I've been thinking about Golf Games lately. I play HotShots:OT2 four or five times a week, and when I do it's always for a couple hours or more. I finished the first PSP HSG 100%. Now I'm starting to play TW:'09 All-Play.
I play golf video games. From the first NES title (which I shot a legitimate -21 on) up to the latest. I've played all of the Nintendo titles and also Swing Away Golf and Tiger Woods 2004/2006. And those are just the ones I liked. I have the Greg Norman golf title that was on the NES, Wailea Links that was on the N64 and several others that are pure crap.
I'm a video golf fanboy for sure. But I'm also a fan of golf and a golfer. I watch at least half of the PGA Tour events every year and always the Majors. I play 20+ rounds of golf/year and go out to the range to hit balls and practice 20+ times/year. I pay my membership dues to the USGA every year. I've been playing golf for 32 years (and that's not including putt-putt golf).
The strange thing (at least to me) is that none of the people I play with play video games or have the slightest interest in playing them. That changes a little with Wii Sports but that's with lapsed golfers. A few of my video game friends actually got up the urge to go hit the links and play some real golf after some Wii Sports golf. It didn't turn into anything regular except with one guy but it is counter-intuitive that a video game would get someone to go outside and walk 4 miles.
So the people I play with regularly don't play video games, not even golf video games. Admittedly the age group (40-78) isn't that great a demographic for video gamers but a few of them were playing the NES and were part of that craze when they were young adults. Still, they have no interest in video games and most refuse to play video games except some Wii Sports and especially Wii Golf but only at a party or during breaks at a Poker night (after they've had a few). They don't go home and buy a Wii after playing Wii Golf. Most of them have a Wii anyway because their wife bought one for Wii Fit or there's one there for the grand-kids to play. But they don't play Wii Sports at home, not even Wii Golf. Some people are just not video gamers... or, the machine that will make them one hasn't been invented yet.
P.S. - The latest changes at VGC are an improvement.
P.P.S. - I'm going to stop proof reading these blog posts. So if theres typol (I'm dylsexic) or misspellings, missing words and gramatical errors their just gunna be that way. So they're, hah.
