{"id":276233,"date":"2025-07-20T02:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276233\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T02:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:05:10","slug":"golden-tee-arcade-classics-review-ps5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276233\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Tee Arcade Classics Review (PS5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Golden<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s perhaps a symbol of the current retro game boom that Golden Tee Arcade Classics<\/a> exists at all. That\u2019s not a slight, by the way \u2013 it\u2019s just remarkable that these trackball titles, often nestled between claw machines in American sports bars and restaurants, now exist in fully playable form on a home console like the PS5.<\/p>\n

For those of you outside of the US who may not be familiar with these arcade golf games, they\u2019re a bit like the real-life realisation of Lee Carvallo’s Putting Challenge from The Simpsons.<\/p>\n

While the presentation is rudimentary, they were remarkable upon release in 1995, using large colourful player sprites and vibrant course designs.<\/p>\n

You actually get six Golden Tee games here, all of which are largely the same aside from different courses, voice samples, and minor details.<\/p>\n

This package also bundles in two other trackball titles: World Class Bowling and Shuffle Shot. The former is exactly what it sounds like, while the latter is a bit like curling or boules, albeit with a kind of puck.<\/p>\n

The big problem here of course is that PS5 doesn\u2019t have a trackball controller, so gameplay concessions need to be made.<\/p>\n

The main control scheme sees you operating a cursor with the analogue stick and \u201cdragging\u201d a digital hand across a virtual trackball to replicate the experience. It\u2019s about as inadequate as it sounds.<\/p>\n

Another option utilises the DualSense\u2019s touchpad, but it\u2019s not big or precise enough to reflect the tactile nature of the input it\u2019s trying to replicate.<\/p>\n

This leaves you with the aim assist option, which comes closes to replicating the click-click-click gameplay format of a series like Everybody\u2019s Golf<\/a>, but largely strips the release of its unique selling point.<\/p>\n

The controls are the big downside here, then, because it\u2019s practically impossible to recreate the \u201cfeel\u201d of the arcade original on a pad.<\/p>\n

But we still like having these games readily available on contemporary hardware. The CRT filters included are outstanding, and this being a Digital Extremes joint, you get tons of bonus materials, like the original arcade flyers to flick through in their entirety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s perhaps a symbol of the current retro game boom that Golden Tee Arcade Classics exists at all.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3002,17182,104276,79208,154,55,6082,79,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-276233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-arcade","9":"tag-atari","10":"tag-golden-tee-arcade-classics","11":"tag-mini-reviews","12":"tag-playstation-5","13":"tag-ps5","14":"tag-reviews","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114883115401954803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}