LGR - World Class Leader Board - DOS PC Game Review
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2014
- The ultimate game in Access Software's Leaderboard series, WCLB is one classy 80's golf sim. EGA graphics, RealSound, super-sensitive controls, yeah!
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To this day, I still say, "Looks like he hit the tree, Jim." in reference to something going stupidly wrong. Of course, no one around me has any clue what I'm talking about. Thanks for the memories!
You need new friends.
Can’t be too happy about that one.
Me too
Thank god I'm not the only one 😂
From my vantage point, it looks safely in the fairway.
I still quote World Class Leaderboard while playing other golf games, especially the arcade cabinets like Tee’d Off (both the Gottlieb pinball and the Tecmo video game of the same name), Golden Tee ‘98, Mario’s Golf and NEO Turf Masters. I have to explain my outbursts to other people too often but occasionally someone will remember the game and sounds.
I remember this game. "Looks like he hit the tree, Jim." Always thought that line was hilarious.
TheDarxide23 heard that all the time during childhood :)
TheDarxide23 yup me too...had it on Sega md around 1991_92
The "looks like he hit the tree Jim" announcer guy is Kevin Jones, brother of Chris Jones (AKA Tex Murphy). Kevin was also Mac Malden in the Tex Murphy games.
Passed away a few years ago. RIP.
And before anyone else says it, YES I know "double birdie" is technically an Eagle, but whatever, I looked it up when I made the review and saw this: www.thefreedictionary.com/double+birdie I am a self-professed non-sports guy so I couldn't be bothered to look further, get over it :P
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What I do not like is brocolli but that doesn't matter.
As someone who loves to play the game of golf you have taught me a great new way of confusing people out at the course. Thanks LGR. Also I love your sports game reviews since when I was a kid all I had was my dads "business" computer which consisted of a bunch of sports games, but I was just happy to play anything.
I am horribly, horribly offended. You have ruined the sport forever.
lgr and you heard of a 1995 game called witchaven developed from capstone
Isn't "Double birdie" two below par, and "Eagle" or "Albatross" three below?
The first time I ever fired up this game on my old 386 back in the day, the sound was so amazing to me. The bird noises gave me the most vivid feeling of "atmosphere" or "ambiance" I ever felt coming from a game at that time. I never could have imagined it would be a golf game of all things to give me that experience!
My grandpa had this golf game on his computer back in 1990. I remember playing this and Prince of Persia all the time when I went to visit.
Hey. I have just stumbled upon this and have the exact same experience. Prince of Persia, Leisure suit Larry and Links Golf with my Grandad on his PC, my first exposure to computers and gaming in 93. Great memories. Hope this finds you well ❤
Just awesome how the ball bounces off the leafs in the trees !
RealPhysics™
+Lazy Game Reviews Rendered in 6-bit comprehension.
Every time I buy an old computer this game is ALWAYS part of the bundle. Hell I can see an Atari ST copy in the corner of my eye as I type this!!!
But the Leader Board games always felt like a "Dad" game to me, the game your Dad would buy during his short lived interest in computers, before goign back to their normal hobby of sleeping.
That's wierd my dad just played Gran Turismo as his "Dad" game.
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Really? That would have my Dad's head explode that, je just stuck to golf and shanghai if you've ever played that. We should compile a top 10 "Dad" games. :D
Lol well he played Mortal Kombat too xD
*****
Yes, one of those games can be Donkey Kong 64 for my dad.
My dad was a weird guy.
+Larry Bundy Jr
For my dad it was billiards and boxing. :p
"Looks like he hit the tree!"
Words that still haunt my nightmares...
I played this a lot on C64. It helped me a lot knowing the maximum ranges on the clubs you are hitting the ball with, and selecting the right one matching closest to the distance. Of course if you had to land the ball on an island halfway trough or in a bend on a course, you had to use the "good ol' Eyeball MK.II" to judge the distance for the perfect shot.
So many hours, all well spent with this game in the early 90's. More than I can say about some more modern games of today which seem to lose their magic after a few hours of monotony. Of course, I am not sure how much can be attributed to the fact there weren't many 3D games with beautiful graphics out there when Leaderboard Golf was released, but it sure did a great job giving you the feeling of "being there". In Leaderboard Golf, you didn't just "play golf". You were on an adventure. And if you had friends with you, even better. They just don't make games like these anymore.
