PGA Tour Golf III on Sega Megadrive

[Hindleyak]

Oooooh bonus review! Nice. Did you try the directional controls on the matchup screen? Might be like most other EA games where you have to select which team you wanna control. But it shouldn't be in the middle by default like that! Programming fail.

[SteveBenway]

@Hindleyak Yes, I've uploaded a full video of the game since doing this one :)

[Roadstar1602]

LOL @ the broken baseball cartridge.

[markvergeer]

Steve whenever I insert this cart into my Megadrive I think I can't help but think of your commentary on this game!

[bobmarleyluke]

Just remembered I have this, will definitely have to give this a go

[17R3W]

6:36 is that 3D stuff in real time? or is that pre-rendered?

[TheSymbianFreak]

@17R3W id guess 3d

[SteveBenway]

@17R3W It's a combination of polygons for the ground and scaled sprites for the trees.

[17R3W]

I never really understood a Golf video game.

I mean, it works on the Wii, but all the other games seem to be, "hit the button twice" and a golf animation with run.

Could just be me though.

[LeShark75]

Class game for the time. I would play this alot until Actua Golf came along on the PS1.

[alecjahn]

The post-hole music is really calming. It's like, "Lets all sit down, take a deep breath, and reflect on our performance.

Pack up, go home and have a beer? I'll just stay home anyway!

Golf games can be really surprisingly satisfying - none of us clots would ever be able to even remotely make any of those shots but we sure can hit buttons on a controller and watch for on-screen cues!

[ReplayRetro]

i've never ever liked golf games of golf for that matter, yet i was always bought them for various systems as a kid. however this doesnt look like a bad game really, fairly playable and i'm sure with a few drunk mates it could be a laugh

[AtsumaKarin]

Lol! As ever, some high quality playing, insane production values coupled with the assurance that things will run smoothly at all times.

Err... :D

Re: Baseball, it's either a faulty cartridge (which seems probable) OR: when you have the screen with the controller on, try moving it to one of the 2 teams. You have that in FIFA (and possibly all of their sports games, IDK) on the same console, perhaps the game thought you were in demo mode as a result of not choosing your team?

Good SWILL! :D

[Croooow111]

The baseball bonus footage at the end was hilarious. EA always made their sports game menus really confusing to navigate.

It looks to me that the reason the game kept "resetting" is because you didn't select which team you wanted to control while blazing through the menus. It was the screen with the red guy and blue guy looking at each other. The controller icon was left in the middle indicating the CPU was controlling both teams which lead to a spectator game.

[Croooow111]

@Croooow111 The game would then exit out of spectator mode when you hit a button. It's a pretty confusing menu system and it's one that EA has used for years on their sports games. What's really crap is that it does a poor job of showing what your selecting.

[STONEYKAT1]

GREAT JOB STEVE. I LOVE WAKING UP IN THE MORNING DRINKING MY RED BULL AND WATCHING YOU PLAY GAMES FROM THE US THAT MAKE NO SENSE TO EVEN MOST AMERICANS INCLUDING ME. YOU ARE ONE FUNNY GUY. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!! 

[Andyc18]

LMFAO, loved the Baseball bit at the end, maybe the game kept going into demo mode because it hadn't registered that you pressed buttons when the title screen started, that's the only explanation I can think of for that!

[TheSymbianFreak]

@Andyc18 na i know what the problem was and sent him a message on how to fix it

[Retr0Rewind]

LMAO at the baseball....it was like groundhog day!!! Great PGA video too.

[AfroedNinja]

That golf music is so awesome!! :P

There should be a Happy Gilmore mode :)

Love the baseball game intro!! Apparently you did too lol!! Too funny!!! xD

[mrbassman25]

ahhh, i loved these games, used to play 2 player against my dad all the time, could never last the full 18 holes though. memories :)

cheers uncle Steve !! :-)

[mathowlett]

May I recommend World Class Leaderboard for some hilarious Megadrive speech fun !!

"Looks like he..... hit the tree Jim.."

Priceless !!

[wrestletube1]

Number 3 now. Only one you hadn't done was number 2 of this series now.

[JASONMOORE87]

that baseball game LOL

"thats fucking stupid"

[XFile2708]

Not a bad game this one matey - I much preferred the older golf games like this than the ones they knock out today... lol

[SteveBenway]

@XFile2708 Yup, when 16 bit golf is this good, there doesn't seem to be a need for a modern version with lots of bells and whistles :)

[SteveBenway]

@xTHExSTIGx Gold on 16 bit systems just makes so much sense, where it doesn't appeal to me at all on modern kit.

I'm glad you saw the bonus feature. It wasn't really something I could use as a full video, but it was too amusing to waste :D

[SteveBenway]

@SteveBenway Gold? I mean golf... lol

[PSI236]

Can't remember if it was 2 or 3 on the Megadrive, but I played that game a lot. But my favorite golf game is probably NES Open. I bet the modern games are too complicated now, a bit like FIFA.

[SteveBenway]

@PSI236 I haven't even looked at any modern games myself. I get the same impression as you... probably too complicated. That, and I tend not to use my PS3 for relaxing games like golf.

[OnechanbaraWii]

@PSI236 Right on. I have alot of fun with NES Open, back in the day I could not find a cart for it, Golf (1986NA) was the a game my friends & I would play a lot in the 90's. Like in tennis the main character looked more like Jump-Man unlike Mario. Fun games It is still a past-time of mine.

[ImperialProductions]

I think I know what the issue was with the baseball game. You weren't selecting what team you wanted to play as, which made the game run the match in demo mode. Hence the restart when you pressed a button.

[SteveBenway]

@ImperialProductions Ahhhh.... that sounds reasonable. I'll have to have another go at that.

Thanks for the tip.... and I'm pleased that you saw the little bonus feature. I figured most people would exit before it started :D

[OnechanbaraWii]

@SteveBenway Ya noticed it to, at 10:07 I think You need to move the controller Icon left or right to choose the side your on. or the game go in to demo. The golf game brought back some memories, I never did buy it. :`( "It's in the Game"

[ImperialProductions]

"I don't wanna punch it, I wanna hit it with me stick!"

Priceless!

[SteveBenway]

@ImperialProductions *grins*

This game turned out to be very conducive to talking nonsense :D

[a3HeadedMonkey]

If the wind is 16mph to the right, you should probably aim to the left a bit Steve. :)

[SteveBenway]

@a3HeadedMonkey Quite probably, but that would require me to pay attention ;)