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NES Open Tournament Golf for Nintendo NES
NES Open Tournament Golf for Nintendo NES lets you build a golfing career with Mario on courses in the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom. You try to finish each hole in as few strokes as possible. Stroke Play adds up all the strokes in a round, while Match Play determines who wins the most individual holes. In tournaments you compete for prize money and a higher rank against computer-controlled golfers of different abilities.
Before each shot, you view the course from above and set the club, direction, swing speed and ball spin. Account for the wind and where the ball lies: sand and long grass reduce your range. Mario then appears behind the ball. Three presses of the A Button determine the start of the swing, its power and the moment of impact. On the green you read the marked direction of the grass and judge the strength of your putt.
You can play alone or compete with two players taking turns; for that you need two standard controllers. The second player controls Luigi. From the clubhouse you practise individual holes and view information about your performances. The original cartridge has battery-backed saving for game data and progress. Start lets you interrupt and save a round in progress to continue later; there are no circuit passwords to copy down here.
Region and language
Our Nintendo NES games are PAL editions, unless stated otherwise. This product contains a loose cartridge for the European market. A box is only included if explicitly stated in the product details. We note any different region in the product details. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
With NES Open Tournament Golf for Nintendo NES, you receive a loose cartridge. A box and manual are not included unless we explicitly state otherwise in the product details. This is the standard way we supply this copy.
The history of NES Open Tournament Golf
Nintendo released NES Open Tournament Golf in the early nineties, with the Japanese version Mario Open Golf arriving in 1991. The game grew out of a longer collaboration between Nintendo and HAL Laboratory on golf games. Satoru Iwata had previously worked on Golf and the Japanese Golf Japan Course and Golf US Course for the Famicom Disk System. That experience with course layouts and shot controls carried over into the golf game starring Mario and Luigi.
Eiji Aonuma worked on the characters. In an interview he explained that he did graphical work at the start of his Nintendo career and drew the characters for Mario Open Golf. He later directed adventure games, including Marvelous and subsequently Zelda games. The golfers therefore belong to his early work drawing small pixel characters, long before he became primarily associated with Link's world. Their colourful sportswear immediately distinguishes Mario and Luigi on the course.
The Western edition emphasises three international courses and a tournament career with prize money. The course overview and separate shot screen distinguish planning from execution, while the clubhouse brings together statistics and practice options. In 1999 Iwata said that the creators of Mario Golf for Nintendo 64 appreciated NES Open Tournament Golf and drew ideas from it. This NES game thus remained a link between Nintendo's early golf games and the later Mario sports series.
Similar games for Nintendo NES
Golf for Nintendo NES, like NES Open Tournament Golf, uses a course overview, club selection and three presses for a full shot. You must also account for wind and the moment of impact. The older game focuses on one eighteen-hole course. NES Open adds three international courses, a clubhouse and a career with prize money, making individual shots part of a longer recorded series of performances.
Tennis on Nintendo NES also centres on the moment of impact and placing a ball beyond the opponent's reach. On the tennis court you must keep moving and react immediately to a return. NES Open Tournament Golf gives you time to consider direction, club and wind before you hit. In golf the players take turns, whereas Tennis emphasises the rhythm of a rally and covering the net.
Ice Hockey for Nintendo NES also lets you shape a sporting match through a combination of preparation and execution. You choose body types for your team, with differences in speed and shooting power. NES Open instead lets you choose equipment and ball spin for each shot. On the ice opponents are constantly moving and can directly obstruct each other; on the golf course your own handling of wind, terrain and timing largely determines the result.
Excitebike on Nintendo NES shares careful control of power and learning a course with NES Open Tournament Golf. The motorcyclist uses turbo, watches the engine temperature and adjusts the landing during jumps. Mario chooses a club and then performs one individual shot. Excitebike revolves around a continuous timed run with obstacles, whereas golf gives you room to plan your next step again after every ball flight.
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! for Nintendo NES, like NES Open, offers a sporting career with increasingly strong opponents. Timing determines in both games whether a carefully chosen action succeeds. However, Little Mac must spot an opening during the fight and strike immediately; the golfer can study the full course and wind beforehand. Punch-Out!! is for one player and uses circuit passwords, whereas NES Open lets two players take turns golfing and saves game data.
