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Overview
Forget buying expensive golf gear--Mario brings the game to you. Mario Golf features four complete 18-hole courses, 11 golfers, and precise play control. Create your own golfer and build up his or her experience and skill levels by competing in various tournaments and head-to-head matches. The more you play, the stronger and more accurate your golfer becomes. There are many different modes of play in Mario Golf, including a wide variety of minigames designed to challenge even the most level-headed swingers.
Trivia & Facts
Nintendo originally started development on a golf game for the Nintendo 64 tentatively titled Golf.
Some time later, they recruited Camelot Software Planning to create a role-playing game, but Camelot wanted to make a simpler game to get accustomed to the Nintendo 64 hardware first.
Nintendo was impressed with Camelot's prototype that they canceled their other golf game and assigned Camelot to develop Mario Golf 64.
This new golf game was announced in the February 1999 issue of The 64Dream.
Reviews of the GBC version aggregated slightly stronger than those of the Nintendo 64 version.
In Japan, Famitsu gave both versions a score of 30/40.