Updates & Acquisitions

June 15, 2026

Golfshrine progresses slowly, and so do I. I am now 39, and I have a lot to think about. But this is not a woe-is-me update. That's not what you good people come here for. The Stuff acquired on this update is fairly light, because most of today's update is going to be News. Golf news.

Thank you, Snakeman!

Item One of Two this time is the Robert Trent Jones, Jr. Classic Golf CD-ROM screensaver, boasting "more than 75 exclusive images." One of those items that isn't really a golf game, but cool person Snakeman found it at a thrift shop for a pittance and immediately thought of me. I'm all about that kind of "thought-of-you" trinket. This one did require me to modify the cardboard inserts just slightly to fit into a proper case (as the original case had gone missing), but it shall be safe within the walls (shelves) of Golfshrine.

And thank you, Mom!

Item Two, then, is this update's only physical game. My mom heard about Luke Muscat's new game (I'll detail that below) and wanted to buy me a copy for my birthday, but since that isn't out yet (as of this writing), she decided she'd buy me any other golf game. So, I now own Golden Tee Arcade Classics, Digital Eclipse's very good collection of emulated Golden Tee Golf arcade games. All of these games are from the era of Golden Tee 3D Golf, running on the same hardware; the collection does not include Golden Tee 1 or 2 (or the weird, joystick-based Golden Par Golf). The best way to play these is with touch-screen mode enabled, by the way; they did try to make analog stick controls work, but they're Very Fiddly. I was very surprised to find (as they spilled out on the floor) that this collection includes three miniature arcade marquee cards, which would be perfect for an appropriately tiny arcade machine. It also includes Shuffleshot, a trackball-controlled shuffleboard game that I enjoy rather a lot. Great value, and DE did a good job calibrating the virtual trackball to feel Just Right.

Anyway, On To The News.

• Luke Muscat, creator of Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, announces a proper title and playable demo for his unnecessarily detailed simulation of golf: Normal Golf Game.
• By way of fellow Craig Stadler enthusiasts, Sega Saturn Shiro!, Golfshrine's learned that Waialae no Kiseki: Extra 36 Holes - a Japanese-only, enhanced Sega Saturn version of Waialae Country Club - has had an English localization buried in its code for almost 30 years with nobody noticing. A patch is available to permanently set the game to English mode, but the patch isn't strictly necessary; English can be accessed by holding L+C+X+Down while the game boots.
• On that note of T&E Soft... Matt Sephton shares photographs of a sales leaflet, heralding T&E's 5th anniversary in 1987 (hey, that's the year I was born!), with some wonderfully uplifting and optimistic English text printed on it.
• Walkabout Mini-Golf - a VR miniature golf game already on my radar for offering a Myst Island course - hits another one of my interests by revealing a collaboration with Homestar Runner with all the energy that such a thing demands.
• Golf meets multiplayer brawler? Super Battle Golf has apparently been out for several months now, and mysteriously was not on my Steam wishlist. It is now.
• And lastly, Golfshrine takes a rare principled stand: we do not want a modern reproduction cartridge of Neo Turf Masters. Please do not buy that for us. Do not fund SNK's current owners. We refuse to support them on moral grounds.