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Sound: Koji Kondo - the arcade version of Golf was the first software he worked on after joining Nintendo.
In 1983, the Famicom had only three launch games, and its library would soon total seven, including Golf.
Shigeru Miyamoto said he was "directly in charge of the character design and the game design", and Satoru Iwata said he was the only programmer.
Hudson Soft released a conversion of the game for the Japan-only PC-88 and Sharp X1 in 1985.
Golf was released for the Japan-only Family Computer Disk System on February 21, 1986.
The game is a hidden Easter egg in the pre-4.0 firmware of the Nintendo Switch, in tribute to Satoru Iwata, who was the sole programmer of Golf (as one of his first projects for Nintendo) and later became Nintendo's CEO.
Its system, enjoyable for adults too, found favour with middle-aged and older players and made it a long-seller: about 4,010,000 copies worldwide (as of the end of 2022) and about 2,460,000 in Japan (as of the end of 2022).
It ranks 2 in sales among all the sports games the company later released.
The game sold 2,120,000 copies worldwide (as of the end of 2022).
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the game scored a total of 26 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine,it scored 22.88 out of 30, as shown below.
Sales were numbered at over 4 million copies in total, with the Famicom version alone yielding 2.46 million copies sold in Japan.
Golf became the best-selling sports game for the NES/Famicom, and was re-released for different Nintendo consoles over several years.
Golf was successful during its initial release, with positive reviews from critics and was the tenth best-selling game released on the 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.
Shigeru Miyamoto said he was "directly in charge of the character design and the game design", and Satoru Iwata said he was the only programmer.
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