Golf
You play a golf course stroke by stroke: choosing a club, aiming with the wind and the terrain in mind and setting the power of the shot, often with a meter you stop at just the right moment. You win by sinking the ball in each hole in as few strokes as possible.
Also known as: golf video game, golf game, golf sim
This is a basic entry: it has the definition and the classification. Full entries add history, games and a demo.
History
- 1978Origin
Wikipedia's list of golf video games starts with Magnavox's Computer Golf! (1978) for the Odyssey².
List of golf video games (Wikipedia) - 1984Golf
Nintendo and HAL Laboratory's Golf comes out for the Famicom and becomes the console's best-selling sports game.
Golf (1984 video game) (Wikipedia) - 1997Everybody's Golf
Camelot's Everybody's Golf (Hot Shots Golf) starts a series of light-hearted golf on the PlayStation; Camelot would later make Mario Golf for Nintendo.
Everybody's Golf (1997 video game) (Wikipedia)
Reference games
1984
Golf
Nintendo's golf game for the Famicom (NES in 1985 in North America). It was the console's best-selling sports game and was programmed by Satoru Iwata, later Nintendo's president.
1997
Everybody's Golf
Light-hearted golf, called Hot Shots Golf in North America and Minna no Golf in Japan. It is the first in its series and the only one made by Camelot, which went on to develop Mario Golf.