Golf (1984 video game)
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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 |
| Programmer(s) | Satoru Iwata |
| 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, PlayChoice-10 |
Golf is a golf video game developed by Nintendo and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was originally released for the Famicom in Japan in 1984, with a port to the Nintendo VS. System as VS. Golf or Stroke and Match Golf, released in arcades internationally, followed by another arcade version called VS. Ladies Golf. 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.