- PGA Tour series
PGA Tour is the collective name of a series of
golf computer and video games published byElectronic Arts and later theirEA Sports sub-label from1990 to1998 , when EA began publishing their golf games with the endorsement ofTiger Woods . After "Tiger Woods '99" was released, subsequent titles were named "Tiger Woods PGA Tour ", and for the first time, regularly.The series were responsible for several innovations in the genre, such as the now standard three-click swing method, but unlike other games in the EA Sports label, the series were often shadowed by other competitors such as the "Jack Nicklaus" series, "Links", "
Microsoft Golf " or "The Golf Pro ".Games in the series
*PGA Tour Golf:*Originally released in
1990 forDOS computers,1991 for Mega Drive/Genesis,SNES andCommodore Amiga and1993 forSega Master System andGame Gear
*PGA Tour Golf II:*Released in1992 for the Mega Drive/Genesis
*PGA Tour Golf III:*Released in1994 for the Mega Drive/Genesis
*PGA Tour Golf 486:*Released in1994 for DOS personal computers, the name is a take onAccess Software 's "Links 386"
*PGA European Tour:*Originally released in1994 for DOS, Amiga and Mega Drive/Genesis,1995 for CD32 andGame Boy ,1996 for SNES andMicrosoft Windows and a2000 game of the same name for theNintendo 64
*PGA Tour 96:*Released in1995 for the Mega Drive/Genesis and the SNES (later also for the 3DO, Saturn and PlayStation Systems), it was the first game of the genre to use 3D courses, at the expense of an higher number of courses and golfers
*PGA Tour Pro:*Released in1997 for Windows; online play only
*PGA Tour Gold:*Released1998 for Windows; last title in the series before Tiger Woods' endorsement.External links
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* [http://www.genesiscollective.com/ShowPage.php?GameLink=996 Mega Drive/Genesis games page in Genesis Collective]
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