NES Open Tournament Golf
| NES Open Tournament Golf | |
|---|---|
North American box art | |
| Developers | Nintendo R&D2 HAL Laboratory |
| Publisher | Nintendo |
| Director | Kenji Miki |
| Producer | Masayuki Uemura |
| Programmers | Satoru Iwata Kyosuke Shirota Kenichi Nakajima |
| Artists | Eiji Aonuma Mikio Mishima |
| Composers | Akito Nakatsuka Yumiko Kanki (FDS) Shinobu Amayake (Mario Open Golf) |
| Series | Mario Golf |
| Platforms | Nintendo Entertainment System, arcade |
| Release | NES PlayChoice-10
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| Genre | Sports (golf) |
| Modes | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Arcade system | PlayChoice-10 |
NES Open Tournament Golf, known in Japan as Mario Open Golf, is a 1991 sports video game developed by HAL Laboratory and Nintendo R&D2 and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the fourth golf game to feature Mario as a player character, and the first installment of the Mario Golf series. Players control either Mario or Luigi as they play rounds of golf on international courses.
The game incorporates various elements of its gameplay from its predecessors Family Computer Golf: Japan Course and Family Computer Golf: U.S. Course, which were exclusively released in Japan for the Famicom Disk System in 1987. Players take their shots from a third-person perspective, while putting is done from a top-down viewpoint.
NES Open Tournament Golf received overall positive reception.