1988 · SNK · Sports

Fighting Golf

Nintendo console exclusive

Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf is a Golf Sim game, developed and published by SNK, which was released in 1988.

Released: 1988
Platforms: Arcade NES
Genres: Sports
Developers: SNK
Publishers: SNK
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Country: Japan

About

Fighting Golf is a 1988 golf video game developed and published by SNK for arcades. It was ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System the same year, which was titled Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf in North America.

Keywords

golf
celebrity tie-in
box art - real photos

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Fighting Golf as the ninth most successful table arcade unit of April 1988.

GameRevolution ranked this game number 23 on its list of the "50 Worst Video Game Names of All Time".

Legacy

The game was parodied in the season 7 episode of The Simpsons titled "Marge Be Not Proud", with the game in the episode referred to by the Comic Book Guy as "Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge". A playable, fan-made version of Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge was released on June 15, 2020.

Hamster Corporation released the arcade version as part of their Arcade Archives series for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, as well as their Arcade Archives 2 series for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in October 2026.