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STROKE & DISTANCE: TOO HARSH?

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Adrian Logue

Golf Australia Top-100 judge and contributing writer

His orders were clear: capture photographic evidence of POWs. Do NOT engage the enemy and do NOT attempt a rescue. At least that was the flimsy premise of 1985’s smash hit Commodore 64 video game Rambo: First Blood Part 2.

But what his superiors couldn’t have known is that John Rambo was a terrible photographer and that those orders would make for a particularly boring game so like any problematically jingoistic 80s hero, he took matters

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