atari2600land's Blog

It strikes me now that some of the early golf games, at least on computers, would shift to a different display when you're putting. You get to see the ball and the hole in much higher resolution and the putting is done using a different meter. I believe Leaderboard did this, and others I can't recall. Sincle you're already working with a putting mode, you could consider if switching to a putting screen would be doable, usable and fun.

I don't know if I want to do that or not. Golf for the Atari 2600 and Odyssey2 did this as well, but a.) I want to differentiate the controls from them, b.) I don't think I have enough room for a separate putting screen without switching to 16k, c.) I don't know how I would go about programming it and d.) I like it the way it is now.