Golf ROM

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Golf is a golf-based sports simulation video game developed and released by Nintendo in 1984 for the Famicom in Japan. Later the same year, it was ported 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. It was ported to Game Boy in 1989. The main player wears a white shirt and shoes with blue pants and uses a white ball, while the second player wears a red shirt and shoes with black pants and uses a red ball. The player selects either single stroke play or the two-player selections of doubles stroke play or match play.

The player is then placed at the tee of the first of 18 holes. In 1991, Nintendo identified the golfer as Mario in a gameplay guide book. Nintendo’s Wii game Captain Rainbow identifies the golfer as Ossan, which happens to be one of the generic hero names during the development of Donkey Kong. The Game Boy conversion would feature Mario on the Western cover art, but not the Japanese version.