Everybody's Golf
A humorous golf series with cartoon characters and realistic physics.
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The first game, Everybody's Golf (1997), included modes such as Tournament, Training, Stroke Play, and Match Play, plus a Miniature Golf course.[1] Players could unlock characters by defeating them and earn experience points through tournaments and varied shots.[1] It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment and developed by Hyde, not by series developer Clap Hanz.[2] The ball-striking mechanic in Everybody's Golf 3, also known as Hot Shots Golf 3, employed the identical "3 click" method that was in the prior game.[3]
Worldwide sales of that title surpassed one million copies.[3] In its debut week, Everybody's Golf 5 achieved sales of more than 150,000 units.[4] A global launch for that game occurred in August 2017.[5]
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The 2017 Polygon article reported that Sony's Shuhei Yoshida first announced the PS4 game, previously known as New Hot Shots Golf, back in 2014.[6] That same article noted the game would include online features and non-golfing activities such as fishing, buggy racing, and treasure hunting in an open world environment.[6] The article also stated the most recent entry before 2017 was Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational, released for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita in 2012.[6]
References
- Wikipedia, "Everybody's Golf" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Anderson, "Hot Shots Golf", FuncoLand, April 1998 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Everybody's Golf" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Romano, "Everybody's Golf: Hot Shots announced for PS5, Switch, and PC", Gematsu, 27 March 2025 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Everybody's Golf" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Hot Shots Golf 3 tees up a hole in one on PlayStation 2", Sony Computer Entertainment, 12 March 2002 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Everybody's Golf" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: McWhertor, "Simple 2000: The Japanese Software Chart", kotaku.com, 2 August 2007 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Everybody's Golf" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The new Hot Shots Golf is dropping the Hot Shots name", Polygon, 20 April 2017; "Hot shots take note, Everybody's Golf has been announced again", 21 April 2017 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "The new Hot Shots Golf is dropping the Hot Shots name", Polygon, 20 April 2017. facts only, no text reused. polygon.com
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- Wikipedia: Everybody's Golf (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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