Updates & Acquisitions

December 3, 2025

I have my dad to thank for the latest round of Acquisitions; it turns out we already had some of them.

Well. Some things more legit than others.

Squirreled away in a nondescript cabinet in Dad's garage, behind several cans of spray paint and many layers of sawdust, were two Very Large floppy disk containers, containing wealths of Software, both legit and Backed Up forms. Within them, I found three Links Championship Courses (Innisbrook and Mauna Kea for Links 386, and Barton Creek for original Links), and an isolated Disk 4 of Links 386 Pro (no idea where the other 3 disks went). Spent a good couple of hours sifting through every disk in those containers, backing up all of the contents to disk images. At some point I'll also check that they aren't otherwise preserved to Internet Archive. Amazingly they all worked! Those containers were doing their jobs well, these past decades.

Another thing to thank Dad for: a trip to the Game Store.

Dad also was willing to lend me a lift to the somewhat-distant game shop, where I've had tons of store credit burning a hole in my wallet. Encouraged to spend as much of it as possible, I picked up Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 for PlayStation 2, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 Masters Historic Edition for XBox 360, and the Limited Run Games release of Okidokico's excellent A Little Golf Journey - a game that I already owned digitally via Steam, but am quite happy to have physically represented in the Shrine proper, even if I don't plan on playing it in this form. (After all, it only really cost me 3 or 4 PS2 games that I didn't want anymore.)

Guy MacGuy, whom I didn't get enough screenshots of, carries his mashie niblick to the fairway.

Tiger Woods 14 had a historical gimmick in all versions of the game. The big draw was being able to face off against historical golfers in their prime, like Nicklaus and Palmer. The Masters Historic Edition, though, includes some additional historic courses to go with it, such as the 1934 version of Augusta National, complete with sepia film-grain effects and vintage Proper Golfing Attire. One thing I was not expecting them to commit to, though, is the obsolete golf clubs. Rather than the modern nomenclature of Woods and Irons with numbers, Augusta 1934 outfits your golfer - regardless of their already chosen equipment - with the big pants, sweater vest, and an array of clubs with names like "niblick," "spade mashie," and "cleek." I'd always thought Golf Story was joking about those, but nah, you absolutely do need to choose between your brassie or your spoon when estimating the distance of your next shot.

As for the other Tiger game, I popped that one up in my emulator with the intent of producing another Golfer for the Gallery. I have named him... Milton. See more of him at that page I made about it.

He sort of came out looking like the millionaire tycoon villain from a 1930s film.

With the amount of loose floppy disks now in Golfshrine's collection, I've had to make a change to how floppies are presented, because I don't have enough standees (or space for standees) on the shelf to accommodate them all. With some organizational finesse, I was able to free up a container in just the right format...

Introducing: Golfloppyshrine, and an excuse to bust out the Dymo labeler again. (Buick? What? Check my article to learn more.)

Other remarks worth noting this time around...