NES Open Tournament Golf

NES Open Tournament Golf
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Developer(s)	Nintendo Research & Development 2
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Kenji Miki
Producer(s)	Masayuki Uemura
Programmer(s)	Satoru Iwata Kyosuke Shirota Kenichi Nakajima
Artist(s)	Eiji Aonuma Mikio Mishima
Composer(s)	Akito Nakatsuka Shinobu Amayake (Mario Open Golf)
Series	Mario Golf
Platform(s)	NES/Famicom NES/Famicom, Famicom Disk System, PlayChoice-10, Virtual Console (Wii, Nintendo 3DS (Ambassador and Public Version) and Wii U)
Release	September 20, 1991 NES/Famicom JP: September 20, 1991 NA: September 29, 1991 EU: June 18, 1992 Famicom Disk System JP: June 14, 1987 PlayChoice-10 WW: 1991 Virtual Console Wii EU: May 11, 2007 NA: June 18, 2007 JP: July 24, 2007 Nintendo 3DS Ambassador Program WW: August 31, 2011 Full Version NA: July 5, 2012 JP: August 8, 2012 PAL: August 23, 2012 Wii U JP: January 15, 2014 PAL: February 6, 2014 NA: March 6, 2014
Genre(s)	Sports game
Mode(s)	Multiplayer

Review scores
Publication	Score
AllGame
GameSpot	6.0/10

NES Open Tournament Golf, known as Mario Open Golf (マリオオープンゴルフ, Mario Ōpun Gorufu^?) in Japan, is a sports game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991. NES Open Tournament Golf is the second Nintendo published golf-based video game released for the NES, the first game being Golf. In addition to the Famicom version of Golf, there were two other Nintendo published golf-based video games released in Japan. These games were released in disk format on the Family Computer Disk System in 1987. These two games were Family Computer Golf: Japan Course and Family Computer Golf: U.S. Course.

Like most Mario games released around the time, the first player played as Mario, and the second player played as Luigi. At certain points during gameplay, the Mario Bros. are offered advice by their caddies, Princess Toadstool (Peach) and Princess Daisy. Another non-playable character was Mario's old nemesis Donkey Kong, who now works as an accountant securing the prize money for Mario and Luigi.

NES Open Tournament Golf is often thought to be nearly identical to the Famicom version Mario Open Golf based on the fact that they both feature identical graphics and gameplay. However, there are many differences between the two games. For starters, Mario Open Golf featured five playable courses whereas NES Open Tournament Golf only featured three. The background music between both games also differed, with the exception of few tracks that were used in both games.