Golf (Nintendo)

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Golf
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Developer(s) Nintendo
Publisher(s) Nintendo
Platform(s) NES, PC-88, Game Boy, Famicom Disk System, e-Reader
Release date NES version
JPN May 1, 1984
NA October 18, 1985
EU November 15, 1986
FDS version
JPN February 21, 1986
Game Boy
JPN November 28, 1989
USA March, 1990
EUR 1990
Genre(s) Sports game
Mode(s) Single player, multiplayer
Media 192-kilobit cartridge
Input methods NES controller

Golf is a sports-simulation video game released in 1985 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was originally released in Japan in 1984 for the NES/Famicom. A tall guy who may or may not be Mario is the main character.

The color scheme for the player charaters is similar to Hector and Vector, the two scientists from Gyromite and Stack Up, the two R.O.B. games for the NES. The player one character wears a white shirt and shoes with blue pants and uses a white ball, while the player two character wears a red shirt and shoes with black pants and uses a red ball.

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The user must first decide whether to play single stroke play or the two player selections of doubles stroke play or match play. The user is then placed at the tee of the first hole of eighteen.

It was the first golf game to feature a power/accuracy bar for swinging the club.[citation needed] The power bar method has been used in most golf games since.

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[edit] Allusions

Golf appeared in WarioWare: Twisted! as one of 9-Volt's microgames.

Nine of the eighteen holes from the game have been recreated in 3D in the Wii Sports Golf game.[1]

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