Golf
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Game Title:Golf
System:Nintendo NES
Players:1-2 Players
Genre:Sports
Developer(s):Nintendo
Release Date(s):1984 - JAP
1985 - US 1986 - EU |
Golf is a sports-simulation video game released in 1984 exclusively for the NES.
The golfer which you take control of is a chubby mustached man who somewhat resembles our little plumber friend Mario. The player one character wears a white shirt with blue trousers and uses a white ball, while the player two character wears a red shirt with black trousers and uses a red ball. Just so there's no confusion! 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.
The game features a full eighteen holes but nothing more. There are no other greens, no additional courses, and no driving range or anything else!. There isn’t any music, either. In fact, the only sound you're likely to notice is the whack of the ball off the head of the club, and a somewhat cartoon-like sound effect as the ball rises and falls while sailing through the air. If the ball goes out of bounds you’ll hear a sound in the form of a buzzer that notifies you of your error, but that’s the end of it. When you are playing the game alone, you get a decent golf experience (though it may be slightly unsatisfying by the standards almost immediately set by subsequent video golf titles). Fortunately, Golf offers a couple of multi-player modes, so you can play against a friend, swinging for par is one thing, but the thrill of competition, however basic, makes many sports titles more enjoyable, and this is one of them. And the Verdict is...
This game does exactly what it says on the tin! It's golf, but it’s certainly primitive and limited. As of course all sports games were in this era, so keeping that in mind, for the first golf game to be released on this awesome console, it's not bad, it's not great, but it's not bad! It's very basic but all the right ingredients are there, also this served as a building block for better golf games to come, most modern golf games produced today still use certain features from Golf such as the power/accuracy bar for swinging the club and taking your shot. So no matter how basic and primitive this game is, it still deserves its place in 8-Bit gaming history. |