Golf (1984 video game)

Golf
Golf
	North American NES box art
Developers	Nintendo R&D2; HAL Laboratory
Publisher	Nintendo
Director	Kenji Miki
Producer	Masayuki Uemura
Designers	Kenji Miki; Shigeru Miyamoto
Programmer	Satoru Iwata
Composer	Koji Kondo
Platforms	NES, arcade, PC-88, Sharp X1, PC-8001mkIISR, PC-98, Famicom Disk System, Game Boy, Nintendo e-Reader
Release	May 1, 1984 NES JP: May 1, 1984; NA: October 18, 1985; EU: November 15, 1986; Arcade (VS. System) JP: July 26, 1984; NA: October 1984; EU: 1985; Arcade (Ladies Golf) NA: December 14, 1984; Famicom Disk System JP: February 21, 1986; Game Boy JP: November 28, 1989; NA: February 1990; EU: 1990; e-Reader NA: April 21, 2003; ;
Genre	Sports (golf)
Modes	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 became the best-selling sports game for the NES/Famicom, and was re-released for different Nintendo consoles over several years. It was hidden in the Nintendo Switch firmware as an Easter egg as a tribute to the game's programmer, the late Satoru Iwata.