Power Hall: After Hours event at the Science and Industry Museum

Visiting the Power Hall: After Hours event at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester.

We recently attended the Power Hall: After Hours event at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester - and I spent a lot of the evening in the Power Up exhibit playing a lot of old videogames on original hardware.

We first visited the Power Up exhibition at the Science and Industry Museum back in 2019 - where I got to play a Philips CD-I for the very first time. We didn't know it'd reopened until we heard about the Power Hall: After Hours event.

Find out more.

Check out the Science and Industry Museum website for more information.

Emirates Inflight Entertainment - Mini Golf Country Club Videogame

A look at the Mini Golf Country Club videogame on the Emirates inflight entertainment system.

My brother Christopher recently flew from Dubai to Thailand with Emirates and noticed that one of the games on the inflight entertainment system was a mini golf game!

It's the first time that any of us on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour has experienced a game of minigolf while mid-air!

A new Putting Pencil

One of the nicest things about visiting a new minigolf course is seeing what scorecards and branded pencils they have. Not all courses have them and at present some courses have stopped giving them out. Other courses use apps for players to use as scorecards while others use a mix of the old-school approach mixed with technology and offer both scoring options.

On our travels to 948 miniature golf courses we've collected quite a few putting pencils.

Earlier this week I blogged about the fact you can now play Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge from The Simpsons! It's available as an online game as well as a download.

Do you think you can reach the Parking Lot with a Putter?

I bought the downloadable version and as a nice bonus you receive a scoring pencil.

It's something different to add to my collection of minigolf ephemera.

Play Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge from The Simpsons

You can now play Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge from The Simpsons!

I know which club I'm choosing

I love The Simpsons and I love Putting so I was very very very happy to hear that Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge from the show has been made into a playable game!

Many thanks to my friend and minigolf rival Martyn Williams from the Welsh Minigolf Club for sending the link to me.

Play Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge online

The playable version of the game was made by Aaron Demeter. Follow him on Twitter too.

It's certainly cheered me up on this Minigolf Monday and is a bright spot in an otherwise incredibly gloomy year.

Happy Putting.

Halloween in the USA - Part II

A look at some excellent Halloween decorations from the USA.

Emily was recently in the US and while there spotted some brilliant Halloween decorations.

Haunted PCs at Target in New Jersey

How great is this Haunted Computer!

Unfortunately there wasn't enough room in her luggage to fit a desktop PC in.

Only 35 bucks!

The PC comes with its own built-in virus

There are now only 15 days to Halloween!

Check out my blog post about Halloween-themed minigolf courses and events to see what's happening.

Our friends at A Couple of Putts have also created the hashtag #Puttober to share all things Halloweeney at miniature golf courses.

Happy National Video Game Day!

Happy National Video Game Day 2017.

We were recently in Tamworth - to play the new Castle Adventure Golf course at Namco Funscape - and noticed this giant piece of video game graffiti on a legal graffiti wall on an underpass!

Play Putter Fingers Micro Golf and Win a Putt Returner!

There's an online competition running via the Putter Fingers website and their Facebook page where you can win one of five Putt Returners by playing the Putter Fingers Mini Golf Game.

My highest score so far is 2,758, with the top score at 2,900!

The competition is running throughout November 2011 and you can play the game as many times as you like!

Wonderputt - A New Minigolf Computer Game...

...and the best one I've played to date.

As a follower of all things Minigolf-related I follow the Arts & Animation Studio Damp Gnat on twitter - the reason, they developed a Minigolf Computer Game called Adverputt a while back.

According to the Damp Gnat website their "current focus is on developing premium online games with a strong emphasis on design, quality and innovation." and with their new Miniature Golf game they certainly have delivered on that focus.

Wonderputt is played out on a changing landscape and features a variety of holes and obstacles that stand in your way to reaching the final Rocketship 18th-hole.

I really liked the way the ball reacted and the controls were very easy to pick up. Some of the holes were quite tricky too, but were well thought out and there are some great hole-in-one opportunities available.

The game is the best Minigolf/Crazy Golf computer game I have played to date and definitely has replay value.

By the way, my first score was 67,516 points and an impressive (even if I do say so myself) 13-under par, in a game that lasted 8 minutes and 4 seconds. I love the fact it gives you a bunch of stats at the end of the game.

Play Wonderputt

Play Adverputt