This was an incredibly entertaining review! Super well done, really funny, and taught me of the origins of my favorite game genre: golf sims
Man what a nostalgia rush! This game was one of the first that we had on our family computer.
Awesome video... you gave me a real blast to the past. I played it so much on my 286 pc... I guess I must have the floppy still lying around somewhere...
Thx LGR :)
You used that game when you shown the comparison between Ibm PC and 386 PC in one of your first videos. It still blows my mind how good it looks and sounds. That smooth animation, that clear sound... magnificent XD
Indeed I did! The game is certainly useful as a benchmark for machines from that era, really cool tech :)
Wait... that was coming out of PC speaker? Damn...
Totally was! Hearing this on a real PC speaker is quite bizarre.
Lazy Game Reviews Even the voices?
darabbit333 Yup, everything you hear in-game comes from the internal PC speaker.
Yeah, PC speaker provided digital audio was possible, but very hardware intensive. There was even a driver for Windows 3.1 that allowed you to play digital sounds through the PC Speaker. However, Windows itself would freeze until the sound finished playing, since it pretty much required the full CPU's attention.
I remember an old music tracker software for the PC that had the option to play digitized sounds through the PC speaker. 4 or 8 channels in real time. Must have been Fasttracker.
...Holy crap. I never expected to find a review of this game. It's part of my childhood! Played it in all its monochrome Hercules glory on a screen that only displayed orange and brown.
Gold label! So that is how you make a 5,25 inch floppy look cool. I better try that on my next date.
Those voice clips have been in my head for about 30 years. As an adult, it took me a while to figure out what this game was called because it didn't have "golf" in the title. When I finally saw a video of it, I remembered right away.
I love when you do sport game reviews, I wish you did more :) they are so great
0:01 dat song. Nostalgia. Also, I'm really interested in that Far Side program!
"Walk in just off camera" haha haha I got the (comment) reference!! I really enjoy these retro game reviews mate, keep up the awesome work!!
Oh, man. I was born in 1991, and until a couple years ago, my grandparents had an old IBM PS/1 computer from probably 1989 that I still played old games on. And one game that I remembered from childhood but was no longer there in recent years was a golf game, which I'm pretty sure was this one. I didn't read/understand English back then, so the title didn't ring a bell, but the title screen seriously jogged my memory. I remember trying to puzzle out what most of the audio was, but I definitely remember the "looks like he hit the tree, Jim" one. It frustrated my father and brother a lot.
remember this game fondly from when I was much smaller, even though I didn't know anything about golf beyond "hit ball to make it go in hole". PGA486 was the next great golf game which taught the importance of using the right club to whack the ball
Ohh man this brings me back, I had remembered this game but was so young I didnt recall what it was called.
Greg Norman's Shark Attack! was my golf game back on the AT. This one looks to be along the same lines. Great review.
I played the Leaderboard Golf games on Commodore 64 and they're still my favorite golf games. Prior to watching this video I only knew that Pinball Fantasies used PC speaker for digital samples. Access Software also had a bowling game (10th Frame) which I never really learned to play.
i'm so envious of your game collection LGR :)
Oh man, I first played it in CGA before getting an EGA machine and dang it, it was so cool! Just like you said, I totally fantasized about what's behind those trees and whatnot ("Colorado" also had me doing that, maybe you could review that game some time?). Had some pretty good hot-seat multiplayer fun with my friends playing this. I normally won because I could play all day whereas they would only see a computer when at my place ... but I like to think I was just that good :D Thanks for the nostalgia, Clint!
I love it when you walk-in off camera. This should be your next video subject. Ohhhhh Yeah!
THANKS! I forgot this game, but when the birds sound started... WOW!!! that was the game that puts digital sounds through the PC speaker. My first game with real sounds at PC :)
I had an old IBM Personal Computer 2 model 25 and this was one of the few if not the only game on it. I didn't know about the EGA graphics, and literally always wondered why the colors were so strange, I mean, why did the clouds have to be neon green? Well just today playing it in dosbox online I tried the other graphics settings to finally discover I could have sort of normal looking colors in this game! Fantastic. Like others have said, so many memories with this game and glad to see that "Looks like he hit the tree, Jim" is seared into so many other people's minds.
MFW when I saw Lost Vikings box behind you... review that mate please - I loved that game and more people need to know about it!
