World Masters Golf
Encyclopedia
World Masters Golf is a golf
simulation video game for the Super NES
released exclusively in Europe
.
courses in order to produce continuous shading of surfaces represented by polygon meshes. Modes of gameplay are: tournament
, match play
, and practice
. There are created golfers and the option for the player to create his own. The game allows golf handicapping. Up to eight players can play. There is a Mode 7
view camera that follows the ball after it is hit. Basic information like the wind speed, distance to the flag, the number of shots required to make par
on a hole, and the number of shots already made on a hole are shown while playing the game.
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
simulation video game for the Super NES
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia , and South America between 1990 and 1993. In Japan and Southeast Asia, the system is called the , or SFC for short...
released exclusively in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
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Summary
This video game features four gouraud shadedGouraud shading
Gouraud shading, named after Henri Gouraud, is an interpolation method used in computer graphics to produce continuous shading of surfaces represented by polygon meshes...
courses in order to produce continuous shading of surfaces represented by polygon meshes. Modes of gameplay are: tournament
Tournament
A tournament is a competition involving a relatively large number of competitors, all participating in a sport or game. More specifically, the term may be used in either of two overlapping senses:...
, match play
Match play
Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; this is as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes...
, and practice
Practice (learning method)
Practice is the act of rehearsing a behavior over and over, or engaging in an activity again and again, for the purpose of improving or mastering it, as in the phrase "practice makes perfect". Sports teams practice to prepare for actual games. Playing a musical instrument well takes a lot of...
. There are created golfers and the option for the player to create his own. The game allows golf handicapping. Up to eight players can play. There is a Mode 7
Mode 7
Mode 7 is a graphics mode on the Super NES video game console that allows a background layer to be rotated and scaled on a scanline-by-scanline basis to create many different effects. The most famous of these effects this can create is the application of a perspective effect on a background layer...
view camera that follows the ball after it is hit. Basic information like the wind speed, distance to the flag, the number of shots required to make par
Par (score)
The word "par" is a term in the game of golf used to denote the pre-determined number of strokes that a scratch golfer should require to complete a hole, a round , or a tournament...
on a hole, and the number of shots already made on a hole are shown while playing the game.