Hot Shots Golf

This article is about the video game. For the series, see Hot Shots Golf (series).
Hot Shots Golf

European cover art
Developer(s) Camelot Software Planning
Publisher(s) Sony Computer Entertainment
Director(s) Masashi Muramori
Producer(s) Shugo Takahashi
Yasuhide Kobayashi
Composer(s) Motoi Sakuraba
Series Hot Shots Golf
Platform(s) PlayStation
Release date(s)
  • JP: 17 July 1997
  • NA: 30 April 1998
  • EU: 1 June 1998
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Hot Shots Golf (Everybody's Golf (みんなのGOLF Minna no Golf) in Japan and Europe) is the first game in the Hot Shots Golf series and the first video game released for PlayStation. It was released on 17 July 1997 in Japan, 30 April 1998 in North America and 1 June 1998 in Europe.

Reception

The game received an average score of 81.50% at GameRankings, based on an aggregate of 14 reviews.[1] Game Informer ranked it as the 87th best game ever made for their 100th issue in 2001 despite past criticisms that it wasn't a golf simulator. They praised it for its balance between simplicity and complexity.[2]

References

  1. "Hot Shots Golf for PlayStation". GameRankings. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  2. Cork, Jeff (2009-11-16). "Game Informer's Top 100 Games of All Time (Circa Issue 100)". Game Informer. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
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