It was hidden in the Nintendo Switch firmware as an Easter egg as a tribute to the game's programmer, the late Satoru Iwata.

[9] Nintendo's Wii game Captain Rainbow identifies the golfer as Ossan,[10] which happens to be one of the generic hero names during the development of Donkey Kong.

The game is a hidden Easter egg in the pre-4.0 firmware of the Nintendo Switch, in tribute to Satoru Iwata.

It can be accessed on the Switch home menu if the system clock is set to the July 11 memorial of Iwata's death, and then the user moves Joy-Con controllers to imitate the "Direct" hand gesture that Iwata popularized during his tenure as main host of Nintendo Direct presentations.

[21] The player-controlled character Ossan appeared in the 2008 Wii game Captain Rainbow where he is portrayed as a smelly middle-aged man who is terrible at golf.

[10] As part of HAMSTER Corporation's Arcade Archives series, Golf was released on Nintendo Switch on October 25, 2019.