This article has a talk page!Sente Mini Golf is what it says on the title... golf. Not much else to say about it, other than the fact it has an audience that sounds like a car engine when rejoicing.
Revisional Differences#
Title Screen#
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Both old sets (the versions labeled with a date in MAME) show the year of the game's release. The new set (the version labeled "set 1" in MAME) conspicuously doesn't.
Missing Kids#
In the old sets, during the attract mode a screen depicting pictures and information of two missing kids is shown.
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The kids are Tahj Allen Merriman and Steven Phillip Curtis (both boys) in the older set, and Malinda Marie Smith and April Rose Yates (both girls) in the old set. The old set also has the logo for the (now-defunct) "V.O.C.A.L." Hide and Seek Foundation.
A feature present only in the old set is that you can mark the kids as located. This feature was added just in case someone managed to find one of these girls and reported it to the given phone number.
The new set includes the same screen as the old set, but this time it can be toggleable. This suggests it may be a leftover from the old set, since the new set is not supposed to include any missing children notices.
According to a forum post, it's possible Dennis Koble, the game's programmer, was requested by the FBI to add the screen. It should be noted that the screen also appears in another Sente game called Stompin, though with different children.
In regards to the children themselves, only Tahj has been confirmed found, with this July 1985 article explaining that he had been taken out of county jurisdiction by his mother during a custody battle.