Updates & Acquisitions

August 9, 2025

It has been entirely too long. As ever, my income has not been especially supportive of this absurd hobby - even as cheap as some of these things are, every penny counts - but when I wound up with An Awful Lot of Store Credit at the local retro game dealer, I had to burn it off somehow. And that "somehow," of course, is golf games, and the interest of filling out a sub-collection.

However, the nature of these pickups does come with a complication. You see, there is an active boycott surrounding a company that, by unfortunate coincidence, would otherwise end up being the centerpiece of this update. I am the kind of person who sticks by my principles - one of them being not to abet an ongoing genocide - but I do also have an update to write. So I'm going to just need to, um, avoid glorifying their brand in every way possible. This starts with the fact that said company has received Zero Dollars from my wallet for any of the objects you're about to see. All of them are pre-owned and obsolete. I am not a subscriber to any of their services, and if you happen to be, I hereby suggest that you Cut It Out. Obviously I can't give you orders; as the proprietor of a website about digital sports that simultaneously wishes for the abolition of such sports, I understand that I walk a narrow tightrope as it is. But for the sake of those innocent people having their homes repeatedly blown up with help from technology consciously provided by the largest software company in the world, if all I can do is persona-non-grata said company from a website that should be entertaining, well, I'll do that. ...Right. Current events notwithstanding, here is The Haul.

Again: no funds reached corporate hands for these items. ...Well, except maybe Goodwill's. 😒

This does mean that I am, at present, 66% complete on HB Studios' physical golf game library:

I'm only missing physical versions of PGA Tour 2K21 and PGA Tour 2K25 - and the latter is going to be Expensive since it's still brand new.

Now the most interesting part of the haul this time around - apart from We Love Golf's unlockable Capcom-character costumes, because who doesn't want to golf as Chun-Li (well, certainly a non-zero amount of people) - is The Golf Club 2019's course editor. Unfortunately, the online servers for this game have been down for quite a while, but we do still have some evidence of them in use, by way of Jon Bois and Kofie Yeboah of Secret Base. In their excellent Fumble Dimension series, they challenged each other to eighteen holes of absolute nonsense, constructed by their thousands of patrons in an exquisite corpse of a course that T&E Soft's Devil's Course could only have nightmares about.

I lost count of how many cows lost consciousness during this video.

As far as how I've been playing these, well, a relative of mine was getting rid of the console they belong to. I felt there was no reason for it to gather dust, and took it off their hands for due compensation. Let corporate be none the wiser about it. I like to think I've cost the company more money than they'd have made off of me.

But anyway, that's the update for this arbitrary time-gap. Do find ways to enjoy yourselves in this increasingly uncertain world we live in, and failing that, I can provide hug emojis and words of potential encouragement (because, store-credit aside, I'm still only barely scooting by).