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Access, Game Gear, Tiertex

World Class Leaderboard, Game Gear

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The Game Gear has a surprisingly good conversion of World Class Leaderboard in its library. It was programmed by British company Tiertex and published by Sega in 1991.

Anyone who knows golf games will know Leaderboard – created by Bruce and Roger Carver of Access Software – because it was one of the first really good golf games ever made for home computers. It has a very simple but effective control system that makes its easy to play and understand. All versions of Leaderboard use this two-bar, two-press control system, including this conversion on the Game Gear.

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Game Boy Color, Nintendo

Wario Land 3, Game Boy Color

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Wario Land 3 is the sequel to Wario Land II and was developed and published for the Game Boy Color by Nintendo in 2000. It once again features Mario‘s rival, Wario, doing what he does best: shoulder-barging things and cheekily going about his destructive platform business.

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Amstrad CPC, Bad Video Games, Canvas, US Gold

Leaderboard, Amstrad CPC

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The 1987 Amstrad CPC conversion of Leaderboard was developed by Canvas – the same team who made the ZX Spectrum version. And – in truth – it’s definitely the worst version of Leaderboard available, falling massively short of the Commodore 64 original.

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Access, Canvas, US Gold, ZX Spectrum

World Class Leaderboard, ZX Spectrum

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The more fully-featured sequel to Leaderboard on the Spectrum is better than its predecessor, but not without its problems.

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Access, Canvas, US Gold, ZX Spectrum

Leaderboard, ZX Spectrum

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The ZX Spectrum conversion of the classic Commodore 64 game, Leaderboard, was coded by Roy Gibson and Ian Weatherburn, with graphics by Simon Butler, and was published by US Gold in 1987.

While it is playable enough it’s fair to say that it is probably the most bare-bones and basic conversion of this great golf game out there.

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Access, Commodore 64, US Gold

Leaderboard: Executive Edition, Commodore 64

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The 1987 follow-up to the classic Leaderboard, the Executive Edition features four new golf courses with new features such as bunkers and trees. It’s essentially the same great game as Leaderboard, with the same simple control system and simulation of ball movement.

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Access, Commodore 64, US Gold

Leaderboard, Commodore 64

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The original Leaderboard was developed by Bruce and Roger Carver for the Commodore 64 and was published by Access Software in North America and US Gold in Europe. Leaderboard was the best-selling C64 game of 1986 in the UK.

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Camelot Software Planning, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo

Mario Golf: Advance Tour, Game Boy Advance

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Mario Golf: Advance Tour was released in 2004 and was developed by Camelot Software Planning for Nintendo.

It is similar in many ways to Mario Tennis: Power Tour – it’s like an RPG with golfing elements – and it is a lot of fun to play.

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Game Boy Advance, Realism, Sega

Super Monkey Ball Jr., Game Boy Advance

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Super Monkey Ball Jr. is a conversion of the classic GameCube game by Sega. It was first released in North America in 2002, and in 2003 in Europe.

From what I can tell Super Monkey Ball Jr. was never released in Japan… That can’t be right… I thought the Japanese were (rightly) mad for Super Monkey Ball?!

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