This month's Game Club is, was, and shall forever be: HAL Laboratory's 1994 Kirby-soaked golf-em-up, Kirby's Dream Course!

Sean and Alon go for the pin and dive deep into a studio's long-gestating exploration of the mechanics of golf, discovering what happens when that pink puffball we all know and love floats onto the green.

Is Kirby's Dream Course a hole in FUN?

Fore!

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00:00 - Cold open

00:00:31 - Admin stuff

00:01:11 - Where do we start?

00:02:33 - Is this golf?

00:09:33 - What’s Kirby's Dream Course?

00:11:22 - The punishment for messing around and how do players learn (and get better)

00:24:39 - Tension building

00:26:57 - Not chilling and playful learning

00:27:59 - Adaptation of golf or Kirby or… Special Tee Shot

00:41:06 - Overdesigned?

00:45:53 - Golf caddie

00:47:26 - The power and the guide

00:50:38 - Multiplayer

00:54:27 - What it sounds like

00:56:33 - Information in HAL golf games

01:01:55 - What’s a Kirby Nintendo game?

01:11:43 - ROM hacks

01:13:36 - Outro

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SHOW NOTES

[Dev Talk] Axyz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYt-bpBG570

[Dev Talk] Once Upon A Galaxy with Andrew Parnell https://youtu.be/Is9l9kDa_lI?si=m09BfXMaiu0xWG4L

Telemelt https://telemelt.com/

The Jeff Gerstmann Show https://www.youtube.com/c/TheJeffGerstmannShow

Hal's Hole in One Golf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal's_Hole_in_One_Golf

Earthbound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EarthBound

Golf (NES/Famicom) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_(1984_video_game)

Jumbo Ozaki no Hole in One Professional https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Jumbo_Ozaki_no_Hole_in_One_Professional

Kula World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kula_World

Marble Madness https://archive.org/details/arcade_marble

Mario Golf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Golf_(video_game)

Mario Tennis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Tennis

Special Tee Shot https://snescentral.com/article.php?id=0037

Super Billiards https://www.myabandonware.com/game/super-billiards-mxo

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