Golf (1984 video game)

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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
Series	Mario Golf
Platform(s)	Famicom/NES Arcade Other platforms PC-88 Sharp X1 PC-8001mkIISR Hitachi B16 PC-98 Famicom Disk System Game Boy
Release	Famicom/NES JP: May 1, 1984 NA: October 18, 1985 EU: November 15, 1986 Arcade (VS. System) JP: July 26, 1984[2] NA: October 1984[1] EU: 1985[3] Other versions Arcade (Ladies Golf) NA: December 14, 1984[4] 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 system	Nintendo VS. System, PlayChoice-10

Golf^[a] 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,^[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.^[8]

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