Rahul Sharma (Editor)

Golf (1984 video game)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Producer(s)
  
Masayuki Uemura

Composer(s)
  
Koji Kondo

Genre
  
Sports game

Publisher
  
Nintendo

Programmer(s)
  
Satoru Iwata

Initial release date
  
1 May 1984

Designer
  
Shigeru Miyamoto

Golf (1984 video game) httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenthumb9

Mode(s)
  
Single-player, multiplayer

Platforms
  
Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 3DS

Developers
  
Nintendo, Intelligent Systems

Similar
  
Shigeru Miyamoto games, Golf games, Other games

Golf (ゴルフ, Gorufu) is a sports-simulation video game developed and released by Nintendo in 1984 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.

Contents

Record

The world record is held by Greg Reynolds with a score of -23.

Gameplay

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. The power bar method has been used in most golf games since.

Ports

  • When Koji Kondo joined Nintendo, he was first involved in the arcade version of Golf.
  • Hudson Soft released a port of the game for the Japan-only PC-88 in 1985.
  • Ported to the Famicom Disk System in 1986 (Japan only).
  • In the Game Boy version, unlike the NES version, there is some background music and two countries to choose from: Japan and U.S. Also, the style of the player characters are chibi. All courses are different compared to the ones in the NES version. This version has also been released for the Virtual Console on the Nintendo 3DS system.
  • Available for the Classic NES e-Reader series on Game Boy Advance.
  • Available as a fully playable collectible in Animal Crossing.
  • The nine holes of the golf game in Wii Sports are 3-dimensional versions of the holes in Golf. This is also true of the "Classic" courses for the golf and Frisbee golf games in Wii Sports Resort.

    • Reception

    Golf received mixed to positive reviews and is now considered to be one of the most famous games for the NES. It was given a mixed review by ScrewAttack.

    References

    Golf (1984 video game) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA