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1998 golf video game
1998 video game
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.
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.
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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.
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Reception
The PC version received "favorable" reviews, while the PlayStation version received "average" reviews, according to the
review aggregation website
GameRankings .
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Next Generation called the former "a sharp golf game, compatible with last June's
PGA Tour Pro software updates and course discs."
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