Hal's Hole in One Golf
Encyclopedia
HAL's Hole in One Golf - known in Japan as - is a Super NES
video game that was released in 1991.
for the NEC PC88
and MSX
. The Super Famicom version can be considered as the sequel to the Family Computer
video game Jumbo Ozaki no Hole in One Professional released in 1988. It was named after legendary Japanese golfer Jumbo Ozaki
. He played golf on a professional basis from 1973 to 2002.
The game is essentially a standard 18-hole golf
video game, which is played from a top-down perspective. Players can compete in stroke play
with up to four players, or match play
against a friend or the computer. Players can enter up to four characters (letters and numbers) for their name. When playing against the computer, the player will play against an opponent that uses metal
clubs, which hit farther than the standard wood
en clubs. Wind speeds are shown in meters per second. Water hazards notifications appear in big gray letters.
In addition to stroke and match play, the player can obtain passwords that allow you to replay any spectacular shots that he makes (eagles, holes in one
, and double eagle
s). Mode 7
effects permits the usage of elevation
in certain camera angles.
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia , and South America between 1990 and 1993. In Japan and Southeast Asia, the system is called the , or SFC for short...
video game that was released in 1991.
Summary
During the mid-1980s, various Hole in One video games were released in Japan by HAL LaboratoryHAL Laboratory
is a Japanese video game developer that was founded on February 21, 1980. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo. Its name comes from the HAL 9000 computer in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The company is most famous for its character Kirby, the protagonist of the eponymous game series, as well as...
for the NEC PC88
NEC PC-8801
The NEC PC-8801 was an early Zilog Z80-based computer exclusively released in Japan, where it became very popular, by NEC Corporation in 1981. It was informally called the "PC-88"....
and MSX
MSX
MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation...
. The Super Famicom version can be considered as the sequel to the Family Computer
Nintendo Entertainment System
The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987...
video game Jumbo Ozaki no Hole in One Professional released in 1988. It was named after legendary Japanese golfer Jumbo Ozaki
Masashi Ozaki
is a Japanese professional golfer. Ozaki is often known as Jumbo Ozaki on account of his height and length off the tee. He featured in the top ten of the Official World Golf Rankings for almost 200 weeks between 1989 and 1998...
. He played golf on a professional basis from 1973 to 2002.
The game is essentially a standard 18-hole golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
video game, which is played from a top-down perspective. Players can compete in stroke play
Stroke play
Stroke play, also known as medal play, is a scoring system in the sport of golf. It involves counting the total number of strokes taken on each hole during a given round, or series of rounds...
with up to four players, or match play
Match play
Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; this is as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes...
against a friend or the computer. Players can enter up to four characters (letters and numbers) for their name. When playing against the computer, the player will play against an opponent that uses metal
Metal
A metal , is an element, compound, or alloy that is a good conductor of both electricity and heat. Metals are usually malleable and shiny, that is they reflect most of incident light...
clubs, which hit farther than the standard wood
Wood
Wood is a hard, fibrous tissue found in many trees. It has been used for hundreds of thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression...
en clubs. Wind speeds are shown in meters per second. Water hazards notifications appear in big gray letters.
In addition to stroke and match play, the player can obtain passwords that allow you to replay any spectacular shots that he makes (eagles, holes in one
Hole in one
In golf, a hole in one or hole-in-one is when a player hits the ball directly from the tee into the cup with one shot. This is most possible on a par 3 hole. Longer hitters have accomplished this feat on shorter par 4 holes...
, and double eagle
Double Eagle
A Double Eagle is a gold coin of the United States with a denomination of $20. . The coins are made from a 90% gold and 10% copper alloy....
s). Mode 7
Mode 7
Mode 7 is a graphics mode on the Super NES video game console that allows a background layer to be rotated and scaled on a scanline-by-scanline basis to create many different effects. The most famous of these effects this can create is the application of a perspective effect on a background layer...
effects permits the usage of elevation
Elevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....
in certain camera angles.
See also
- List of Super Famicom and Super Nintendo golf games