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NOTE: THIS RUNS ON A 48k ZX SPECTRUM COMPUTER and you'll need an EMULATOR or the real thing to run it on. 

THIS DOES NOT PLAY ON REGULAR PC without an emulator!

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UPDATE: A NEW COURSE HAS ARRIVED! Meanie Golf SIDE B is in a different file, but it's the same game with a new 18 hole course to play on! Everyone who owns Meanie Golf gets SIDE B for free. Have fun!

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Meanie Golf:  An 18 hole mini-golf game for your 48k ZX Spectrum home computer (or emulator).

It's feeding time at Monster Castle minigolf course. Feed the monsters beneath by pow-ing the meanies into each hole. Try to make less shots than par.

Choose from the main menu if you would like to play single player or two player (hot seat). There is also a practice mode if you'd like to choose a particular hole and play that without progressing to the others.

Once you've chosen a single or 2 player game, you can then choose whether to play 9 holes of the course or the full 18 holes.

The game is a top-down mini golf game. Use the left and right keys to line up your shot (the moving reticule should help you to see where the ball will go). Press and hold the fire button. The longer you hold down the fire button, the more powerful your shot will be. The POW-ER bar in the bottom right is there to help give you a guide for how hard you are hitting shots.

Play with the Spectrum keyboard or with Kempston or Sinclair compatible joysticks.

Keyboard controls (redefinable from main menu):

  • O - Turn Left
  • P - Turn Right
  • SPACE - Take the shot
  • H - Toggle pause

Made by Jeff Murray and Ethan Murray, in 2023 with MPAGD. All the graphics and most scripting was made by Jeff with some awesome extra maths stuff by Ethan Murray.

Thanks to Jonathan Cauldwell and Kees van Oss for MPAGD and thanks to YOU for keeping the Speccy dream alive! 

I really hope you enjoy this game!!


StatusReleased
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
AuthorPsychicParrot
Tagsminigolf, retrocomputing, speccy, ZX Spectrum

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Click download now to get access to the following files:

MeanieGolf.tap 36 kB
MeanieGolfSideB.tap 38 kB
Meanie Golf SideA and SideB .tap and .z80 79 kB

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It only took me 3hrs to get the joke.

You got there eventually, that’s all that really matters! 🤣👍 

Game is fantastic, the entire family is playing this one. Even a close friend came over and sat in front of it for an hour playing it. Addictive, pleasant to look at with excellent graphics, controls are spot on, even has good sound! Love it. Making a video on it for sure. Thanks for the extra 18 holes! That's great value!

This is like music to my ears (or, eyes, since I'm reading it!!) .. anyway, thank you so much for that post! That's amazing - really puts a smile on my face - and I'm really looking forward to your video. Hope you enjoy the new course!

I am also looking forward to making the video! I WILL SOON! haha. I got involved with a few QA projects so I'm a bit behind in making youtube videos, fear not! haha Still one of the most played games in this house.

Is there any demo playable to publish your awesome game ?

Fun, very smooth, well done, challenging...just great!!! Something very different from what we usually see in MPAGD.

Very very very funny.

Congratulations on this great mini golf!!!

Heyyy thank you so much for writing that, Zilog! Made my day :) I'm super happy you enjoyed it!

OK, Heres the review, also i found a game break bug will tweet you the video clip :)

TinyTim78: That's different


Sloanysoft: Hilariously cruel

HandheldHannahScott: A hole in some

RetroHitch: Bugger!

Brilliant game, highly playable, highly frustrating, highly worth a couple of bucks.

Def a go back and play again game, thank you so much, I loved it, my viewers loved it, hopefully they all now pay for it!

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I couldn't have fixed it without you and it was great to be able to see you running the fixed version on your stream afterward, too. Thanks for a great stream and for your amazing support of my stuff. I really appreciate what you do.

The new version is up on here and I've also tweaked the positioning so the ball should never appear in a wall again!

will grab the latest latest then :)

Brilliant fun. The Speccy doesn't have enough mini golf games, but this definitely helps address that in style.

Love the feeling of satisfaction when you sink a tricky putt & the chomping animation always makes me smile.  

Great stuff.

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Thanks, Sloany! I think the chomping animation and chomp chomp noises are some of my best work ever :)

Cheers dude, look forward to playing/streaming this one. Jack Dragon went down well on Twitch and I am sure this one will too.

Will give opinions after :)

Awww maaan I wish I'd seen that! I'm sure I enabled notifications but I'm gonna have to check it cos it never tells me when anyone streams anymore :( I really hope you enjoy it. Thanks so much for what you do- I really appreciate it man.

Ahhh I looked at your stream  schedule and it's like 4am here when you stream.. that might explain why I never get notified!

Nice game!

Oh my gosh that was fast! Thanks so much for playing it and for making an awesome video :)