Mini-Putt (video game)

{{Short description|1987 video game}}

{{Infobox video game

| title = Mini-Putt

| image = Mini-Putt Cover.jpg

| caption =

| developer = Artech Digital Entertainment
A-Wave (Famicom)

| publisher = Accolade
A-Wave (Famicom)

| series =

| engine =

| released = 1987

| genre =

| modes =

| platforms = Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Family Computer, ZX Spectrum, Apple IIGS

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Mini-Putt is a simulation of miniature golf developed by Artech Digital Entertainment and released by Accolade for the Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Family Computer (Famicom) and ZX Spectrum in 1987, and Apple IIGS in 1988. A version for the Nintendo Entertainment System based on the Famicom port was planned to be published by JVC Musical Industries in North America with a release in 1992, but it ultimately did not materialize.{{Cite magazine |date=February 1992 |title=Mini-Putt |magazine=GamePro |author=Toxic Tommy |page=34 |issue=31 |publisher=IDG Communications |issn=1042-8658}}

Gameplay

Mini-Putt is a miniature golf game featuring a variety of courses including traps and ricochets, and unusual gradations on the greens.

Reception

The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #131 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 3 out of 5 stars.{{cite journal

|title=The Role of Computers

|last1=Lesser|last2=Lesser|last3=Lesser|first1=Hartley|first2=Patricia|first3=Kirk

|journal=Dragon

|issue=131

|date=March 1988

|pages=78–86}}

References

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