NES Open Tournament Golf

NES Open Tournament Golf (known as Mario Open Golf in Japan) is an NES game featuring Mario characters. As the name of the game implies, it is a golf game and was one of the first golfing games in the Mario series. In the American version of the game, the graphics and soundtrack has slightly changed. The Japanese version of the game features different playable courses and characters. Although the Japan Course and UK Course are also playable courses in North America version they do not contain the same holes. For example, hole 1 in the Australia Course is hole 9 in the US Course. The game does not take place in the Mushroom Kingdom and instead takes place on Earth, or the "real world". The levels are Japan, Australia, France, the United Kingdom and the United States.

A version of this game was made for the Nintendo PlayChoice-10 in America, called Mario's Open Golf. This game has also been released on the Virtual Console of the Wii for 500 Wii Points.

Playable

 * Mario
 * Luigi
 * Steve (North America version only)
 * Mark (North America version only)
 * Tony
 * Billy

Non-playable

 * Princess Toadstool
 * Princess Daisy
 * Donkey Kong
 * Toad

Cameos

 * Monty Mole (On Box Artwork)

Japanese version

 * Japan Course
 * Australia Course
 * France Course
 * Hawaii Course
 * UK Course
 * Extra Course

North American and European versions

 * US Course
 * Japan Course
 * UK Course

Other information

 * Princess Toadstool is Mario's caddy, while Princess Daisy is Luigi's caddy.
 * This is the first appearance of Daisy outside of Super Mario Land, where she first appeared, and her first appearance in color.
 * It is also the first time Daisy is associated with Luigi.
 * This is the first and only NES game where Peach is depicted with blonde hair in game. While Daisy is also depicted as blonde on the title screen, due to a limited color, she is properly a brunette in game).
 * Toad appears whenever there is an O.B., and with a blue flag, he tells the player there is an O.B.
 * Donkey Kong tells the player how much money they have, and he keeps it.

Tournament Roster
In the Club House mode in the game, there is a setting called the Tournament Roster. Here the player can change all of the player's names, just like they'd change their own name (which is Mario by default). Here are all the 36 default names on the Tournament Roster.

All of the names starting from Iwata to Uemura are names of the people who worked on the game.

Staff
NES Open Tournament Golf was a coproduction between Nintendo R&D 2 and HAL Laboratory. Kenji Miki (director of the original Golf) was the director. The game was Satoru Iwata's first experience in developing a game "from start to finish". The title was also Eiji Aonuma's (credited as a sprite designer) very first work in the video game industry.

Trivia

 * This is the only game where Peach never wears her crown at all, even though the illustration of her kissing Mario depicts her with her crown on her head. However, in future sports titles she wears the crown.
 * On a side-note, Daisy did not wear her crown in sports titles until Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour and onwards since her (and Peach's) redesign since Mario Party 4.

References in later games

 * WarioWare: Twisted!: A microgame appears based off of this game.
 * Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U: One of Mario's alternate costumes is his outfit from this game.