True Golf Classics: Wicked 18

True Golf Classics: Wicked 18
True Golf Classics: Wicked 18
	North American SNES box art
Developer	T&E Soft
Publishers	NA: Bullet-Proof Software; JP: T&E Soft; JP: Sega (Mega Drive);
Programmers	Kentaro Nishiwaki; Shinsuke Miyamoto
Series	True Golf Classics
Platforms	Super NES, NEC PC9801, 3DO, Sega Mega Drive
Release	1993; Mega Drive JP: January 28, 1994;
Genre	Sports (golf)
Modes	Single-player, multiplayer

True Golf Classics: Wicked 18^[a] is a golf 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.

Gameplay

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."^[2]

Notes

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

References

^ "Software List (Sega Release)". Sega Hard Encyclopedia (in Japanese). Sega Corporation. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
^ "Finals". Next Generation. No. 13. Imagine Media. January 1996. p. 156.

External links

Devil's Course at Uvlist
True Golf Classics: Wicked 18 at MobyGames

[2] Known in Japan as New 3D Golf Simulation: Devil's Course (Japanese: New 3D Golf Simulation: デビルズコース)

[Sega_titles_-_Sega_JP-1] "Software List (Sega Release)". Sega Hard Encyclopedia (in Japanese). Sega Corporation. Retrieved May 15, 2023.

[NG-3] "Finals". Next Generation. No. 13. Imagine Media. January 1996. p. 156.

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