mr_intv Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Just for fun, This weekend share your score for the first Intellivision Open. Lowest score gets bragging rights! Contest closes Sunday Jan 21 at 8pm MT(10 ET) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mthompson Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 (edited) Edited January 19, 2018 by mthompson 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_intv Posted January 19, 2018 Author Share Posted January 19, 2018 Love the logo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_intv Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 (edited) I can definitely do better.... Edited January 20, 2018 by mr_intv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_intv Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 48.....a little better... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-crew Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Well I know I wont have bragging rights already , lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_intv Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 42.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_intv Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 Surely there are more golfers out there........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_intv Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 I never really noticed before but the layout of the trees and such changes from game to game.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-crew Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Surely there are more golfers out there........ Their all in Vagas having a golf vacation... ;p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 (edited) First round score: 44Not bad, haven't played in a very long time. edit: It takes some practice to judge distances and know what your clubs can do. The computer doesn't calculate your distance to the hole for you. I played this game quite a bit; it's amazing how much you can remember. Once you get good you can take chances and hit over the trees and over the big pond. Par is 38 and scores as low as 33 are possible. Edited January 20, 2018 by mr_me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-crew Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Hey you guys are ringers in this game called Gorf,,,, ops Golf... lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_intv Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 I seem to do quite well on 7 holes, and horrible on 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jointfilms.com Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 (edited) funny thing is when I was a kid my neighbor had golf and we maybe played it once.... maybe twice.... but when I got the flashback I found myself really enjoying the original golf game for some reason. Edited January 20, 2018 by jointfilms.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 With the stretched 16x9 aspect ratio your east-west shots will appear to go further then north-south shots. That might make it difficult to judge distance, power, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarifan88 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 With the stretched 16x9 aspect ratio your east-west shots will appear to go further then north-south shots. That might make it difficult to judge distance, power, etc. I've played it on an HD TV and it's actually easier to judge those shots thanks to the much sharper image! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 You're aware that your same TV can display emulated Intellivision games in 1080p and 4:3 aspect ratio. It will be just as sharp and your Intellivision golf shots will look more consistent as they were originally designed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_intv Posted January 22, 2018 Author Share Posted January 22, 2018 (edited) And the winner is......Me! With s 42. And not to confuse everyone mr_me is second with a 44! But dont stop here. Keep playing and lets get scores below 40! Edited January 22, 2018 by mr_intv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpmaul69 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 IGA Tour tall.pngi need this shirt.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gernot Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 (edited) sad i missed this competition, but show me one who scores 33, i never reached such a low score (and i'm the one who rebuilded the course layout for twpga2k). theoretically possible to make 9 birdies, practically due to the random, wind, trees (heights) and greens surface it's impossible to reach that. the reason (and i certainly wrote this once) why i like the PGA Golf so much. it is unpredictable, each round is somewhat different, even if you know all the clubs (and i do know them by the heart), you will miss often. to play 2 or three strokes under par is very good, to reach par is already good. missed it, but i hope we have such a small competition again, i'm unfortunately in the near future not often online thus i missed this. damned i realy love to play golf, it was my very first game for the intellivision along with soccer which was sold here with the console. golf stayed for many years a favorite game for me and my buddy back then, form intellivision, over sega to finally PS1 (twpga) we competed in many golf games. 1$ per stroke you lead. hmm... i wouldn't say that the "stretching" to 16/10 makes judging more difficult, vice versa i would say, you see, but yes on a 16:10 tv try not to stretch a 3/4 relation. however, as long as one pixel (the hole itself as example) is exact cubic, it's the better proportion. mr-me's image is 3/4 and you can see it's the wrong aspect. jointfilm.com's image is overstreched to 16/10 and it's also the wrong aspect ratio. unfortunately i moved my inty to my home and thus i can't show what i think is the proper aspect. golf can be helpful, but best to check the aspect ratio is "astrosmash". the extra ships on the bottom give you a good reference for this, each gun has to appear the same, the hole in the middle of the gun has to be exactly cubic on all reserve guns, tv or computer, if this is reached the aspect equals to the pixels and because of this distances in a game like golf will be proper. do not input on a tv the signal as 4/3 on a 16/10 widescreen, it will overstrech the image (jointfilm's example). neither input it as 4/3 and set your 16/10 tv to 4/3 to reproduce the old 4/3 aspect, the display will be exactly like on a old 4/3 tv, but this aspect is wrong even if nothing else was possible back then. imho, the best is to handle the intellivisions output as 16/10, the tv won't strech the image neither to 16/10 nor to 4/3 and the aspect will be proper (even when it was displayed back in the 80's as 4/3, we had only such tv's, and i assume the aspect was on a PAL tv even worse as on a ntsc with a few less lines) besides, yes i remember well when i was young and we measured the centimeters on the screen to get a idea of the yardage, lol. another hint i can give is, that if you input it as 16/10 the playfield is quite small ( a lot of border) thus us a a zoom, but one who didn't changes the aspect. don't strech to 16/10 it is already very close to this aspect with 159 / 100 pixels (well that IS 16/10). to repeat what we had on our tv's back in the 80's wasn't the proper aspect ratio, the image was like in mr_me's image streched vertically, unfortunately and not to change. ok if you truthfully like to get a image like in the 80's use