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Feb. 11th, 2010 09:00 amPosting that last entry made me come to realize that I'm really also a child of the Playstation era, rather than the SNES/Genesis one like most people my age seem to be. It's something that I'd been hesitant to call nostalgia for me because it's an admission that something that I used to consider as new and amazing is now so far back in the past, but that's the way time goes - the console was released in 1995. I was eleven at the time, according to the laws of mathematics, even though I'm disinclined to believe them at this point. What really decided it was this video I just rediscovered - because if this was from a time that wasn't nostalgic for me, this would be dumbing-down blasphemy. Instead, I find it utterly hilarious.
It's the Tiger Woods 99 intro - witness EA's horribly misguided attempt to make golf exciting! And it works about as well as Matt Smith on Go 4 It. Decide the best bit for yourself - for me I think it's a draw between the shotgun noises overlaid on the swings, and the guitar track that sounds more suited to Formula 1. Making me even older, I also remember when the series started on the PC, and looked considerably more reserved.
Interestingly, when I played the 2010 version down at the Best Buy, it also inspired some nostalgia - the only game to have done that for somewhere I used to live. I was playing on the St Andrews Old Course, paying more attention to the surrounding scenery than the actual game - there's ex-Hamilton Hall, there's the path we had to walk across with our heads covered to protect ourselves from stray golf balls, there's the stream that Donald fell in on the way back from the Union. It was wonderful.
It's the Tiger Woods 99 intro - witness EA's horribly misguided attempt to make golf exciting! And it works about as well as Matt Smith on Go 4 It. Decide the best bit for yourself - for me I think it's a draw between the shotgun noises overlaid on the swings, and the guitar track that sounds more suited to Formula 1. Making me even older, I also remember when the series started on the PC, and looked considerably more reserved.
Interestingly, when I played the 2010 version down at the Best Buy, it also inspired some nostalgia - the only game to have done that for somewhere I used to live. I was playing on the St Andrews Old Course, paying more attention to the surrounding scenery than the actual game - there's ex-Hamilton Hall, there's the path we had to walk across with our heads covered to protect ourselves from stray golf balls, there's the stream that Donald fell in on the way back from the Union. It was wonderful.
