"I do all sorts of things," laughed Adam Kramer, who parlayed his skill at Golden Tee into a job with its maker, Chicago-based Incredible Technologies, eight years ago.
For finesse approaches and putts, I'd balance on the balls of my feet, spread my hands and delicately roll the ball back and forth with both thumbs. The stick you use to swing is also the stick you're using to aim or navigate a menu, so there's no special reverence for approaching this or that control to take a shot.īut in Golden Tee, for each of the past 27 years, if you touch that ball, you better mean business with it, just like real golf.įor drives and long shots, or anything from the rough, I'd grip the left side of the cabinet, stand like a miler getting ready for the starting gun, and lick my palm, ready to ram it over the trackball with all the force I could summon. Golf video games have grown up and moved on from the arcade to home consoles and now to mobile devices, and in them all a virtual player picks a club, considers the wind and the lie and lines up a shot.
My favorite part of Golden Tee, a video game series almost nearly 30 years old and still going strong is how, just like real golf, one must step forward, physically, and address the ball.
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