $40 on a pile of fascinating games that I haven't even tried to play yet, but still have things to say about why they're interesting.

A small acquisitions update today to go along with a few other minor changes to the website - the navbar buttons have been moved to their own "Friends of Golfshrine" page (along with several new ones), and I increased the font size and line height a little

Not a fully fledged site update as such, but I did finally get an RSS feed working on here!

Quite a lot to put up today, as the imminent closure of Cohost is prompting me to transplant several posts I'd written into new articles (though nothing terribly elaborate) in addition to today's acquisitions.

Transplanted from my Cohost: A running list of computerized platforms on which I have found not one single golf game.

Transplanted from my Cohost: Access Software were, at one point, selling additional golfers for Links as well as courses.

Some donations sent to the Shrine have finally arrived (and I've finally got off my duff and wrote about them) - one of them is haunted!

I really need to slow down on this stuff, but I do at least have another extra weird side-story of gaming history today, among other things: the GameTrak motion-controller system!

Have I mastered the Masters?

The start of some under-the-hood alterations to make Golfshrine a nicer experience - the Updates page is now an index, and each individual dated Update is now its own page.

Today's acquisitions are few, but demand I go into some detail - an unconventional golf legend is involved, I'll just say.

Patience is a virtue.

I can keep calling these things weird if I can think of a good excuse for them to be.

I had my birthday this month; if I wasn't in my late 30s before, I am now.

A new addition to Golfshrine from Buick; I have now written the word "Buick" more times in one project than any non-car-driving type ever ought to.

Golfshrine gets redesigned again?!

Alright, alright, I own the Eugene Levy game now.

A trio of historical acquisitions from wonderful reader nebula, for a trio of the oldest video game consoles yet represented in the Golfshrine library.

A glut of Acquisitions updates that I've been sitting on for too long!

PDA Tour Golf?

More Acquisitions: a talking Game Gear game, a "3D" golf game that does not need to render, and...Frisbee?

An Acquisition so strange it deserves a new Article - it's Go Go Golf!

PGA Tour '96, for the third time?

A new Acquisitions page for longer-form news, an articles section to keep the nav bar clean, and the most important addition of all: link buttons!

With help from another kind Netizen, the Enshrined list is now alphabetized, and I corrected a bunch of embarassing typos on the other pages.