Abrasco Golf is a two player game. I would have preferred to see a simple one player option as, you may well know, it is not always possible to get willing volunteers to play your computer games with you.

The program is in two parts, first the instructions and then the program proper. There are 10 pages of instructions which tell you, in far too much detail, how to play the game.

The screen display is not too impressive, and could have been mistaken for a ZX81 game on a black and white TV set. The tee is shown as a capital T (corny), and practically everything else as graphic blocks.

You are asked if you want an iron or a wood. If you choose an iron you then have to chooce between 1 and 9. If your choice is wood, you can have either 1 or 3.

Direction is chosen by compass points, and distance also has to be entered.

On the whole, Golf is not fantastic. How many more slow, Basic games can the market take?

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