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PGA Tour Golf II

System(s): Sega Mega Drive

Publisher: HeartBeat Corporation^[1]

Developer: HeartBeat Corporation^[2]

Licensor: Electronic Arts^[3], PGA Tour^[3], Tournament Players Club^[3], Polar Technology^[3]^[4]

Developer(s) of original games: Polygames

Sound driver: Electronic Arts/Rob Hubbard

Peripherals supported: HeartBeat Catalyst^[1]

Genre: Sports (golf)

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
US	1995^[3]

For the original version of the game, see PGA Tour Golf II.

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PGA Tour Golf II is a Sega Mega Drive fitness golf game developed and published by HeartBeat Corporation. A port of the 1992 Polygames title PGA Tour Golf II specifically designed to utilize the fitness sensor-integrated Mega Drive peripheral HeartBeat Catalyst^[1], it was released exclusively in the United States in 1995 in an extremely-limited run, and is one of the single-rarest commercially-available Sega Genesis games in existence.

History

Legacy

During a Portland Retro Gaming Expo sometime in the mid-2010s, a private collector in possession of PGA Tour Golf II (the YouTube user Vidja Gamer) met with game historian and preservationist Frank Cifaldi to finally dump the game's ROM.^[5]

Production credits

Uncredited

Conversion and additional programming: Rick Koenig

Source:

Developer resumes^[2]

Magazine articles

Main article: PGA Tour Golf II (Catalyst)/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Main article: PGA Tour Golf II (Catalyst)/Promotional material.

Physical scans

Mega Drive (US)
Cover
Cart PCB Error creating thumbnail: libgomp: Thread creation failed: Resource temporarily unavailable Manual

Technical information

Main article: PGA Tour Golf II (Catalyst)/Technical information.

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

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CRC32	3eff8b37
MD5	c0f0040844938b88b4ab5f318f6f5610
SHA-1	c9c18b389a9afc5f30ab5d457f8f72e1966ff1e6

1MB

1991-02

Cartridge (US)

External links

Sega Heartbeat Game Found - Sega Genesis Holy Grail!!!! video by Vidja Gamer at YouTube

References

PGA Tour Golf II (Catalyst)
	Main page \| Magazine articles \| Promotional material \| Region coding No results

HeartBeat Catalyst
Topics	Magazine articles \| Promotional material \| Personal Trainer \| HeartBeat Corporation
Games	NHLPA Hockey \| Outback Joey \| Outworld 2375 AD \| PGA Tour Golf II

[:File:SegaVisions_US_15.pdf_p110-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Sega Visions, "October/November 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 110

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 ==History==
 ===Legacy===
-During a Portland Retro Gaming Expo sometime in the mid-2010s, a private collector in possession of ''PGA Tour Golf II'' (the YouTube user [https://www.youtube.com/c/donny4182 Vidja Gamer]) met with game preservationist [[wikipedia:Frank Cifaldi|Frank Cifaldi]] to finally dump the game's ROM.{{ref|1=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9rEl_xtXy8}} Although reportedly a success, the ROM has not yet been released to the public.
+During a Portland Retro Gaming Expo sometime in the mid-2010s, a private collector in possession of ''PGA Tour Golf II'' (the YouTube user [https://www.youtube.com/c/donny4182 Vidja Gamer]) met with game historian and preservationist [[wikipedia:Frank Cifaldi|Frank Cifaldi]] to finally dump the game's ROM.{{ref|1=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9rEl_xtXy8}}
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