Golf (1984 video game)
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Golf[lower-alpha 1] 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,[5] 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.
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Developer(s) | Nintendo R&D2 HAL Laboratory |
Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
Director(s) | Kenji Miki |
Producer(s) | Masayuki Uemura |
Designer(s) | Kenji Miki Shigeru Miyamoto[1] |
Programmer(s) | Satoru Iwata[2] |
Composer(s) | Koji Kondo |
Series | Mario Golf |
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Release | Famicom/NES Arcade (VS. System) |
Genre(s) | Sports |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Arcade system | Nintendo VS. System |
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.