I still play its ultimate successor Links 2003 to this day.
man, you are nostalgia in a can, I had totally forgotten about this game even thought I felt the exact same way about it. I used to play this one along with F15 flight simulator. Both without the manual :P
Such great memories... thanks!
What better way to start the day than a bit of smooth jazz and some golf.
Thanks for remembering the C64 original. Computers and video games were so different in the 1980s. People tend to forget things like copy protection dongles, the DRM of their day. Some ideas would be better forgotten.
Ha! OMG I totally remember playing this game as a kid. I didn't even realize what it was when I loaded up the review, but the mention of RealSound brought the memories flooding back. I only had a PC speaker myself, and kids these days don't realize how mind-blowing it was to go from bleeps and bloops to actual recorded audio.
The sound is impressive, but the cricket sounds would drive me crazy in five minutes. I live in the 2nd floor and those fuckers can still fly right into my window and piss me off
Each individual sound effect type can be disabled :)
Lazy Game Reviews Nowthats a true use of technology. Would hate to play this one on mute just for the crickets
I remember also being blown away with the sound coming from the PC speaker at a friends house. Usually a computer with "sound" would have big honking Labtec or Creative speakers to the left and right of the monitor. But when I heard those birds, I was like "Wha? Where the heck is the sound coming from?!?"
It's very impressive quality, but the tech accomplishment has to go to the TRS-80 Tips and Tricks book which got sound out of the cassette drive.
nice Delorean DMC12 shirt, I want it, also nice review, cheers!
This was one of my first PC games. Still play it now for fun!
My childhood. The Game is still fun today.
Weirdly enough, I don't recall the "hit the tree, Jim" phrase, the one that always stuck with me was the "Ooh, can't be too happy about that one!"
Your stuff always manages to tickle my nostalgia receptors; I haven't thought about this game in a dog's age. Hell, 2 or 3 dog's ages even.
BALL IS IN
PARKING LOT
WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY AGAIN?
You have selected no.
I suggest Feather Touch.
You have selected POWER DRIVE.
Zabeus Now press 787 to swing.
Came searching to see if you'd done a Lynx Golf video. This has scratched the itch :)
One of the first games I ever played was 'Mean 18 Golf' by Accolade on a monochrome 86k Olivetti IBM. That game was hard as balls, but I loved the Gopher animation on the title screen.
Love the use of background music from The Sims Hot Date :)
I've never played this game, but this video made me extremely nostalgic.
“No doubt about it, Jim. That’s deep in the sand trap."
That boxed Get Medieval game that I sent you looks good on the shelf! Chuck Rock 2 also :-)
Yeah, I remember one of the Links games (couldn't tell you which one since it was just called like "Microsoft Golf" on the disc/case) coming with the first computer our family had, and while it definitely feels like an evolution of the Leader Board games, it also makes a lot more sense and does a better job of helping you understand how to play it.
I had Links386 Pro, great game! .. in fact I still have it! on my Mac using DOSBOX.
World Class Review!
I thought I'd played this one at first but it was actually Links. (on DOS and Amiga)
Wow the same game i´ve played back in time on my Dad´s 286 PC :). Very nice collectors item :).
This was one of the very first Dos games I ever played. The PC it was on was very dated for 1996, but I quickly grew to love it. The fact that it only had PC speaker helped make this game stand out more. =)
I personally prefer the Commodore 64 version, because: Nostalgia. After all, I grew up on the C64 (not that there's anything wrong with the MS-DOS version of WCLB).
This is the one of the first game I ever played too. Just amazing.
Wow, does this bring back memories of playing this at my cousins' house way back in the early to mid 90's. (I didn't even know the title of this game until now.)
Nice one. Everything about that game for its time is really impressive...
Remember this little beauty so well
Awesome 😎
use the club distance - it makes life easier. On amateur setting its pretty easy
min[Yards] maxi [Yards]
1W 156 271
3W 135 245
5W 128 234
1I 110 220
2I 100 210
3I 88 202
4I 70 189
5I 67 181
6I 55 169
7I 50 153
8I 36 138
9I 26 117
PW - Pitching Wedge 11 83
Putter 1 Inch 64 Feet
Forget the games, I NEED your entire shirts collection!! :)
Oh wow! I remember I've played this on DOS! And this is a DOS game that I've actually completely forgot about for years (or decades). I mean I've played a lot of DOS games and now days I usually I bump into old games from time to time, but that one was off my radar for a long time, mostly because golf isn't my thing really. Even though it wasn't something spectacular, I liked the game mechanics, something so many golf games couldn't convince me. To this date, I still think it is more addictive and far better than any other golf game I've ever played.
From my vantage point, it looks safely on the fairway.
Was a very solid Spectrum game back then. I have great memories of it =)
Reminds me of the first PC game I ever played: Mean 18 for MSDOS
Good stuff :)
LGR can make any game sound interesting and cool. Even this one.
We used to have this for PC. I think someone at my Dad's office pirated a copy for him. Lots of fun to play.
Wow that RealSound is incredible! Never knew that was possible from the PC speaker. I Wiki'd it and see that RealSound was sadly only used in a handful of games. Would love to see you cover some of the others to hear/learn more about it. Like Mean Streets for example, which I see is a Tex Murphy game (I've never played a Tex Murphy but I think I've read they're good) and doesn't seem to have much YT coverage. Or even better, an Oddware episode dedicated to RealSound?
Anymore info on the RealSound tech, seems awesome it can do that without a soundcard.
Haha! I have this for the Genesis. I had no idea it came out in any version on the PC.
Absolute cult classic. First game I ever played besides Sokoban
I had this on the C64.
It came with an additional pull out with a list of the clubs and what distance they should be used for. Did it not come with the PC edition or did you just not have it. Either way................fond memories indeed
Oh man, watching those trees load in is nostalgic. Don't worry, Clint, I always sucked at this game, too!
The voices come from PC speaker? That would have blew my mind when I was a kid too lol. I still remember the first time when my dad installed the sound card. It was OPL3-SA sound blaster.
Something tells me you'd love True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club for the SNES, I'm not a big sports fan at all, even less so with golf. But I spent countless hours playing this game as a kid and like you I dont know why I kept coming back to it, something just was there.
This reminds me of the woods near flagstaff arizona.
I remember playing this on a pc xt as a kid in green monochrome, ah memories
Nice review, good game! What type of PC did you use when playing this game?
Thanks!
Man, this game was on every acorn archimedes at my school back in the 90's... fuck, just shown my age now, oh well.
You can get past the security key for the commodore version if you have the cassette drive plugged in and you hit play while it loads. No tape necessary!
Shot distance is related to the club you choose, the power is relative to that club. Awesome Golf on the Atari Lynx is well worth checking
Them sweet ass EGA graphics.
Those are actually nice graphics for EGA, and loving the pseudo 3d effects.
Well my first golf game was Neo Turf Masters, not the most professional game, but it's a damn good game!
HAHA! A version of this was also one the first sport games I ever owned back in 1987 or 88. Only that it was for my then Atari ST.
Leader Board by Access Software, ST, 1986, Trusteft's Retro Weekend
I STILL play the game. Rarely, but I do.
Nice, I used to play this on C64. We didn't have that weird dongle thing either... we had other ways to circumvent the copy protection. What is that dongle anyway? Looked like just a resistor connecting two pins on the tape deck connector.
That's pretty much exactly what it is, yeah. It sent some kind of data or signal through the datasette edge connector while the floppy drive loaded the game.
Lazy Game Reviews I believe that pressing the Play button on an actual Datasette would fool the game into believing that you had the dongle.
Hadnt seen this in a long time
woa, you generally upload videos in the middle of the night. (or at least my timezone's middle of the night)
This game looks vaguely familiar to me...
Elegant name, too; your review even moreso.
Watched this while making an Augusta-style pimiento cheese sandwich. Your comments about the immersiveness of the game resonate with me greatly.
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"From my vantage point, it looks safely in the fairway"
I remember this game first golf I played
Where did you get that Delorean shirt?
Are all of the sounds, including the voice, coming from the PC speaker?
damn man this vid took me straight back to my childhood where I also spent countless frustrated hours playing this game hahaha thanks for the nostalgia trip PS can't WAIT for the next lgr thrifts :-)
Glad to hear it :) And be sure to come back next Monday then!
Lazy Game Reviews oooh u know I will :-D your channel is def in my top 3 favorites keep doing ur thing PS will u do a quake series review at some point and maybe unreal? thanks for the content!!
i love your channel
Thanks :)
this was my childhood period.
Ten people apparently got too offended about the "double birdie" thing.....meh. I think this video is awesome. Keep up the awesomeness, LGR!