Fifty Days of UFO 50: Day 35
This has come up a couple of times now, but I'm on record as claiming that " UFO 50 is haunted by the spirit of golf games." Let's dig into what that means. Why does it feel like "video golf" is some sort of mechanically animating force across multiple titles? Did Derek Yu stumble across a Neo Turf Masters cabinet at a very influential time in his life? Does he hear " ON THE GREEN! " in a high-pitched digitized voice as he drifts off to sleep at night? [You have this strange obsession with Neo Turf Masters despite never having played it. In fact, you haven't really tried to get into any golf game other than Ribbit King since getting your ass kicked in Mario Golf on the N64 by the coffee shop stoner girls you used to work with... Make of that what you will!] Now that I've at least come to grips with all fifty games, what better way to go hunting in the proverbial rough than to interrogate their designs one-by-one in search of go...