it as 4/3 aspect and don't strech it. if you like a close to pixel aspect, use the inty's output as 16/10 and don't strech it. (on jointfilm.com's, example, one can see very well the input is handled like a 4/3 aspect but the output is streched then to 16/10) at least this is what i recommend. handle the inty as 16/10, and the aspect will equal the pixel aspect. it's (unfortunately) NOT golf, bu a example how the aspect looks on my mom's tv (it's zoomed but the signal is handled as 16/10 aspect). a "bad shot", but it shows how it looks like (i didn't found recently a better one) signal is handled as 16/10 aspect. "for some reason" i always liked Golf. ---- off topic. not to long ago i've read som e debatet about that 16/10 or widescreen at all doesn't fits to the human field of view and that the 4/3 aspect was closer to our field of view. i like the 16/10 widescreen format, but what do you think? do you even think that 4/3 reproduced better the human field of view (i don't think so)? Edited January 22, 2018 by Gernot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 I don't know about nine birdies but some eagles are possible. If you're fortunate with tree placement hole nine can be four shots, three with luck. Hole one can be done in two shots if you're lucky. Like I said with some holes you'll have to hit over trees for lower score. I said 33 is possible because I know this first hand. The 4:3 aspect ratio is what the programmers of all the original games used. The original Intellivision pixel is not square. If today someone wants to program an Intellivision game they can certainly do it for a 16:9 aspect ratio. At 16:9 intellivision pixels will be close to square. So 16:9 might actually be better for Intellivision but unfortunately the original games weren't programmed that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gernot Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 (edited) right, this is taken to account, the aspect was 4:3, obviousely this was respected when they programmed the games. while i'm really not sure for golf, because respecting a 4:3 aspect would have ment to make shots in vertical direction of a different length (disrespecting the pixel aspect) of which i think this is hardly possible. a 100 yards shot is a 100 yards, but in 4:3 the distance it makes it's in vertical direction looks longer (on the screen) as in horizontal, else you would have to change the length (shorten distance for the streched vertical, i guess hardly this has been made). nonetheless i prefere a 16:10 relation, to me it looks better and i even feel the distances are proper for golf, but however it's somewhat a matter of choice, some prefere a truthful 4:3 some a close to pixel aspect 16:10. my statement wasn't ment to criticize your choice. right yes it's possible to make eagles on hole 9, with a cool shot over that tree and positioning the ball right on front of the lake, a wood three will reach then over the pit and you're already in a good position to hole in. but usually if i play well on the last hole (or any) i finished two other holes as bogey (or even dbl bogey). i'm really satisfied with par or two under. (it's possible to play a 9 stroke game , 255 is the max. count for a hole, position in front of the hole on the green, smash the ball out of bounds from there (it will return to the position and count a penalty) when you reach 255 put in, a hole in one on every hole!) out of competition but not cheated my best result this year: lucky me, no tree in front of the tee on hole 9 Edited January 22, 2018 by Gernot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 (edited) I guess we'll have to measure the shots to know for sure. But having played Intellivision PGA Golf so many times back in the 1980s the stretched 16:9 aspect ratio looks completely wrong. Now if you played it on a PAL intellivision you might not think the same way. Pal intellivisions vertically compress the picture changing the aspect ratio as well. Maybe somewhere between 16:9 and 4:3. Edit:. Not only no trees in front of the tee but no trees on the other side of the pond. Edited January 23, 2018 by mr_me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gernot Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 yes, it's a lucky layout. no we wouldn't have to measure them, i guess because i had a very long pause of playing on a intellivision, from mid 80's to late 90's i feel more comfortable with the aspect ratio of a 16:10 display. but i guess if would have played continuosely i would say the same as you, 4:3 is better - i'm used to. especially for golf where your experience plays a big role, i assume you are used to judge distances in a 4:3 aspect anything else will mislead you. due to my long pause i'm used to play in 16:10 (16:9? i haven't) i judge the distance in this way and yes playing on my old tube confuses me a little, of course i know which club i like to use, still i misjudge distances. measuring, reminds me really of the old days and makes me laugh, i said i remember that well, we swiss "cowboys" had really no idea about golf, i guess back in the early eighties we had one parcour in whole switzerland and it was in the french speaking part (at least i only can remeber this one because i visited my sister who was working as au pair in the french part). it has changed and we have now many small country ciubs even migros (which is a supermarket chain) has it's own golf parcours, not for the employees, for the customers. "duttweiler" the founder back in the 30's was convinced that a part of the money should be payed back to the customers in form of such things like "culture for everyone". we play soccer (i don't have to tell that) and soccer and maybe soccer. of course we have other sports like tennis (was in my intention reserved for the wealthy), and some very swiss like, like throwing a large piece of rock (Unspunnenstein) or "Hornussen", which i can't compare to anything else, you hit a small ball like in baseball but use a sort of whip to drive the ball from a ramp, the opponent team has a sort of shuffles to catch the ball. but well - soccer. i never was good in real soccer, i was always standing aside thus i never get good and because of this i never liked the sport when i was a child. but skiing, that's my sport, it belongs to the alps (has belonged, the snow is gone). i wasn't bad and 53 as i am i look back and think i was a idiot. i had the chance to become a downhiller, but i didn't liked to training hard and to give up my friends for this. (playing golf on a console is far less stressing, even when that was 6 or 7 years before and the only videogame i knew was daddy's pong. i had later a handheld, remembering this i wonder now if i find out which one it was, a sort of missile defense and "everybody" judged me as "brutal" and "violent". besides "violent" i watched the commercial for "B-17" and now i know why this game was on the blacklist, we still had big problems with WW2 in the 80's, it was a sort of tabu. not to imagine such a commercial would have been broadcasted in europe, never! me i always liked my tanks, airplanes, soldiers, but was always judged as "violent" for this, hm yes but if i look at the world i still have to say it's far better to melt down some plastic soldiers as to send real men to war) to be honest, i also guess i never would have become a star rather someone who's in the team but never reaches a top score. i'm a egoist in sport Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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