I *loved* this game when I first played it back in the day. It was the spiritual successor to the Wing Commander series having been born from the mind of Chris Roberts, the latter’s creator. Freelancerįreelancer, released in 2003, was a not-quite-open-world space adventure game. The last version of Microsoft Golf was released in 2000.Īccess Software, the studio responsible for the development of the Microsoft Golf series and purchased by the software giant in 1999, did release later versions of its original “Links” series up until Links 2002 for Xbox in 2003.īut that original go around of the Torrey Pines South Course will live on my memory forever. I don’t remember how a version of it came to be installed on one of the first computers we owned back in the mid-90s, but it was there and would be counted amongst the first video games I ever played. Sans all the physical activity that comes from having a casual stroll around a park with a bag full of metal sticks in tow. Let’s start with the obvious, shall we? The classic point and click adventure that is hitting a small plastic ball into a gopher hole intertwined with a casual stroll around a park. But those are not the point.Īnyway, onwards, and in no particular order: Classic Video Games That Need Rebooting Microsoft Golf They may be considered by many to be spiritual or even actual successors. Some of them may have even been made by people that worked on these originals. With Microsoft getting ready to unleash a shiny new version of Flight Simulator upon the world, it is time we looked at a few more classic games that need a return to our screens.īefore you head to the comments section or, worse, my email, with your takes about “but that’s basically what ‘such-and-such’ is now! YOU IDIOT” then just let me be clear that I am perfectly aware other video games have been made in the last 20 or so years.
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