Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf

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Tiger Woods 99: PGA Tour Golf
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Developer(s) Adrenalin Entertainment
Publisher(s) EA Sports
Series PGA Tour
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, PlayStation
ReleaseWindows
PlayStation
  • NA: November 23, 1998 [2]
  • EU: November 15, 1998
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Tiger Woods 99: PGA Tour Golf (also known as just Tiger Woods 99) is a sports video game developed by Adrenalin Entertainment and published by EA Sports for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation in 1998.

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Development

In mid-1997 EA Sports signed an exclusive deal with Tiger Woods to use his name and likeness on their line of golf games. EA Sports reportedly paid approximately $10 million (equivalent to $19 million in 2023) for the rights, which spanned several years and multiple gaming platforms. [3] The day after the deal was officially announced, the stock of EA Sports's parent company Electronic Arts went up 10 percent. [4]

Easter egg

The first 100,000 pressings of Tiger Woods 99 for the PlayStation contained an Easter egg. If the disc is loaded into a computer, directories for files of the game would appear along with a QuickTime file titled ZZDUMMY.DAT. When played, it is a VHS recording of 1995 The Spirit of Christmas short film, Jesus vs. Santa, by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, commonly recognized as a precursor to South Park . The episode was apparently sneaked onto the disc by an employee at Electronic Arts, and according to the metadata it was converted four days before being added to the disc. EA recalled these copies of the game a few months after it was released, calling the episode "objectionable to consumers", and subsequent versions did not contain the file. [5] [6]

Reception

The PC version received "favorable" reviews, while the PlayStation version received "average" reviews, according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. [7] [8] Next Generation called the former "a sharp golf game, compatible with last June's PGA Tour Pro software updates and course discs." [25]

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