I seem to remember playing Rounders in secondary school, but I can't say I particularly liked the game or even remember the rules.

As to rugby, all I know abou that is that every wednesday night, every bar around Durham is full of very large, very roudy, very drunk people (ladies as well), who have iether just won or lost one of the universities numerous Rugby games.

Reguarding golf though, my dad's a fairly keen golfer (I trip over his clubs regularly! ;D), so I did know something about the game before I started, I'm also looking forward to telling him that I got ten strokes under par at the Metro country club golf course!

wow, I might have to check that out.

I played the old golf game a few years ago and found it to be way too easy.  I liked how it used eloquence, but I didn't like how if you wanted to speed up the speach you had to make the pitch go higher too.  I would love it if the games could use your screen reader, that way you could use whatever synthesizer you like, and not have to mess with that crappy Microsoft SAPI.

As for the football and baseball games, I tried them but didn't keep them.  Baseball you were more involved in it, so it was the better of the two.  You could select pitches and do batting, but that was pretty much it.  The commercials were clever, though.  I was pretty disappointed with the football game because all you could do was select the play you wanted to do.  Once the ball was in play, you just had to listen to the speech tell you what happened.  I want to have more control over what goes on when the ball is actualy in play.  Maybe I've been spoiled by Madden though...

Yes I've seen that eppisode where Homer goes to the country club...my brother has that on DVD.  I love when Mr. Burns tells Homer to use an open faced club...the sand wedge, and Homer goes "MMM, open face club sandwitch."

As I've said before, I really don't mind synth voices like Sapi reading out status info, such as the yards of shots and what's around you in the gold game. It does sort of annoy me in the game of life, but hay! nobody (at least in this country), has ever produced a braille version of the Life game, and it's infinitely easier to have monopoly on my comp than try and store a whacking great braille board, the only one of Jim Kitchin's games that the speech really gets on my whick is the star mule game, sinse in that the Sapi is pretending to be real human spaceship crew members.

Oh and Yeah, Ten strokes! I was having a pretty lucky run(I think I got two double eagles!). I stil haven't managed a hole in one though.

When you create a golf course, does it get saved as a file? if so, maybe Richard would be kind enough to host some user created courses on Audiogames.net for people to download.

I think on down hill, at hole four i managed to hit in the ball with just one hit, dunno how it happened. But it said oh my god, lol.
Seems his games will be better and better, with every move.

Well, the hungarian monopoly version is just like the american one.
About more players, i wrote to jim about it, and he replied, he probably won't implement it, because he tries to keep his games as simple as possible.
Well, nothing to do about it.
Better than nothing, sure is, but it is quite anoying, that you can buy the first two assets from the computer for the same price, and he replies, a good deal, lol.
Also all of the four realways, if you can buy it, just costs the orig. price, 200 dollars i think.
These are the things, which it is easy to bankrupt the computer.