When I came back to the Spectrum via emulation I imagined that there might be a decent Crazy Golf game produced for it in the intervening years. To my mind the Spectrum is the perfect platform for an isometric golfing game - Bobby Bearing but with a putter and windmills to play through.
This game has 4 nine hole 2D courses with slopes indicated only by arrows. Only one course of the four has any animated objects to avoid even though the game has spilled into 2 separate loads.
It looks and plays like a compiled basic game with really poor graphics.
Perhaps the worst bit is that this game has a selection menu with all four courses on it but choose either of the wrong two (those intended for the flipside of the cassette) and the game will crash during play.
Hole 2 of the animated course is the most frustrating. There is an elephant on the course and every indication that the right decision is to play the ball into the reach of its extending trunk and watch the ball shoot through the elephant and into the hole. But no such imagination applies. The trunk is just an object to be avoided (much like the game).
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