Picture Perfect Golf (Game)

Picture Perfect Golf

GAME » on 1995

A golf simulation game that, instead of recreating each course on-the-fly, uses real-life digitized photographs.

Overview

Picture Perfect Golf is a golf simulation game developed by Lyriq and Jarttech and published by Priority Records (in North America) and Empire Interactive (in Europe) for DOS PCs in 1995. It also received a Windows PC release by Enteractive (in North America) and Q (Company) (in Europe) in 1997.

Similar to the 1991 game The Palm Springs Open, Picture Perfect Golf foregoes recreating each hole on-the-fly using terrain and instead uses digitized photographs of each hole from multiple perspectives. This technique was used at the time for indoor golf centers and, as such, Picture Perfect Golf is one of the few golf games of the time to not have the golfer on-screen.

The original release included the Harbour Town Golf Links (Location) in South Carolina, with some releases instead including the Sugarloaf in Maine. Some additional courses, including the Coeur d'Alene Resort in Idaho, were released as "Course Disks".