Golf (1984 video game)

Golf
North American NES box art
Developer(s)Nintendo R&D2
HAL Laboratory
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)Kenji Miki
Producer(s)Masayuki Uemura
Designer(s)Kenji Miki
Shigeru Miyamoto[5]
Programmer(s)Satoru Iwata[6]
Composer(s)Koji Kondo
SeriesMario Golf
Platform(s)
ReleaseFamicom/NES
  • JP: May 1, 1984
  • NA: October 18, 1985
  • EU: November 15, 1986
Arcade (VS. System)
Other versions
  • Arcade (Ladies Golf)
  • Famicom Disk System
    • JP: February 21, 1986
  • Game Boy
    • JP: November 28, 1989
    • NA: February 1990
    • EU: 1990
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade systemNintendo VS. System

Golf[a] is a golf-based sports simulation video game developed and released by Nintendo in 1984 for the Famicom in Japan. Later the same year, it was ported to the Nintendo VS. System as VS. Golf or Stroke and Match Golf, released in arcades internationally,[3] followed by another arcade version called VS. Ladies Golf.[7] The original was re-released for the NES in North America in 1985, and for the Famicom Disk System in 1986 in Japan.

Golf was the best-selling sports game on the NES/Famicom, and was re-released across many years for different Nintendo consoles. It was hidden in the Nintendo Switch firmware as an Easter egg as a tribute to the game's programmer, the late Satoru Iwata.

  1. ^ "The Vs. Challenge". RePlay. Vol. 11, no. 3. December 1985. p. 5.
  2. ^ "Flyer Fever - Golf / Pinball (Japan)". Archived from the original on July 20, 2018. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
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  4. ^ "VS. golf (ladies version) (Registration Number PA0000250301)". United States Copyright Office. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  5. ^ Kohler, Chris. "Miyamoto Spills Donkey Kong's Darkest Secrets, 35 Years Later". Wired. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  6. ^ "Iwata Asks: Wii Sports: Games That Even the People Watching Can Enjoy". Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  7. ^ "With the VS. System from Nintendo, making money is no sweat". Flyer Fever. February 20, 2021. Retrieved June 19, 2021.


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