Inevitable broken glass would have been the result so tennis balls were a necessity. I would have loved to have used golf balls there. The screensaver depicts a man, Johnny Castaway, stranded on a very small island with a single palm tree, it follows a story which is slowly revealed through time. Tiring of the endless search for golf balls, the routine later became hitting tennis balls on the lawn around house on a home-made course. Johnny Castaway is a screensaver released in 1992 by Sierra On-Line/Dynamix, and marketed under the Screen Antics brand as 'the world's first story-telling screen saver'. Water hazards included dams, a swamp and a creek. Our district had mainly tigers, copperheads and browns.

Then there was always the chance of golf hazards such as snakes in the summer months. My golf buggy was a Kawasaki dirt-bike which sped up the process of getting to the vicinity of the lost balls, but in no way hastened the actual seek and find process. As a teenager, I used to hit golf balls around the farm where they would instantly become lost in long grass or deep imprints produced by cow hooves during the wetter months. This sole tree has been sacrificed, not to burn as a distress signal for passing would-be rescuers to spot, but to serve as makeshift golfing equipment. Here there is only one palm tree and two (visible) coconuts. Johnny is a castaway on a small desert island he keeps himself entertained with numerous hobbies including sleeping reading fishing lighting a fire and building a raft.In the Johnny Castaway Screensaver many of these activities have variations: when fishing Johnny often catches a fish an octopus and a boot occasionally he's carried out to sea by a shark. On GilliganвЂ™s Island, there was an abundant supply of palm trees and coconuts. Perhaps that combined with the Johnny Castaway screensaver of many years ago, though I donвЂ™t recall seeing Johnny play golf. IвЂ™m wondering if itвЂ™s latent memories of Jim Bacchus playing golf on GilliganвЂ™s Island that is the influence for this cartoon.

A bedraggled castaway happily plays golf instead of attempting to attract the attention of a passing boat and plane.

Man stranded on island screensaver