PGA Tour 96 - SNES Gameplay

PGA Tour 96

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Three holes of golf in PGA Tour 96 for the Super Nintendo (SNES). Actual console play. Not emulated. PGA Tour '96 on the SNES is NOT the same game as PGA Tour '96 on the Genesis. I suppose we should be thankful for that fact because PGA Tour '96 on the Genesis was awful. PGA Tour '96 on the SNES is instead a port of the PGA Tour III, released on the Genesis a year earlier. PGA Tour III on the Genesis was excellent, but unfortunately, nearly everything that made PGA Tour Golf III a success on the Genesis was lost in its translation to the SNES. For example, the hole fly-overs, the pro-player comments and the reverse angle views of the ball in flight have all been removed. One notable element, however, has been added to PGA Tour '96 on the SNES--extremely slow gameplay! Throughout the game, you must endure lengthy waits while the graphics are rendered. On the green, in particular, the hold-ups are agonizing. Apparently, the game makes use of an SA-1 coprocessor, but I can't see w...

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