Collection essentials #527: Mario Golf Advance Tour (GBA)
I previously covered Mario Golf on the Nintendo 64, made by Camelot. What I DIDN’T cover was Mario Golf for the Game Boy Color, which was somewhat of a “sister title” to the N64 Mario Golf, a rather different game where you could train and build up your own characters and transfer them to the Nintendo 64 title. That GBC Mario Golf is probably quite good for what it is, and I do own a copy, but honestly I’ve never played it for more than just a few minutes or so, leading to its lack of presence on this list (at least for now). In the next console generation, Camelot wanted to make a “brother-sister” pair of Mario Golf games in much the same style. And so, a Mario Golf game was made for the GameCube (stayed tuned for that), and this here is its Game Boy partner title. You’ll find pretty quickly that this game is a little weird. If you’ve played a console Mario sports title, you’ve likely developed a certain set of expectations for what such a game is like, and this game will not match th...