School me on Golden Tee Classic Series...

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I just picked up a Golden Tee '99 and am curious about upgrades. Is it just rom swaps? Is there a "complete" kit like the Fore! series has? Or should I leave it as a '99?
 
From what I have seen Classic Golden Tee stuff all runs on the same boardset (along with Shuffleshot and World Class Bowling). However they aren't just rom swaps there are security chips of some sort too (smaller chips with the game name on them)

As far as I have seen you can switch all the socketed chips from one board to another to change the game. I have only done it to convert a World Class Bowling board to shuffleshot.

No complete kit. The final version was called Classic. Mostly each version just has different courses.
 
Well here's what I got. $100 and working except the monitor needs a cap kit. I have a spare chassis in it now. Also replaced the CMOS battery and will be putting a marquee on this former Gauntlet somehow.

I guess the price tag covers my greens fees for the 3 courses it has :D
 

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Anyone know how to backspin in this game? I know it lacks a button but I've heard there's a way to do it with the trackball. Con't find anymore info on it.

Here's a gameplay video...
 
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I would play this for a while and decide if this kind of game is for you, and get a newer cabinet with a bunch of courses. Upgrading the set up you have is pretty limited compared to the newer versions of GT which are not all that expensive to buy complete in the cabinet. They made a ton of these games. I like the white cabinet that looks like a golf ball with the LED banner on top and the blue control panel. Usually operators make good money on location with the very recent versions of these and the older ones gets sold off for pretty cheap if you look hard enough.

I bet you could really find a good one for a few hundred.
 
Looks like a Gauntlet cabinet there.

I have some Golden Tee marquees here if you want to put a marquee on it.

2 auctions ago there were a LOT of the GT Fore series machines and they went pretty cheap.
 
Wish I had known, I'll acually be in Saint Louis next weekend, but I'm already getting one in the mail from TNT. Dont know if I'll be able to backlight it or if I want to. I'm just hoping the logo will fit in the 22" x 4" space I have to mount it.

I like the Fore! series but dont want to deal with the huge cabinet right now. I can barely cram this one in. I have thought about putting some white on the upper half of this one to make it mimic a Fore! series game. Perhaps I can convert this to a Fore! if I ever get ambitious enough.
 
I know Lanky Kong bought his Fore a while back just to mame. So his kit might come up soon, and it is local.
 
No backspin on the classic series. Still, that games fun as hell. It'll probably be one of the most played in your gameroom.

Google is telling me differently, but I can't get a clear understanding of how exactly it's achieved...

Backspin was originally introduced in 1995 on Golden Tee 3D Golf without a button! Players had to use trackball speed to apply this feature where the harder a shot was hit, the more significant the backspin was.

Here's what Wikipedia has...

...Instead of a simple button, earlier versions obtained backspin through a complicated understanding of wind, green, backswing, and the speed in which the trackball was struck.

I can confirm the game does feature backspin because I've done it myself many times, but every time has just been dumb luck. There's got to be more to it than just slamming the trackball hard. I'm hoping someone has a better understanding of this than I do.
 
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