Updates & Acquisitions

September 3, 2026

My desire to write updates tends to waver, particularly waiting until I've done something else of note to remind myself that I can, in fact, write things. This month's burst of morale comes from finally getting around to fixing the site layout to not completely break for mobile users, by relocating the navigation bar to the top of the page (and thanks again go to mavica for helping me through all of that nonsense).

A spread of things I'd been holding off about for quite a while.

Most of this update comes in the form of things that I've kept seeing at the local game shop and only decided to finally buy because I couldn't think of anything else to do with my store credit. And, truth be told, I amassed a pretty large amount of that. I've been taking a good, hard look at the state of my video game library, and realizing that, You Know What? I don't need all of these. I barely play most of them. A lot of the games I own are just random junk I found and only kept because it filled the shelf. Plenty of the games are things that I realized over time that I just did not care about (like the PS2 Shin Megami Tensei games). Better that they go to homes where they'd be appreciated.

So, over time, a lot of things got taken down to the local. I'd banked a couple hundred bucks worth of credit in the hope that maybe they'd have a console I wanted at some point, but I guess people just aren't trading those in lately. So, I did what any reasonable Golfshriner would do (which is to say, I did what I would do, because I am the only one of those) and finally splurged my credit on a bunch of the slightly more expensive golf games that I'd have otherwise skipped. Just not the really expensive stuff; I may have a hole burning in my wallet, but I'm still not going to pay $90 USD for a physical of Golf Story.

So, upon converting a significant portion of my normal game library into golf games, this update comes with the following new additions to the Shrine:

Had I not waited until Today to write up this update, that would have been everything. Dad, however, was poking through his garage cabinets again, an apparent treasure trove of software from times long past. Today, he unearthed several CD-spindles (yes, spindles, from emptied out containers of blank CD-Rs) filled with all the CDs we no longer wanted to have. His intent was to turn the lot into wall-art. About 95% of the CDs were America On-Line trial discs, of the type we used to receive in the mail every other week, or EarthLink, or CompuServe, or MSN, or AT&T WorldNet, or Total Entertainment Network, or... (cough). A lot of spam, frankly. But I'm glad I dug through the lot anyway, because that remaining 5% included the likes of...

THIS guy!
This tiny little dude.

The little guy is, I'm going to say, Golfshrine's first Mini CD-ROM; it is a promotional disc for the Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in North Plains, Oregon. We probably either received it in the mail, or got it from someone else we knew who had, but had no particular use for it. It's copyright-dated 2001, and is mostly just a Made-in-Macromedia brochure for the club and its amenities. But, hey, it's Golf Related Things, so it's going on the shelf somewhere.

Item(s) of particular note this time

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