Golf
Golf is an Easter Egg game hidden in the Nintendo Switch firmware versions prior to 4.0, in tribute to games sole programmer Satoru Iwata. The game is a port of the NES game of the same name and was accessible…
Golf is a sport developed by HAL Laboratory, released 3 March 2017 on Nintendo Switch.
What Golf is
Golf is a sport game developed by HAL Laboratory and released in 2017. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Golf is an Easter Egg game hidden in the Nintendo Switch firmware versions prior to 4.0, in tribute to games sole programmer Satoru Iwata. The game is a port of the NES game of the same name and was accessible by changing the date to July 11, then mimicking Satoru Iwata's "Direct" movement using the Joy-Cons.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Golf launched on 3 March 2017, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda and NieR: Automata. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda, NieR: Automata.
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