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I had some fun with a few waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back on Windows 97.

We actually had Windows 97. Most people remember this as a hoax, and maybe it was, but I definitely remember seeing the Windows 97 splash screen when you would boot up. And it had stuff like this little guy on shutdown who would say "It is now REALLY safe to turn off your computer." I remember it vividly. Now whether my dad got tricked into buying a fake OS, maybe a 95 somebody hacked and threw a skin on, I don't know, but our PC definitely had Windows 97.

Anyway.

There were two golf-related games I used to play on this PC. One was Geogolf, an edutainment mini golf game that despite being clearly edutainment (we even knew this at the time) was surprisingly fun. You would give it an angle, in multiples of 5 degrees, and a power level and take your stroke. My sister and I played the hell out of it. There were only 18 holes, all of them perfectly flat,but we played them over and over until we had memorized the exact angle that would get you a hole-in-one. There was no reason not to go full power; if the ball touched the hole, it went in.

There was another game that I don't remember the title of, which was a pretty cookoe-cutter camera-behind-the-golfer golf game with full-size courses, wind effects, etc. We played that one a lot too. It was p fun but not a lot of explaining to do.

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