All Star Tennis '99
All Star Tennis '99 is a Nintendo 64 sports game developed by Smart Dog. It centers on local multiplayer or cooperative interaction, sport controls, and shifts between attack and defense, with controls, information, and pacing arranged around the analog stick, directional pad, A/B buttons, C buttons, and Z trigger.
- AI score · out of 10
- 5.7 / 10
About this game
All Star Tennis '99 is a Nintendo 64 sports game centered on local multiplayer or cooperative interaction, sport controls, and shifts between attack and defense. Matches, challenges, and tournament goals give sessions clear boundaries, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make its immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Players, venues, motion recognition, and score feedback establish the match atmosphere, while 3D scenes, fog, textures, and cartridge audio need to preserve target readability within limited memory and television output. The genre-specific limitation is that opponent ai, control precision, motion recognition, and period-specific rosters can affect consistency. Platform conditions also include camera control, stick precision, Controller Pak saves, Rumble Pak support, Expansion Pak requirements, and four-player setup can affect original-hardware use. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features from other editions.
Collected in series
All Star Tennis is Ubisoft’s tennis series about serving, building rallies and finding space for a winning shot. Professional players and different court surfaces give its matches variety, whether you want a quick contest or a longer tournament run.
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AI review
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Bomb Tennis novelty, weakened by N64 timing and movement.
The N64 version of All Star Tennis ’99 mixes conventional matches with a stranger idea: Bomb Tennis. Eight licensed players, special shots and the novelty mode give it talking points beyond a plain court simulation. Ordinary rallies expose weaker foundations. Slices and other strokes do not differ enough, shot placement is limited, and an opponent can often be beaten by remaining safely on the baseline. A contemporary N64 review also describes swing response that alternates unpredictably between immediate and delayed, while the analog stick behaves more like a crude walk-or-run switch than a smooth movement control. A sport dependent on position and timing suffers from both. Far-court polygon players flicker, the soundscape is thin, and quirky commentary restores only some character. The extra mode can still amuse, but it cannot fully compensate for unreliable basic tennis. This judgment concerns the original Nintendo 64 cartridge, not the separate PlayStation edition or modern emulation.
Strengths
- Special mode and players add light variety.
Weaknesses
- Baseline dominance and unreliable N64 input.
Who it is for: Players curious about eccentric, rough-edged tennis.
Play notes: Original N64 only; PS1 version remains separate.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Novelty mode cannot fix weak opponent play. | Reviewed | 5.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Strokes and court positions lack useful distinction. | Reviewed | 5.9 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Presentation is quirky but visually noisy. | Reviewed | 5.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension N64 timing and analog movement are inconsistent. | Reviewed | 5.2 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Smart Dog
- Publisher
- Ubisoft
- Release date
- 1999
- Platforms
- Nintendo 64
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Sports · Primary genre
- Tags
- Short Sessions3D GraphicsReplayablePlayer versus PlayerThird PersonPick-up and PlayFast-pacedLocal Co-opSports-based PlaySolo-friendly
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- MultiplayerSingle player
- Perspectives
- Third person
Release editions
- PlayStationWorldwide1998
- Nintendo 64Worldwide1999
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