All Star Tennis '99

All Star Tennis '99 is a simulation tennis game for the Nintendo 64, PlayStation, and Game Boy Color released in 1999, that was developed by Smart Dog and published by Ubi Soft. The featured player on the US and Europe versions is Michael Chang while in the French version the featured player is Yannick Noah who, has his name above the title as Yannick Noah All Star Tennis '99.[1] It was one of the first tennis games for the N64 and the only one for that system in the USA until Mario Tennis. It was preceded by Let's Smash/Centre Court Tennis in Japan and Europe, for the Nintendo 64, while being one of many tennis games on PlayStation and Game Boy Color.

All Star Tennis '99
European Nintendo 64 cover art, featuring Michael Chang and Jana Novotná
Developer(s)Smart Dog
Publisher(s)Ubi Soft
Platform(s)Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Game Boy Color
ReleasePlayStation
  • PAL: November 1, 1998
  • NA: August 31, 1999
  • JP: December 2, 1999
Nintendo 64
  • PAL: June 25, 1999
  • NA: August 31, 1999
Game Boy Color
  • PAL: June 25, 1999
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single player, multiplayer

Game Play

It offered standard simulation game play with singles, doubles and tournament mode, as well as World Tour mode consisting of 11 international competitions.[2] In addition to standard moves the player can turn on an option for three specialty moves,[3] two of which are unique to the character that they are using,[4] each time a player scores a point they are given 1 of 3 energy points that can be used to perform one of the two unique moves for their character. There is a Bomb Tennis mode that makes a bomb appear where the ball touches down, if the player is caught by its explosion, it causing the character to be knocked off their feet for a few seconds.

Reception
Reception
Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
GameRankings55.47%[5]
Review scores
PublicationScore
AllGame[6]
EGM5.37/10[7]
Game Informer5.5/10[8]
GamePro[9]
GameRevolutionD[10]
GameSpot5.1/10[11]
IGN7/10[12]
Next Generation[13]
Nintendo Power6.9/10[14]

The game was met with very mixed reception, as GameRankings gave the Nintendo 64 version a score of 55.47%.[5]

Jeffrey Adam Young reviewed the N64 version of the game for Next Generation, rating it one star out of five, and stated that "For tennis purists, this game is a net loss - for gamers looking for a good time, the control issues make the game unacceptable."[13]

References
  1. http://www.gamekult.com/tout/jeux/fiches/J000069968.html
  2. "All Star Tennis '99". Nintendo Power. 120: 81. May 1999.
  3. "All Star Tennis '99". Nintendo Power. 120: 82. May 1999.
  4. Q64 (magazine), Summer 1999, page 51
  5. "All Star Tennis 99 for Nintendo 64". GameRankings. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  6. Nguyen, Cal. "All Star Tennis 99 (N64) - Review". AllGame. Archived from the original on November 14, 2014. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  7. EGM staff (August 1999). "All Star Tennis '99 (N64)". Electronic Gaming Monthly (121): 125. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  8. Reiner, Andrew (August 1999). "All Star Tennis '99 (N64)". Game Informer (76): 65. Archived from the original on June 1, 2000. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  9. Air Hendrix (August 1999). "All Star Tennis ['99] (N64)". GamePro (121): 99. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  10. Dr. Moo (October 1999). "All-Star Tennis '99 Review (N64)". Game Revolution. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  11. Smith, Josh (July 13, 1999). "All Star Tennis '99 Review (N64)". GameSpot. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  12. Boulding, Aaron (September 15, 1999). "All Star Tennis '99 (N64)". IGN. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  13. Young, Jeffrey Adam (October 1999). "Finals". Next Generation. Vol. 2 no. 2. Imagine Media. p. 109.
  14. "All Star Tennis '99 (Review)". Nintendo Power. 120: 127. May 1999. Retrieved December 9, 2014.


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