NCAA FINAL FOUR '99 offers three gameplay modes: Exhibition, Tournament, and a 30-game Season. The rules can be configured to your preferences, whether it's arcade or simulation. This affects which fouls get called and determines whether or not your players feel the effects of fatigue. You can also choose from a variety of controller configurations, difficulty settings, game lengths, and camera angles to alter the game. And of course, everything is rendered in 3D, which creates the feeling that you're right in the middle of the action. There are 250 Division I teams available, making it easy to find your favorite squad on the roster. The sound, which includes play-by-play commentary, ball thumps, and sneaker squeaks, works well to get you pumped up and involved in the game. You can also play with up to eight friends (with a multitap) in the multiplayer game.
With a fresh dusting of new powder on the mountain, lock on your board and head down the slope for an incredible downhill experience. Feel the speed and the icy wind on your face as you carve through killer courses and obstacles. Trick'n Snowboarder is a shred-fest of sheer speed and air-catching tricks. Race across the world on 10 international courses in 4 different modes of play.
Elf Bowling is a computer game developed by NStorm and released in 1998. In the game the player, as Santa Claus, attempts to knock down elves who are arranged like bowling pins.
Backyard Football is a football video game released by Humongous Entertainment in 1999. The game was the third Backyard game released by Humongous Entertainment, preceded by Backyard Soccer and Backyard Baseball. It is the first of all of the Backyard Sports series to consist of the Backyard kids and professional players as kids.
989 Studios makes the race for the best hockey title a bit more interesting. Like EA Sports, 989 Studios is building on a previous title to make it better. The game features New Jersey Devil announcer, Mike Emrick and ESPN's Darren Pang providing play-by-play; graphic and control upgrade; TV-style gameplay; in-depth stat tracking, season play, exhibition games, and more.
J.League Tactics Soccer is a soccer game for the Nintendo 64. It was released only in Japan in 1999. The game has officially licensed players and teams from Japan's J.League.
Pocket Tennis a simple tennis game with two play modes: Exhibition and Tournament.
Exhibition is a single match against computer or human opponent (requires link cable). There do exist eight player characters with different skills (human player must select one of those eight characters too) and four (five in the color version) different courts. Also amount of sets per game can be selected (1, 3 or 5).
Tournament is only against computer. Human player can pick his/her character but not the computer opponent. Also selection of courts and amount of sets is missing. Three games will be played: quarter and semifinals and of course the final
Actua Pool is a sports simulation video game developed by British company Gremlin Interactive as part of their highly successful Actua Sports series of sport simulators of the mid-to-late 1990s. Actua Pool, a pool (pocket billiards) was originally released on the Microsoft Windows platform and the Sony PlayStation home console in 1999; these versions were also published under the name Pool Shark. The game was very well received, praised for its realistic physics engine and challenging AI opponents, although the game spawned a sequel which was not as successful. In 2007, Actua Pool was ported to the Nintendo DS handheld game console, under the title Underground Pool in North America.
World Football 98 is a soccer game, released just before the 1998 Football World Cup.
It featured Kiko Narváez, the Spanish national team striker, prominently in the Kiko World Football version. The game was also later distributed as a gift when buying Danone yogurts under the name of Danone World Football where it was an ad game, as in the break between halves advertisements are shown.
The Patrick Polly Swooshball Challenge is a game with a mix of Pong and Tennis.
The game concept is based on a major commercial campaign by Candelia, one of the leading candy manufacturers in Scandinavia. Released as freeware, people had to send in 5 scanned barcodes from bags of Polly in order to receive the game.