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'''''Golf''''' is a [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] game that is based on the {{wp|Golf|sport of the same name}}. It was first released for the [[Famicom]] in [[1984]] and would later be released overseas as a [[launch title]] for the Nintendo Entertainment System, in [[1985]] in North America and [[1986]] in Europe and Australia.
 
''Golf'' is the second video game that [[Satoru Iwata]] programmed for Nintendo while working at [[HAL Laboratory]], after ''[[Pinball (video game)|Pinball]]''.<ref name=shmup>[http://shmuplations.com/iwata/ Satoru Iwata – 1999 Developer Interview originally featured in Used Games magazine, translated by shmuplations.com]</ref> A copy of the original game was embedded in [[Nintendo Switch]] firmware. Activating it required the internal system clock to be set to July 11 - Satoru Iwata's {{wp|death anniversary}} - and performing his iconic "{{wp|List of Nintendo Direct presentations|directly to you}}" hand gesture with both Joy-Con controllers on the HOME menu. If successful, a voice clip of Iwata from a Japanese 2012 presentation would confirm the input, and an emulation of ''Golf'' with added motion control support would promptly boot up. This version of ''Golf'' was overwritten as of the [[Nintendo Switch updates|4.0.0 update]], making it unplayable.<ref>"[https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/27/16822340/nintendo-switch-golf-game-hidden-removed Switch’s hidden Iwata tribute removed in latest update]". Polygon. Published December 27, 2017.</ref>
 
==Gameplay==
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*1986 - The game was re-released for the [[Famicom Disk System]], also as a launch title.
*1989 - Re-released for the [[Game Boy]], also with the title ''[[Golf (Game Boy)|Golf]]''.
*2001 - ''Golf'' is one of the playable Nintendo Entertainment System games in the [[Nintendo 64]] game, ''[[Doubutsu no Mori]]'' and its [[Nintendo GameCube]] port, ''[[Animal Crossing (video game)|Animal Crossing]]''.
*2003 - Re-released for the [[Game Boy Advance]]'s [[e-Reader]] peripheral as ''[[Golf-e]]''.
*2019 - The [[Nintendo Playchoice-10]] version was later included onto the [[Arcade Archives]].
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==Trivia==
*Nintendo planned to release an 18-hole golfing game as a launch title for the [[Family Computer]], but software companies declined the project and believed that it could not be done with such limited memory at the time. [[Satoru Iwata]], who was a [[HAL Laboratory]] employee at the time, was eager to prove this technical achievement and program the game himself, which required him to create a custom data compression routine.<ref name=shmup/>
*The golfer has been identified as [[Mario]] in supplemental material, albeit not wearing his traditional shirt and overalls.<ref>''[[mariowiki:Mario Mania|Mario Mania]]'', page 9.</ref> However, the game ''[[Captain Rainbow]]'' would instead identify the golfer as Ossan, which is the internal name that Mario had during the development of ''[[Donkey Kong (video game)|Donkey Kong]]''.<ref>http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wii/mario25th/1/3</ref>
*Similar to ''[[Ice Climber]]'', the red-colored character on the North American box art is actually the second player.
 
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