Hal's Hole in One Golf

Hal's Hole in One Golf
North American box art
Developer(s)	HAL Laboratory
Publisher(s)	HAL Laboratory
Composer(s)	Jun Ishikawa
Series	Hole in One
Platforms	Super NES
Release date(s)
Genre(s)	Traditional golf simulator
Mode(s)	Single-player Multiplayer

HAL's Hole in One Golf, known in Japan as Jumbo Ozaki no Hole In One (ジャンボ尾崎のホールインワン, lit. "Jumbo Ozaki's Hole in One Golf"), is a Super NES video game that was released in 1991.

Summary

During the mid-1980s, various Hole in One video games were released in Japan by HAL Laboratory 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, who has played golf on a professional basis since 1973.

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, in which case the player is in a competitive match against Hal. 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 wooden clubs. Wind speeds are shown in meters per second. Water hazards notifications appear in big gray letters.

In addition to stroke and match play, players can obtain passwords that allow spectacular shots to be re-enacted as if they were the spectator (eagles, holes in one, and double eagles). Beginners can learn gameplay strategies from watching expert players while they use their hard-earned passwords. Mode 7 effects permits the usage of elevation in certain camera angles.

Reception

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One of the courses in the game.

Allgame gave Hal's Hole in One Golf a score of 3.5 stars out of a possible 5.

See also

• List of Super Famicom and Super NES golf games