On The Green With Sim Golf - Part 1

Call me a hater, but I kind of hate how Ryan builds his course. It's mostly unaesthetic an ineffective.
But I can't play all games by myself :)

".. don't wash your balls until your two holes in.." - Patrick

This makes me want to play Rollercoaster Tycoon 2.

Drop some cranes on that motherfucker.

And...im going to pick this up on ebay. God, this looks fun as heck. heh. Also, Sid being awesome as always. :)

Jeff's Turbographix binge can only lead to the greatest things.

Wonder if Sid Meier's Dinosaurs! would have rail systems,better diplomacy,and more effective nukes...

God damn, Sid Meier is awesome

God damn now I want to play this game

Can't believe you guys got Sid Meier on the line. Now that's premium content.

I love that they got to chat with Sid Meier and that they talked to him about SimGolf rather than Civilization or XCOM. That kind of thing is why I love Giant Bomb.

Marshuuno!

What's this Fear Axis thing Ryan keeps talking about?

@Rodiard said:

What's this Fear Axis thing Ryan keeps talking about?

Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but I'll take the bait anyways. Firaxis is the developer of this game, XCOM, Civilization and the other Sid Meier games.

@DigTheDoug said:

@Rodiard said:

What's this Fear Axis thing Ryan keeps talking about?

Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but I'll take the bait anyways. Firaxis is the developer of this game, XCOM, Civilization and the other Sid Meier games.

I'm just poking fun at how he pronounces Firaxis.

It's all coming back. This game is amazing, but I'm pretty sure the copy I had was broken :/ I don't think it ever saved my games, and yet I still managed to play the shit out of it.

I used to just invite the best players over to my course and then edit the courses holes midshot so their balls landed in hazards every time.

Oh the fun times~

@fisk0 said:

Remember, it may be possible to get this released on GOG by voting for it in their Community Wishlist: http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/games/sid_meiers_sim_golf - as Sid Meier said in the Interview, EA owns the franchise, so there are no legal issues making it hard to re-release, they probably just need to be shown there's a demand for it (as with Populous and Syndicate, which they re-released on GOG last year).

Thanks for posting the vote link-- we should all vote. I never did get to this back in the day but would love the opportunity to play it (digitally) today.

I don't know about that Jailbait Pro guy...

Sid fucking Meier. Great interview, Ryan.

pokemon snap, then this. I'm lovin the retro looks

A surprise Sid Meier phone appearance. What a way to start the show.

that Sid Meier interview was brilliant, what a cool dude.

This is best course I've ever played.

Lmao, Replay.... "Fuck Ryan Davis"

@Vinny Take note at 1:42:10 @drewbert is a force to be reckoned with.

"Uhhh, I like rocks."

- Ryan Davis

"I saw a UFO yesterday"

Wow, I was not aware that Sim Golf was a prequel to X-Com.

@Diachron said:

@fisk0 said:

Remember, it may be possible to get this released on GOG by voting for it in their Community Wishlist: http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/games/sid_meiers_sim_golf - as Sid Meier said in the Interview, EA owns the franchise, so there are no legal issues making it hard to re-release, they probably just need to be shown there's a demand for it (as with Populous and Syndicate, which they re-released on GOG last year).

Thanks for posting the vote link-- we should all vote. I never did get to this back in the day but would love the opportunity to play it (digitally) today.

It's pretty amazing how the votes have doubled since the stream - at the start of it (yeah, I posted the link in the chat) the number of votes was in the 370-380 range, now it's 702, and shows up as the second most voted game of the week (second only to System Shock 2).

@allodude said:

Around what time is the Fuck Ryan Davis thing?

It was in the final 3 minutes of part 1.

"This building is will become available as you build additional holes"

Why does this game have horrific grammar?

Damn, I have no interest in golf or golf games, but I really want to play this game now.

Watching Ryan sending the soda vendor up to clean up the course at the upper part was frustrating and hilarious. lol

"Where were you in 2002?"

..."I was here. Doing this."

That profoundly bummed me out.

*Gasp* J.P Bigdome......of the New Hamphire Bigdomes? such a prestigious family!

Stonehenge is not in Wales.

It's amazing how 2D games age so well. Beautiful game.

@I_smell said:

"Where were you in 2002?"

..."I was here. Doing this."

That profoundly bummed me out.

Really? 10 years later and still doing what they love? I envy them.

Being live in the chat when they dropped the Sid Meier bomb was pretty awesome.

Has someone grabbed the sound files for this game yet?

NYAN CAT NEEDS TO GO!

@wewantsthering: That it was. I was literally getting stressed out over it. Poor soda man didn't have the tools needed to clean the damn dandelions!

@Error1355 said:

@wewantsthering: That it was. I was literally getting stressed out over it. Poor soda man didn't have the tools needed to clean the damn dandelions!

I don't think I've yelled at my computer monitor so much. lol I've never played the game before and I could do a better job than Ryan. Haha.

I LOVE WALKING ACROSS THIS SCENIC BRIDGE.

SID MEIER

Really enjoyed this.

Sid Meier is a god among game developers.

Still a great game. Sucks that I cant seem to find my copy anywhere :( Loved that Sid called in the "show".. Hope to see more of these classic PC-games played in the future.

I love how deep Ryan gets into this, you can tell he really loves this game :')

I remember playing this game quite a bit back in the day. It was good fun but not quite as deep as say Civ or Alpha Centauri, if I recall correctly.

Still, I'd pay $10-15 for a steam or gog version. $40-50 for SimGolf2 or CivGolf or XGOLF :)