Picture Perfect Golf
Picture Perfect Golf is a 1994 video game from Empire Interactive. It is one of three games developed by Lyriq International. The other two being Lyriq Crosswords and Discovering Endangered Wildlife.
Picture Perfect Golf
- Date
- 1994
- Genre
- golf video game
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Picture Perfect Golf is a 1994 video game from Empire Interactive. It is one of three games developed by Lyriq International. The other two being Lyriq Crosswords and Discovering Endangered Wildlife.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
No house-authored Note is published until its assertions and sources pass the VALÉORINE evidence contract. The documentary article remains available in full while that enrichment is being consolidated.
Documentary enrichment in progress · no unsupported statement published
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Picture Perfect Golf. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
Documentary evidence
Evidence Panel
not yet certified
- Identity
- resolved
- Independent source families
- 0
- Admitted assertions
- 0
- Open conflicts
- 0
Authority files
wikidata · Q116609222 · wikipedia · Picture Perfect Golf
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Title — Picture Perfect Golf • Developer — Lyriq International • Publisher — Empire Interactive • Released — October 1994 • Genre — Golf • Platforms — Windows
Gameplay
Gameplay
Picture Perfect Golf offers photorealistic, first-person golfing, featuring actual photography of courses like Harbor Town Golf Links in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Players interact using either a standard mouse or an optional infrared club—an innovation adapted from Japanese company GolfTek—that simulates a real-life swing. The infrared interface, sold separately, allows players to engage with the game using actual golf motions.
Development
Development
The game was developed by Lyriq International, a company founded in 1991 in Cheshire. It was showcased at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Reception
Bill Goodykoontz from Arizona Republic said in his review that "The Commentary is adequate, however, the swing mechanism is tough to master" in the end concluding "A fun, if challenging, game, and certainly different" Picture Perfect Golf generated almost $300,000 in revenue. Picture Perfect Golf was named one of the top 100 CD-ROMs by PC Magazine.
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Partially resolvedreference work
Partially resolved
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 20 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Collectables
20,755 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- PicopictWork
- Picross 3DWork
- Picross DSWork
- Pictonico!Work
- PidkovaTerminology
- Piëch AutomotiveOrganisation
- PiedmontOrganisation
- PieperOrganisation
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a copy of Picture Perfect Golf?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.