Golf

Description

Golf for the Game Boy is related to Nintendo’s earlier Golf entries on the Famicom and NES Golf, but it expands the concept with 36 holes split across two courses: Japan and U.S.A.

The gameplay uses the familiar golf-game power meter style: choose direction, select a club, time the shot strength, and deal with hazards such as rough, sand traps, trees, water, wind, and green slope. Compared with the original, the Game Boy release adds more course variety and portable-friendly play, with Nintendo presenting it as a game that could be enjoyed easily anywhere, even by players who were not deeply familiar with golf rules. The title supports multiplayer with head-to-head play using two Game Boys, two cartridges, and a Game Link Cable.

Mario is associated with the game in a somewhat loose early-Nintendo way: the Western Game Boy cover art depicts Mario, while the Japanese cover used generic characters, and the in-game golfer is often described as Mario or a Mario-like character depending on the source.