True Golf Classics: Wicked 18

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True Golf Classics: Wicked 18
True Golf - Wicked 18 Coverart.png
North American Super NES cover art
Developer(s) T&E Soft
Publisher(s)
Programmer(s) Kentaro Nishiwaki
Shinsuke Miyamoto
SeriesTrue Golf Classics
Platform(s) Super NES
NEC PC9801
3DO
Sega Mega Drive
ReleaseSuper NES:
  • NA: October 1993 [1]
  • JP: March 5, 1993
3DO:
Sega Mega Drive:
  • JP: January 28, 1994 [3]
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

True Golf Classics: Wicked 18 [lower-alpha 1] is a golfing video game originally released by T&E Soft in 1993 for the Super Famicom in Japan and by Bullet-Proof Software for the Super NES in North America. A version was later released for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer and the Mega Drive. The game takes place on a very difficult otherworldly golf course. It is part of the True Golf Classics series, but unlike other games such as Pebble Beach and Waialae Country Club , which portray actual golf courses, Wicked 18 portrays an entirely fictitious golf course.

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Gameplay

The game takes place on a difficult, fictitious golf course. Wicked18SampleHole.jpg
The game takes place on a difficult, fictitious golf course.

The object is to guide the golf ball through nearly impossible obstacles (lava, statues, extremely steep hills and mountains, omnipresent water hazards, huge sand traps, floating chunks of earth, gorges, cement) as the player tries to score as low as possible in order to win the day. Using the caddie, it is possible to scan the situation before hitting the ball with an analyzer. The bunkers are extremely treacherous, there is lava as well as water hazards, and 'out of bounds' can be in the middle of the hole. The "out of bounds" area could either be a platform game-style pit, an extended area of sand, or simply an unplayable rift. The game offers stroke play, match play, or tournament play.

There are also four caddies that help them. Each of them has their own personality and opinions about certain areas of each hole.

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the Saturn version of the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "In the end, if you're looking for a fresh approach to video golf this may be your only alternative, and it's a pretty good one." [4]

Reviews

Notes

  1. ↑ Known in Japan as New 3D Golf Simulation: Devil's Course (Japanese: New 3D Golf Simulation: デビルズコース)

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  2. ↑ "Release information (3DO)". GameFAQs . Retrieved 2009-03-03.
  3. ↑ "Release information (Sega Mega Drive)". GameFAQs . Retrieved 2013-01-14.
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