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Zany Golf, also known as Will Harvey's Zany Golf, is an off-the-wall, whimsical fantasy take on a miniature golf computer game, developed by Sandcastle Productions and published by Electronic Arts. The game originated on the Apple IIGS computer platform in 1988 and was so successful, it became the first Apple IIGS game title to attract the mainstream gaming market and be ported to other platforms. Consequently ports were written and released for the Amiga, Atari ST and DOS machines. It wasn't long before it had even been ported to the gaming console world, appearing for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis in 1990. The original version, however, stood out from later ports as it was designed to fully exploit the 15-voice Ensoniq music synthesizer found in the Apple IIGS, producing one of the most unique, creative and ear-filling musical soundtrack scores found in a video game, possibly to date. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Grammatical person, in linguistics, is deictic reference to the participant role of a referent, such as the speaker, the addressee, and others. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video games. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Electronic Arts (EA) (NASDAQ: ERTS) is an American developer, marketer, publisher, and distributor of computer and video games. ... The Apple IIGS, the fifth model inception of the Apple II, was the most powerful member of the Apple II series of personal computers made by Apple Computer. ... The Apple IIGS, the fifth model inception of the Apple II, was the most powerful member of the Apple II series of personal computers made by Apple Computer. ... This article is about the family of home computers. ... The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was commercially popular from 1985 to the early 1990s. ... Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ... In computer science, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed (e. ... The Sega Mega Drive ) is a video game console released by Sega in Japan in 1988, North America in 1989, and the PAL region in 1990. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... The Apple IIGS, the fifth model inception of the Apple II, was the most powerful member of the Apple II series of personal computers made by Apple Computer. ...

The game is played in via a 3D isometric viewpoint. It is unusual in allowing up to 8 players. A three dimensional object has height, width and depth. ... An isometric drawing of a cube. ...

The game was developed by Will Harvey, Ian Gooding, Jim Nitchals, and Douglas Fulton. This game was developed while Harvey was pursuing his advanced degrees at Stanford University. Will Harvey (born ~1967) is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and game programmer who first made his mark in the video game industry when he was just fifteen and still in high school. ... “Stanford” redirects here. ...

Zany Golf is a version of mini golf with some features that are impossible in real, physical mini golf. Zany Golf only consists of half a golf course, i.e. 9 holes, although there is a bonus hole. The holes are as follows: Miniature golf, also known as mini-golf, crazy golf or Putt-Putt, is a game modelled after the sport of golf. ...

1. Windmill Hole: The ball has to be shot into a windmill, or slide down the ramp below, to enter the second area.
2. Hamburger Hole: The hole is covered by a bouncing hamburger, reached by bouncing the ball off a ketchup bottle that squirts.
3. Walls: Several walls continuously rise from the ground and fall back down. Depending on the timing, these can deflect the ball in unusual ways.
4. Pinball: The level begins as a game of pinball, where you can hit the ball with the flippers after shooting it.
5. Fans: Fans positioned along the level allow blowing the ball in a different direction.
6. Magic Carpet: A special "magic" surface covering most of the level allows direct mouse control over the ball.
7. Castle: The ball has to be shot up a hill, to enter into a castle or holes outside it, to enter the second area.
8. Ant Hill: The hole itself moves.
9. Energy: Consists of various devilish contraptions all over the place, with buttons that activate deadly laser beams, energy blasters, teleporters and suction tubes. Widely regarded as the most difficult hole by far.
10. ???: This bonus hole is accessed by either completing the entire course under par, or by putting into a secret hole on the Energy level with exact timing. This level consists of a Breakout-style scenario, followed by a challenge where the ball must be putted across a checkerboard square, where alternate squares when rolled over teleport the ball back to the start.

Due to the lack of a mouse or similar pointing device, the Sega Genesis edition of the game omitted the 'Magic Carpet' hole. Instead, the '???' bonus hole from the computer game appears after 'Ant Hill', although it has been renamed 'Knockout Nightmare.' A Dutch tower windmill, sporting sails, surrounded by tulips A windmill is an engine powered by the wind to produce energy, often contained in a large building as in traditional post mills, smock mills and tower mills. ... This article is about the food item. ... This article is about the arcade game. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... Operating a mechanical 1: Pulling the mouse turns the ball. ... For other uses, see Castle (disambiguation). ... Experiment with a laser (US Military) In physics, a laser is a device that emits light through a specific mechanism for which the term laser is an acronym: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. ... Teleportation, or teletransportation, is the process of moving objects (or more likely with present techniques, fundamental particles) from one place to another by encoding information about the object, transmitting the information to another place, such as on a radio signal, and creating a copy of the original object in the... This computer game has been incorrectly referred to or categorized with the PC game misnomer. ... The Mega Drive/Genesis was a 16-bit video game console released by Sega in Japan (1988), Europe (1990) and most of the rest of the world as the Mega Drive. ...

External links

• Zany Golf Megadrive review from Mean Machines Archive
• Zany Golf at MobyGames
• A review of the Amiga version
• About the Apple IIgs version
• Zany Golf download