Nick Faldo's Championship Golf | |
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Developer(s) | Arcon International Arc Developments (C64) Images Software (CD32) |
Publisher(s) | Grandslam Entertainment |
Producer(s) | Paul Chamberlain |
Designer(s) | Neil Paterson (C64) |
Programmer(s) | Neil Paterson (C64) Andrew Perkins (Amiga) Tony Mack (CD32) Richard Underhill (MS-DOS) |
Artist(s) | Gary Tonge (Amiga, C64, MS-DOS) |
Composer(s) | Andi McGinty (Amiga) |
Platform(s) | Amiga, CD32, Commodore 64, MS-DOS |
Release | 1992: C64 [1] 1993: Amiga [2] 1993: MS-DOS [3] 1994: CD32 [4] |
Genre(s) | Sports |
Nick Faldo's Championship Golf is a golf video game published by Grandslam Entertainment for the Commodore 64 in 1992. Versions for Amiga, Amiga CD32, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS followed. [1] [2] [3] [4] It centers around British golf champion Nick Faldo.
Publication | Score |
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Amiga Action | 88% [5] |
Amiga Computing | 87% [6] |
Amiga Format | 90% [7] |
Amiga Format | 90% [8] |
Amiga Joker | 77% [9] |
Amiga Magazine | 8/10 [10] |
Amiga Power | 88% [11] |
Power Unlimited | 63/100 [12] |
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